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Gothamist didn't know if it was some sort of subtle threat to voters' ears or just some way to show how the Internet! seriously! rocks!, but we have to admit that we got a kick of the NY Times' story about how City Council Speaker and wannabe mayor Gifford Miller love love loves to sing. The NY Times also has a slideshow with audio that has Giffy belting out some tunes, and while he's not the worst singer, we understand why the Times, in the print edition, noted that the audio was "Not Available in Stores." Miller mentions at various points that he's not allowed to sing at home but that he realized his many public appearances with captive audiences would let him "indulge" himself. Listen, Giff, if this means that all the mayoral candidates will get equal singing time, we're so going to send bills from our ear specialist. But other than that, this is the makings of a great off-off-off Broadway musical!
Do you want to hear your public officials sing? (Think John Ashcroft!) Too bad "loves to sing" isn't something voters look for - the latest Quinnipiac poll shows Mayor Bloomberg 17 points ahead of Miller (the Mayor leads all Democratic contenders). And on Miller's personal playlist: Bob Marley, Tom Jones, the Beatles, Fountains of Wayne, and Neil Diamond. Did he say Neil Diamond? Today is the last day to win tickets from Gothamist to see Neil at Madison Square Garden on August 18 - enter here!
Photograph of Miller by Brian Palmer for the NY Times
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He's not the only singing candidate. I can't find a link, but WNYC had tape of C. Virginia Fields singing a gospel song a couple days ago.
The first thing Giffy has done right is to perform kareoke. Freddie Ferrer will probably try to sing too, but will fumble the song choice.
speaking of politics... I noticed that gothamist disconnected the comments option from the interviews, starting with the Andrew Rasiej interview. Rasiej paid for an ad on the gothamist website, so I take it that jake doesn't want the riff raff commenting about him. It's becoming more like the huffington report around here.
Actually, we generally don't have comments for our interviews - there have been some bad previous experiences. Check out our archives here and you'll see that about 90% of the interviews do not feature open comments. We are also in the process of working on interviews with the other candidates, including Margarita Lopez and Norman Siegel.
as long as the celebrities and politicians are safe from comment we can all rest easy.
Oh God! Another forum for Margarita Lopez to bitch about nothing!??!?!? Why can't she just crawl back to whatever hole she cam from?
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