Betsy Gotbaum enables Carol Anne Gotbaum’s alcoholism even after she dies. Message to the Gotbaum family: learn from your mistakes and move on.
Enabler of the month:
Betsy Gotbaum, the New York City's "public advocate" and likely 2009 mayoral candidate who is Carol Anne Gotbaum's stepmother-in-law, said the Gotbaum family believes Carol Anne "seems to have been manhandled" by Phoenix police during her arrest at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport and are contemplating a lawsuit for wrongful death. According to an eyewitness, Carol Anne became irate and out of control while repeatedly screaming "I'm not a terrorist" after she was not allowed to board an airplane for arriving late. Police of course (it's an airport for God's sake!) intervened and handcuffed her. They left her alone for five or 10 minutes in a holding cell at the airport, where she apparently managed to strangle ...
