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Mayor Bloomberg goes to Berlin to forward the city's Olympic bid, and what happens? His "friend," former Senator and current New School President Bob Kerry tells the NY Times that he might just run for mayor. Kerrey is annoyed with the Mayor's lack of success in getting Washington D.C. to fork over substantial Homeland Security funds to secure NYC and the Mayor's reluctance to really tangle with the Republican-controlled Congress. Bloomberg had asked Kerrey to head the Democrats for Bloomberg group, and Kerrey reportedly accepted. And Kerrey did credit the Mayor's handling of the school system and trying to calm race relations.
Now, Gothamist likes a great election year match up, and Lord knows, it'd be nice to have one this year, and while we do like Kerrey (anyone who says, "You know me: I am just crazy enough to do this" and is characterized as being crazy tends to be okay with us). But Kerrey's complaint about NYC needing more money from DC (okay, Kerrey's not a fan of the West Side Stadium, but that's not unusual as few New Yorkers are), while valid, does not make an effective NYC mayoral platform. And if he wants to slam the amount of success NYC has had in getting federal funds, then he should complain about Senators Schumer and Clinton and eye running for Senate. If Kerry campaigned, he'd have to explain what a recent NYC transplant was doing in the race. Here's the NY Times quote that addresses that:
"The hard truth of this is I became a New Yorker on the 11th of September, 2001. Now it's in my gene code. I lived here for four years, but thanks to Sept. 11, this is now my city. I care about what happens to it."We're sure that if Kerrey did run, he'd go on and on about how his son was born on September 10, 2001, too; it's on his 9-11 Commission bio. Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf says that Kerrey's announcement won't have much weight, since he's pretty unknown outside of "a small group of people who live in Manhattan." Democratic mayoral hopeful frontrunner Fernando Ferrer issued a statement saying, "I agree with Bob Kerrey's criticism of Mayor Bloomberg, and that's the reason I'm running."
Kerrey would have to face his admission that he killed women and children in Vietnam if he ran. And here are Kerrey's bios from Congress and New School; Kerrey said that even though he signed a new contract with the New School, he could break it. Poor, poor New School.
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We already have idiots on the national level trying to scare us into electing them with the terrorism card. We don't need that kind of nonsense brought in New York. It's bad enough we are in the crosshairs. We don't need some political condidate belittling the issue by using it to get elected.
Run Kerry Run! He was the only voice of reason on the 9/11 commission and is dead on right about NYC not getting its fair share.
And Kerry is as much a New Yorker as Bloomberg is a Republican. If Bloomberg can get elected on that, the fact that Kerry hasn't lived here for too long shouldn't be a factor.
He has got my vote if he decides to run.
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"The hard truth of this is I became a New Yorker on the 11th of September, 2001"?
Great. Bad enough the Republicans do it...
I'd vote for him in a second. He came across as the true voice of reason in the 9/11 commission, and if we didn't want non-New Yorkers to run for office, we wouldn't have let Hillary win.
Maybe then we would have a mayor who didn't spend all his time trying to get events like the Republican convention and the Olympics to come here, which most New Yorkers are dreading.
Poor, poor New School indeed. He is the only thing that school has going for it. Without him, it might as well become the equivalent of University of Phoenix online.
Kerry seemed like a reasonable idea for mayor until he got on the 9/11 commission and started exploiting the tragedy by wrapping himself up as Mr. 9/11. If he can shape up the new school I'd be more than impressed. I know it's hard for Kerry to be an outsider on the political cocktail party circuit, but storming the election with 9/11 fear chatter is not constructive. As appalling as the other candidates are I don't think any of them has had the bad taste to try to exploit 9/11.
I'll always like the comment he made about then-fellow Senator and always extreme right-wing nutjob Rick Santorum. It was something along the lines of "Santorum. Isn't that Latin for asshole?"
nice pivot, after he was promoting democrat's for bloomberg. anyway, with the work bloomberg is doing in the outer boroughs (which have been neglected for year) I'm sticking with the mayor.
that should read: neglected for years
I thought Kerry alread ran for President and now is running for mayor. WTF? And how some sometimes he is Bob Kerry and othertimes John Kerry. LOL. OMG do you think they might be two of them?