The Quest to Stop the Pantsuit: NYC mayoral election 2013

Weinerschwanz leads La Pantsuit in a WSJ/WNBC poll, 25-20%, for the Dem primary. That's big "news," apparently. Of course this is within the margin of error, but poll poll poll. God, how I hate politics.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Anthony-Weiner-Frontrunner-NYC-Mayoral-Race-Poll-Christine-Quinn-213008841.html

Would appreciate if anyone can make a case for any candidate in here, I'm legit undecided other than probably not gonna vote for Quinn.

p4reene recently tweeted the conclusion I came to at least 6 months ago: DeBlasio by default. He's the most non-corporatist (yes it's relative); Liu is a crook, Thompson is essentially a Republican ringer as he proved 4 years ago.

I will abstain from a Quinn-Weiner runoff. (I might actually vote for Liu if he could sneak into the next round. "Vote for the crook, it's important.")

Just listening to Quinn's or Weiner's voice daily for 4 years... God Almighty.

Yeah I think I have been feeling a bit that way too -- no interest in Thompson, some interest in Liu or even Weiner (don't hate him as much as you do) but they're both tainted. So maybe DeBlasio is the best bet, but otoh I don't find him that impressive, and I find his "HEY LOOK, I HAVE AN INTERRACIAL FAMILY!!!" schtick a little weird.

the selling of the mayor

son does have an awesome 'fro tho

deblasio apparently has 'evolved' on some issues recently

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/06/8531063/de-blasio-who-called-sadik-khan-radical-comes-around-expansion-bike?--bucket-headline

bike lanes are kind of a no-brainer for a guy trying to be the candidate of the left wing of the party. The wrong stance on that is going to turn off a huge chunk of your base.

it took him a while to realize that

UFT endorsed Thompson, but the CUNY union just came out for DeBlasio

But in spite of being married to a UFT member, I hardly give a fuck what their leadership thinks

bike lanes top gay marriage as an issue I don't give a flying fuck about

but apparently Weiner usta shout at Bloomberg a couple years ago "hey Mike, I'm gonna tear out all yer fucking bike lanes!" He has since 'evolved' to "There are good bike lanes and bad bike lanes."

Bike lanes are kind of a symbolic issue for me. I don't even ride a bike. I believe in them in principal, but I think we're a long way off from them actually having a major impact on reducing car usage in the city. Nonetheless, they seem emblematic of a broader way of thinking that I support. I guess I support a candidate that generally *gets* the idea that the city shouldn't be making itself more friendly to cars at this point, and that our long term approach needs to be to move in the other direction.

I just want the MTA to put the goddamn B67 bus back on overnights.

yeah well the mayor doesn't have much say in that

I'm guessing the bike thing is probably a matter of balancing the wants of a large base of young lefty new yorkers with a small group of old, moneyed, donatin' new yorkers.

or just ppl who don't wanna be run over

link to data showing that bike lanes make you even 1% more likely to "be run over"

links links links, the sole source of truth

Weiner vs reality!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/27/anthony-weiner-stands-by-claim-that-west-bank-isn-t-occupied-by-israel.html

I'm guessing the bike thing is probably a matter of balancing the wants of a large base of young lefty new yorkers with a small group of old, moneyed, donatin' new yorkers.

I think its more young lefty new Yorkers vs truck driving union outer borough left

ie deblasio sees himself as a man of the people because he *does* drive

that weiner israel shit is weiiiiird, did not know about that

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/nyc/nyc06272013.pdf/

50% of people 18-25 think bike lanes should be increased, 21% decreased
11% and 34 for people 65+

50/20 citibike approval, also

but also on my point above - 67% approval for people making 100k, 44% for under 40k

that's such a 21st century class weirdness when you think about it -- bikes for the elite, cars for the proles

interesting that mandatory food waste recycling is much more popular among hispanic and black voters than white voters, wonder what accounts for that

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/in-email-to-jta-quinn-says-west-bank-disputed-territory/2013/07/12/

lol "breaking"

controversial claim there

I mean, the article reads in "disputed" to mean something other than occupied. But I wouldn't really surmise that.

