The nation's largest municipality is in the middle of the race to succeed Michael Bloomberg. On the Democratic side, the establishment candidate, Christine Quinn, is a protege of Bloomberg and would become the nation's highest profile openly gay politician were she to win. Oft-discredited Anthony Wiener was a strong progressive voice in congress before becoming a running joke. Bill Thompson is a candidate who's primary appeal appears to be his skin color. Bill DeBlasio is an unreconstructed liberal whose son has a rocking afro. Quinn was the clear front runner until Wiener thrusted to the lead upon entry. DeBlasio seems to have won over a large segment of Wiener's voters and appears to be cresting before the September 10th primary. On the Republican side, which apparently is going to happen even if no one outside of Staten Island wants it to, there are evidently three candidates. Joe Lhota, a deputy mayor under Rudolph Guiliani (Fascist-Brooklyn) and formerly ran the authority responsible for our wretched transport system. There are two other crackpots running against him who's names do not deserve to be mentioned.
Lhota was in charge of the MTA during Sandy, and was smart enough to make sure the trains were parked on high ground. You may think that's friggin' obvious, but New Jersey Transit proved otherwise. So there's that.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08...ing-lead-among-democrats-in-nyc-mayoral-race/ I think this ends up in a runoff
When the 1% are are whining, you know you're doing something right. http://gothamist.com/2013/09/04/wealthy_people_frightened_of_bill_d.php
I could have used that universal pre school two years ago. We would have been able to increase our household income by around 30% if my chick didn't have to stay home. My only issue is where do you put all the extra kids? Cunty ass PS 321 is already running classes out of trailers and God's School, PS 154 is currently subdividing it's multi media room (because we don't have a gym or an auditorium so we cram it all into one) to provide an art room to keep up with the demand for space
You mayor is dope but he is complete dogcrap at golf. Followed him in the pro-am at the Barclays with a couple of buddies. It really pissed Bubba Watson off.
Saw both Quinn and DiBlasio within 15 minutes of each other today in Brooklyn. He is stupid tall and she is oddly sexy
I'm pretty sure Bloomberg is a mole for the DeBlasio campaign at this point. You can pretty much imagine him with a monocle and a colossal bag of money in his lap as he gave this wackadoodle interview. http://nymag.com/news/politics/bloomberg/in-conversation-2013-9/
I dare Joe Lhota to go around campaigning with Michael Bloomberg on one side of him and Rudolph Giuliani on the other. The N.Y. Post thinks that would be a slam-dunk for the guy. As if anyone wants a 4th term of Bloomy or a 3rd term of Rudy. They can look at how the late, great Ed Koch's endorsement of Quinn turned out for her. GO, BILL!!!
I think you're overestimating the dislike for Bloomberg. Polls showed that the candidate whose voters were most anti-Bloomberg was Thompson, not DiBlasio. Bloomberg the candidate and Bloomberg the ex-mayor are different.
"Job creators"! Ah, that takes me back. The Wall Street Journal today quoted an investment banker saying that "taxing the rich" is "retrograde and crazy." Incoherent, but at least he wasn't relying on a talking point.
Still no final result on the Democratic side. DiBlasio preliminarily has the 40 percent he needs, but there are still votes to count. How insane is it that in 2013, we still have the world's dumbest voting system and that NYC may spend money to have a run-off instead of using that money for any other purpose.