New York City - Simcha Felder Gets Promoted In Council

New York City - The new City Council Speaker Christine Quinn doles out some surprising assignments for committee appointments.
Like the designation of Brooklyn's Simcha Felder as head of the Governmental Operations Committee.
Under its former chair, Bill Perkins of Harlem, the committee took on everyone from the police commissioner, over civil liberties violations, to the mayor, over diversity in hiring. Those are unlikely targets for Felder, whose Borough Park district is so conservative with his heavily Orthodox Jewish constituents.