O, may this rescue us from a Schwanz-Quinn runoff

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/weiner_cops_to_carlos_danger_sexts/

i'm psyched for mayor quinn medicine woman

surely weiner's sexual pathology is not [just] that he gets off on sending around photos of his penis, but that he is really turned on by the subsequent shame of getting caught

I'm trying to resist playing armchair psychotherapist (a silly phrase, fwiw, since psychotherapists actually do work from armchairs), but there is definitely SOMETHING pathological about this beyond just blowing off steam, cheating, being horny etc.

Of course, someone was probably sitting on this, waiting for the right moment to use it. But that doesn't really make it look any better.

it's all probably a valve for self-loathing that comes from saying "Gaza is not occupied" in public.

you mean the west bank

hasn't he said both?

The West Bank is the one that's especially weird to claim it's not occupied. Israel removed its soldiers stationed in Gaza and forced out the few thousand Israeli settlers that lived there in 2005, so there's at least a plausible argument that it's no longer officially "occupied" (even though Israel controls its borders and imposes harsh conditions on its economy).

why is "the pantsuit" allowed to be used a shorthand for quinn? (nb: I dislike quinn intensely) that's not a good look for this thread right?

anyway, weiner has no chance now right? and is there even a remote possibility that de blasio could become viable as the non-quinn candidate? or is it too late for that?

and a la 2nd ave sagas, why the endless talk about ferries??
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/07/23/as-triboro-rx-looms-a-mayoral-race-on-ferries-emerges/

Weiner's campaign has hours left, if has a brain in his... well.

The Pantsuit was the nicest moniker I could come up with, that's the kind of pig I am. Deal.

One would presume CQ is not going to get the 40% needed to avoid a runoff, so whoever finishes second becomes the non-Quinn candidate. All deBlasio has to do is edge out the Crook and the Empty Suit.

Liu was campaigning outside of my subway stop yesterday morning. I helped throw away some flyers I guess. Don't understand what would make someone choose him of all people as a candidate-of-choice. Does he have some compelling platform I'm unaware of?

I like Liu on a good number of issues -- he has some of the "shareholder activism" interests of Spitzer, and he's at least partly on my side of things on education. The fundraising scandal may hurt him a bit. But honestly I'm not too happy with my choices right now and I'm not ruling him out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/nyregion/among-new-york-women-bafflement-at-the-loyalty-shown-by-weiners-wife.html

maybe she's into it. maybe it's a part of their sex life.

Marist poll, post-Carlos

Quinn 25, Weiner 16, de Blasio 14, Thompson 14, Liu 7

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/25/quinn_pulls_ahead_of_weiner/

de Blasio on the rise...

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/jul/29/poll-weiner-slumps-de-blasio-rises/

accept no imitations

argh, this is the WORST idea. Quinn is the WORST.

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-offers-loans-for-pre-k-2013-8

Mr. Weiner’s collapse, in the wake of his admission that he had continued to send sexually explicit images to women online for more than a year after he resigned from Congress over such behavior, appears to be significant: when asked to pick a candidate they would “definitely not vote for under any circumstances,” 51 percent named Mr. Weiner — up from 28 percent just three weeks ago. Ms. Quinn was named by 24 percent, and John C. Liu, the comptroller, was by 18 percent.

But Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, suggested that the numbers would most likely continue to change, especially because most of the candidates have just begun to air television commercials.

“Follow the bouncing ball, folks,” he said. “This lineup keeps changing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/nyregion/new-poll-suggests-that-de-blasio-is-now-first-among-voters.html

Bill Thompson wants us all to drive, maybe

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/08/8532950/bill-thompson-unveils-car-focused-transportation-plan?top-featured-4

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/nyregion/de-blasio-gingerly-acknowledges-red-sox-allegiance.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

uh oh

not as bad as Quinn jumping ship from the mets to the yanks

yep! no end to her perfidy

Can anyone give me a good reason not to vote for John Liu over these other clowns?

he's a crook and de Blasio is the only one w/ a prayer vs Speaker Kramden

from last week's new yorker story on bloomberg's legacy:

"Through no fault of Bloomberg's, the city is in a dangerous fiscal situation, Giuliani told me. "The next mayor has to be a fiscal expert, the way I was an expert on crime."

So, Curt Schilling?

