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So, while Democratic mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer is criticizing the Mayor for letting token booths close and L trains lose conductors (though, as Newsday points out, the Mayor doesn't control the MTA), the big Ferrer news seems to be a tape of Ferrer pollster Jeffrey Pollack banging his head on a table during a NY1 roundtable segment for The Road to City Hall. See the clip here, which is kind of hilarious because it doesn't seem like it's a joke, it seems like a desperate cry, to bang your head on your arm with at least twenty people in studio and thousands of New Yorkers watching. As Gothamist learned during one painful freshman year incident, headbanging should be left to those regulars in the moshpit. [Via the Politicker]
The NY Times looks at the current frontrunning Democratic candidate, C. Virginia Fields, and how now that she's a frontrunner, she's also a target.
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Ferrer looks and behaves very much like floyd the barber. It was kind of painful to watch him on NY1 trying to emulate the bloomberg perfected witty corporate guy schtick instead of his usual mildly peeved barber persona.
He DOES look like a barber!!
With all of the shaving and cutting of the police, teacher and firehouse budgets, one would think that Bloomberg was the barber.
As well he should! Blike, aren't you the one that complains that cops do nothing except arrest protesters and bikers? And yet you are so sympathetic to their corrupt unions. There exists a system in this country whereby the market determines what is needed and how it is priced. Unions get in the way of that process by artificially inflating labor costs for a given product or service. They served a purpose once, but with OSHA, labor laws and other protections now in place, they are little more than a cesspool of greed and corruption that eventually hurts both the corporation and the worker. Is it any wonder that organized crime got so deep into unions years ago? While they were once symbiotic with the American worker, they've become parasitic.
nice try blike blows. just like corporations, unions are not inherently corrupt. only a fool would believe that government regulations will protect workers from corporate exploitation. it's in the interest of a free country to allow workers to organize and look out for their own interests. afterall, what is a corporation but a group of people looking out for their own interests driven by greed? what's the difference? do you want to deny workers the same rights you protect for corporations? is there something you find unfair about a naturally levelled playing field? if the corporation does not like unions, they don't have to hire union workers (as whole foods does for example) but to whine that they get in the way of the free market is to whine about having freedom period. that's not to mention your hypocricy in simultaneously touting the virtues of the free market while praising government regulation instead of the will of the people... which do you want?
yes, unions have deals with municipalities. so do corporations. it's people looking out for themselves on all sides.
What's with the weird NY1.com hack? - The clip link takes you to http://ny1sucksreallyreallysucks.com/ - which has almost all the NY1 elements except for the top made up story and NY0 in the corner. And a picture of Chucky too.