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Both Senator Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will formally endorse City Comptroller William Thompson for mayor today in Union Square. However, City Room wonders, "But will Chuck or Kirsten actually say anything bad about Mike?"
That's because Schumer has previously praised Mayor Bloomberg, who also had Schumer's wife as DOT Commissioner for a while. Also, City Room notes, "Mr. Bloomberg also employs a number of former Schumer aides on his campaign, or in City Hall, including Bradley Tusk, his campaign manager; Howard Wolfson, a campaign spokesman; Josh Isay, a political consultant; and Stu Loeser, his chief spokesman in the mayor’s office." So the guess is that Schumer (and Gilly) will praise Thompson while not really blasting Bloomberg.
Bloomberg is currently an Independent, after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in 2001 (to win the election) and then dropping his GOP stripes in 2007, when he was considering a third party run for president. PolitickerNY points out, "Since unenrolling from the Republican Party in 2007 in a public gesture toward an independent presidential run, Bloomberg has sought to highlight his support from Democrats. This weekend, he announced he was endorsed by 'two prominent, longtime Democrats,' Peter Vallone Sr., the former Speaker of the City Council, and his son, Peter Vallone Jr., a Councilman in Astoria." And it's been rumored that President Obama is trying to stay out of the mayoral race because of his relationship with Bloomberg.
Thompson received the endorsements of City Council members Bill de Blasio and John Liu yesterday—all three are also Working Families Party candidates.
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I am not thrilled with Thompson, but I will vote for him as my vote against Monty Burns-- I mean Bloomberg! Whose unsmiling face is in a box just above this comment box...
agreed, i'm sick of looking at him. hey bloomie, Earthworm Jim called, he wants his face back.
The don't look at him, look at his accomplishments. Thompson will bring with him a lot of baggage and we'll be right back in the hole with the incompetence and corruption of a hack paying off his political debts.
fuck that noise. the reason that we're stuck with only Thompson as an opposition candidate is because of daddy-Bloomberg's accomplishment of throwing out term limits. no desirable candidate with half a chance would run against the bloomberg machine.
and here i thought i lived in USA not venezuela...silly me.
bloomberg has made it impossible for anyone to run against him unless they have the amount of money he has for his campaign. it really disgusts me when bloomberg says things like, "if you don't like me then don't vote for me. it's your choice". he is a despicable human being.
But he still has to perform.
can the city get ANY worse????
I'm still seeing stores boarded up from 4 years ago empty.
I'm seeing mom and pop delis that did well a couple of years ago turned into a Duane Reade Express.
what has the mayor accomplished the affected you personally? those ads with the 65 year old senior citizen doesn't care about schools, it's all BS.
why does he want to be mayor again? hasn't he done enough to mess this city up?
Fight the power!
There is not one positive reason to vote for bloomberg, and one very good one for thompson. the shit is deep, and nobody, bloomberg included can dig ny out any faster than the rest of the country. elect thompson now, and when things settle out perhaps we'll have a real choice in 4 years.
we will have choice in the next couple of years, once we get rid of all these incumbents who voted to extend term limits. I'd wish Avella got more time so people can get to know him, too. but with moneybags, it gets all drowned out.
Wa wa wa...what's the one good reason to vote for Thompson? I don't see a single reason to do so. Please enlighten me.
Wonder how much the Bloomberg ads bring to Gothamist?
you don't pay much attention to politics do you sonny?
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-09-29/columns/bloomberg-s-term-limits-scheme/
and here is another infamous term-limits foe, hugo chavez, ironically covered by bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a6cMC3Dx21n8&refer=latin_america
Failed attempt at sarcasm. I really wanted to see if a Thompson supporter could give me a reason other than "he's not Bloomberg." And they can't...
I could care less about the "term limit" nonsense. Didn't support it in the first place -- it's a tool for lazy democracies.To be sure, he didn't go about things the right way. But I'd much rather have him in office than Thompson.
Bloomberg is the only man who can lead us through the economic crisis. It is about progress not politics. He is ready to fight the MTA. He sees solar panels on rooftops of Brooklyn buildings. He is for the middle class. He gets the environment. 311, smoking bans, better schools. Taxis have gps and can accept credit cards.
There hasn't been a lick of corruption during the last 8 years. I have seen or heard very little about Department of Buildings' failures, a transit strike, unemployment rising, over crowding in schools, falling cranes crushing humans like ants, the Deutsche Bank building still standing, very little development @ the World Trade Center site, sales tax increases, police sodomizing, shooting, electrocuting, and driving over citizens they are hired to protect, homelessness on the rise, stores boarded up, rampant overdevelopment resulting in multiple stalled construction projects, 2 brand spanking fucking new baseball stadiums funded by taxpayer money,
Yes Mayor Bloomberg it is all about progress...
just received another glossy mailing from bloomberg,
did you know he only get's paid $1 a year?
and isn't California going bankrupt, so much so that they're releasing inmates, yeah how's their pension fund doing?
he's worth every penny too...
Boom-O. You never hire the 'dollar a year' guy.