Don't know quite what to make of the NYT's piece yesterday on de Blasio's stint in 2000 as Hillary Rodham's senatorial campaign manager. At first it smelled like a hatchet job ("indecisive") from a pro-Quinn paper, but it wound up primarily showing him as a guy who can't be an abusive dick? Which is what 3 of our last 4 mayors have been.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/in-2000-a-clinton-war-room-didnt-fit-de-blasios-style.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

the New York media has been slow dragging coverage lately, because any time people see De Blasio they like his message and people REALLY hate Quinn. So there's basically no day-to-day coverage of the race, it's just surreal. Higher-ups around the city are panicking obviously and don't know what to do, so they're just not covering it, unless it's a negative article about De Blasio. Bloomberg's pit bull Howard Wolfson was all over the media yesterday basically warning people it will be the 70s again...should be interesting

morbs it is amazing to see you pulling for the lesser of two evils in a politics thread, esp one that's a clinton crony. he was against the single most progressive policy proposed in nyc in a generation (congestion pricing). a safe prediction: after four years of mr. 'a tale of two cities', income inequality will be worse.

but he is also the least likely to be re-elected, which seems like a good reason to vote for him and quinn is just so terrible. I was hoping lhota, who was actually fairly competent at the MTA, would attempt to fill the void here but just been a bumbling his way through this. liu is a good protest vote because nobody could interpret a vote for liu as anything but a protest vote. it is just astounding that one of these people will actually be mayor.

I'm not happy with the Hillaryism, but all the others suck worse. I voted for Thompson 4 years ago, fer Chrissake, my "purity" is greatly exaggerated.

income inequality will be worse.

yeah, but it will get worse more slowly, maybe. I just want the apocalyptic shit to hit after I die. (Good luck to the rest of you btw.)

Is it even that clear that Liu is really a "crook"? The campaign finance allegations are serious, but is Liu's direct knowlege/involvement clear?

even if the scandals didn't exist he was never going to get enough support to be a serious candidate

Seriously thinking about throwing him my vote. I don't think I even really care much btw DeBlasio and Quinn.

De Blasio up by 15 in latest Quinnipiac poll (which is a left-leaning poll yadayada)...he's 4 points away from avoiding a runoff! Quinn and Thompson have 21 and 20, respectively...this poll was done after the 2nd debate and in the midst of all CQ's useless endorsements.

that's kind of unbelievable

If there is a runoff, it's gonna be nassssty.

I don't think it's that unbelievable--for most everyone (me included), BDB is a cipher--but he's the only one who taps into the massive sense of "No Mas!" over the Bloomberg years. People are voting out of a general pissed-offness about the reversal of term limits, income inequality, the city becoming a tourist-yuppie-transplant haven, stop-and-frisk, et al...and it doesn't hurt that Weiner flamed out and BDB has a multi-racial family

there was a Times article a couple days ago about de Blasio pulling an unexpectedly high amount of the black vote. I saw one of Thompson's new attack ads yesterday. too little too late imo.

Plus Quinn is just so blah, even if you don't know much about her. I met her the other day, and I felt like I was shaking hands with my third grade teacher.

there was a Times article a couple days ago about deblasio pulling an unexpectedly high amount of the black vote.

this doesn't come across in the quinnipiac poll, where the black and white support for deblasio is 34% and 38%

there's a pretty enormous gender gap though, w/ 43% men supporting him vs. 18% quinn

I mean I guess it's unexpectedly high if we were assuming thompson would suck up all the support

bdb's share of the black vote is way up from the last poll, due in part to his son's Afro perhaps.

Weiner was getting a sizeable share of the black vote til Twitgasm #2, cuz... I dunno, u tell me.

I met her the other day, and I felt like I was shaking hands with my third grade teacher.

did the class wear earplugs?

yeah, but it will get worse more slowly, maybe.

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa

that's called the modern Democratic Party

as this thing goes on it's really shining a light on the division of opinion on Bloomberg between city elites (including all of the newspaper editorial boards that endorsed Quinn) and the rest of the population. like in the Times endorsement of Quinn their pitch is "she'll continue most of Bloomberg's policies, just with a few tweaks!" and that's supposed to be a positive. their write-up pushed me further toward de Blasio. and in the Times poll story today they acknowledge that people being fed up with Bloomberg is the reason de Blasio's ahead but it's kinda like they didn't see that coming?

upscale nyc liberals, and the times is their bible, live in as much of a bubble as tea partiers in the deep south...(i'm a lifelong new yorker and far far to the left)

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84

Last try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXLD7yQX84

Isn't there usually at least one traffic fatality a year at that parade? Of all the luck...

