Who NYers Are Liking For Mayor

A poll shows that Mayor Bloomberg would lose to Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx Borough President, in next year's mayoral election. People favored Ferrer 53% to 42% for Bloomberg; since the Mayor's support comes mainly from whites and Manhattan, we can expect the Mayor to have more events in the outer boroughs. What's interesting is that even though they don't support him, 74% of those polled in the Marist College Public Opinion Poll believed the mayor was working hard. In other hypothetical races, the Mayor would have been tied if running against Manhattan BEEP C. Virginia Fields; Mayor B would beat City Council Speaker Gifford Miller (though with margin of error, it's more even) and Congressman Anthony Weiner. Gothamist thinks it's telling that, from the looks of this poll, it's the candidates who are less high-profile and in the news that are compelling to voters; we expect a shift when the rubber hits the road.

And, unsurprisingly, the City Council is overriding that Mayor's veto to allow more public funds to be spent by candidates running against wealthy opponents. But, in the good news column for Mayor B, the Marist poll showed his approval rating was up to 46% from 42% and the Independent Budget Office said the city's deficit was about $800 million less than expected, thanks to the strength of the real estate market and Wall Street.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 16, 2004 8:38 AM

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kol nomis

Sorry about your father's passing away.

You lived with your mother when you went to school. There is nothing wrong with that at all--I never said that there was aything wrong with that.

My point is...there's no way one could've afforded full time school and housing on a night-time job's wages.

simon lok

kol, actually, i paid for my own education. i worked a night job to get though school. my father passed away and I also needed to support my mother. i was able to do this without handouts so please dont talk about what you dont know.

kol nomis

Please. Who paid for simon lok's college education in order for him to move up and have that high-paying job: His parents, a grant, or a student loan.

The parents paying for college is...welfare mentality (aka welfare for their child, because the child is receiving something he didn't actually earn). Nothing wrong with that, but what if the child has poor parents?

Oh wait, there's the grant. The grant was made possible by...welfare mentality.

The student loan was made possible by co-signing with...his parents (their credit was good because of their previously built wealth--aka, welfare for the child).

Welfare is not only for moochers and crackheads. All of us, rich or poor, need someone to lean on at certain points in our lives. Life would literally be impossible without this basic human interaction.

simon lok

You guys are ridiculous; it's not the mayor's job to support your lifestyle. If you cant afford to be in the city, move up in your career, educate yourself, or simply move elsewhere. This whole welfare mentality has to stop; NYC is already the most generous city in the country in terms of support services. And the mayor does not set the pricing for housing, the market does. Please.

honey2

mike has disdain for ordinary new yorkers--those city workers who make this place run: the public school teachers, cops, firefighters, transit workers. He doesn't believe in having three branches of government, and he has NO IDEA how hard it is to rent an apt in the city on a low inocme. he appointed a homeless commissioner who HATES the homeless and he supports her truly diabolical plans (keep reading the newspaper in the next month--you will see what I mean. He appoints a welfare commissioner who hates people on welfare- and who denied her own background as a kid in a large family who couldn't have made it through childhood as well as she did without the years of public benfits her mother received. Down with MIKE.

Blike Moomberg

What exactly was his generally good job? Can anyone name five good decisions he's made? Seriously! Some people like him but can't even count on one hand the reasons why they like him.

Still for every good decision he may have made, he's counteracted them with many more bad decisions. And some of those bad decisions are unforgivable.

Bloomberg seems to always forget about one interest group in particular: New Yorkers.

simon lok

You might be right, but I hope he wins. I think he's been doing a generally good job and as a non-career politician I think he’s been doing what he feels is right for the city, which may not agree with all the various interest groups, but that is close to impossible on most issues.