The Quinn papers are continuing to gun for de Blasio, but I read the Times piece about the outer-borough taxi plan and I will most certainly hold my nose when I vote for him. The lesson that always applies: THEY ALL SUCK.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/01/times_daily_news_take_shots_at_fron.php

Quinnipiac puts de Blasio at 43%, Thompson 20, Quinn 18

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/nyregion/de-blasio-could-avoid-democratic-runoff-new-poll-suggests.html

what was highlight of the Kill Bill debate finale?

none, like watching paint dry

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTl_XaMIIAAb3St.jpg

Cats is my #2 after BdB, for sheer entertainment val

what a country, where a man that ugly can be worth $3b

wow, man

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/bloomberg-says-de-blasio-has-run-a-racist-campaign.html?_r=0

"I mean he’s making an appeal using his family to gain support"

ZOMG CAN U EVEN IMAGINE??? HIS FAMILY. FAMILY!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-de-blasio-attack-bloomberg-forgets-playing-up-jewish-heri

Can we plz shoot Bloombito and "NY Didn't Really Feel the Recession" Catz into space together?

I'm leaning Stringer, Thompson (Bklyn DA) and maybe Letitia James (publ advoc) in the other races? Anyone?

wow, piece-of-shit Al D'Amato was actually campaigning with Bill Thompson. What a stench.

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/09/shame-bill-deblasio-promises-satmar-that-in-exchange-for-votes-he-will-repeal-informed-consent-metzitzah-b-peh-123.html

That Bloomberg quote is just unbelievable. Makes me wish he was running just so I could vote against him.

via Doug Henwood, an audit Liu performed of the Economic Development Corporation (which apparently gives out a lot of tax breaks for not much result):
http://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/liu-edc-subsidizes-empty-job-promises/

re BdB's Hillary ties, I think P4reene has it right: "He worked for the Clintons, but he wasn’t enough of a raging prick to become part of the Clinton inner circle."

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/de_blasio_i_guess_the_pareene_endorsements/

I thought for 3 seconds about voting for the comedian Randy Credico for mayor.

So who exactly appointed Erc Adams as the new Brooklyn beep by acclamation? Thank God it's a meaningless office, eh.

I don't think deblahsio is gonna hit 40

that quinn might not even be in the runoff is pretty astounding

anything that hastens the end of identity politics re corporate shills is fine with me

i'm calling no runoff. and that putz stringer is going to win...cannot stand him

I'd vote for stringer over any of the mayoral candidates if he hadn't dropped

and I don't think he'll win

I feel we haven't seen the end of Spitzer's "flaws" (like strengthening john laws as guv, you fink) so i went for Stringer.

same here

Enough with the Markowitz robocalls for Hynes! Goodbye to you, big mouth.

lol landlines

well i like living apart from my phone most of the day, I'm a relic

NYT exit polls: Bill de Blasio 43, Thompson 23, and Quinn 18

take that, 'yankee fan'

so BdB is at 39.6%, with 87% in? This could take days.

Joe Hynes, Vito Lopez buh-bye

Stringer beats Spitzer

de Blasio up to 39.9%. It looks like UWS, lot of the Bronx yet to come.

Roffle

http://gawker.com/anthony-weiners-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-1290370789

https://twitter.com/LindseyChrist/status/377634961227911168/photo/1

What a shitty person Leathers is, tbf.

It has been so weird to work on this city council campaign this last week and hear things from the inside. (Kinda been in the enemy camp but couldn't say anything until now.) Charter schools, yo. They are serious.

De Blasio's criticism of charter schools is one of the things that won me over. How serious he is about it remains to be seen, but most of the others are openly pro-charter.

I had a conversation with a pro-Quinn friend about the race, and she said that a lot of the things DeBlasio is "progressive" on are things he has reversed his position on, but I figured I'd still take the guy who flip-flopped to the progressive side over people who aren't progressive at all.

All the strategists/advisors that were working w my candidate (a whole separate story) spent last night being cranky about BDB's success.

I was secretly cheering, also I just loved watching them being stymied.

oh yeah, Hynes has the GOP line in November, so I guess Markowitz robocalls on his behalf are less likely then. Maybe the Hasidim will turn out to reelect him anyway.

de Blasio, such a LEFTY, w/ the big donations from Ratner and the wife who worked for Citigroup.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, tho. Oh, Students First takes a break from complaining about UFT for long enough to complain about BDB and repeat those "racist campaign" bullet points? Consider my interest piqued.

If there's a runoff I just hope Bill T hits the trail with Senator Fonzie Tomato every day.

Anyone have any thoughts on Squadron vs. Tish James? I met Squadron and he seemed like a really nice guy, but I don't know much about either.

I got a mailer from Squadron w/ Chuck Schumer's mug all over it, so I immediately dismissed him.

The only reason I'm not paranoid about the rich buying Lhota the mayoralty is BdB is not the kind of tin-eared goofball Mark Green was 12 years ago. NYT front page today quotes a banker: "I'm terrified."

I have thoughts about the Foy/Cornegy race but they are...not fully formed. Cornegy's another charter person btw.

I really keep having paranoid delusions that the fix is in and that, in a runoff, Thompson will climb steadily in the polls a la Stringer and overtake BdB right at the end

Anyone have any thoughts on Squadron vs. Tish James? I met Squadron and he seemed like a really nice guy, but I don't know much about either.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:12 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

James' work against Atlantic Yards seems to me exactly what a public advocate shuold do, if they do anything.
i also liked that she represented the broken angel house

I really keep having paranoid delusions that the fix is in and that, in a runoff, Thompson will climb steadily in the polls a la Stringer and overtake BdB right at the end

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't worry, that would only happen if DeBlasio were a real progressive

Brazen Voting Fraud Alleged Among Ultra-Orthodox In Williamsburg

The source, who declined to be named for fear of retribution, told us the fraud operation is run out of an ultra-Orthodox wedding hall at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg. Volunteers are allegedly given free food and then "driven to four or five places" to vote under false names. "They have copies of the voter rolls, I don't know how they get them, but they get the names and the signatures," the source alleged.

Approached by a reporter this afternoon, a group of men inside the wedding hall denied any involvement with a voting fraud operation....

A spokesman for the Brooklyn DA's office confirmed that they haven't received any complaints of voter fraud referred from the BOE yet, and pointed out that the polls hadn't closed when we called. Long-serving Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes has faced an unusually stiff challenge for reelection this year, in part due to criticism that he's failed to aggressively prosecute sex-offenders in the ultra-Orthodox community.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/11/voter_fraud_attempts.php

ha ha, good one, hurting--so true. sad, but true. still, i'll take bdb over thompson or quinn any day

Being a "real" progressive is almost irrelevant -- our lords and masters can't tolerate even a rhetorical challenge to their rule, which is why OWS had to be smashed.

from the NYT blog:

Even as Mr. Thompson was expressing confidence in public, some of his campaign’s closet advisers seemed to be moving away from his candidacy.

Merryl H. Tisch, the chairwoman of Mr. Thompson’s campaign, said Mr. de Blasio’s broad support suggested a “clear victory.”

“I don’t think there’s much appetite within the Democratic Party to have a fight here,” Dr. Tisch, chancellor of the State Board of Regents, said in a telephone interview. She declined to say whether she had urged Mr. Thompson to concede, but said he was spending the day reaching out to donors and party leaders. “I’m sure he will make a good decision,” she said.

*Tisch elbow*

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT2fggVCEAAECFg.jpg

De Blasio's criticism of charter schools is one of the things that won me over. How serious he is about it remains to be seen, but most of the others are openly pro-charter.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:45 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get the feeling he's not terribly serious about anything. he seems like a poseur, honestly. liu seemed like a guy who might get a few things done, but he didn't have a chance and I don't think it's clear how close to the campaign-finance fraud he was.

on the other hand, if BdB's making those corporate "school reform" dolts mad, he cannot be all bad. he'll probably cozy up to them in due time, though.

that weiner image is oddly poignant

("that's what she said!" amirite?)

but dude has no right to be mad. He was the one crazy enough to enter the fray. Had a nice little consulting business going too iirc, no need to get back into politics. Was pulling in mid six figures, putting his marriage back together, etc. Running for mayor seems like another self-destructive move, really.

real 1000-yard zombie stare to go with it

i love this picture

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/13/nyregion/13nycmayor-2/13nycmayor-2-popup.jpg

to the mitzvah mobile!

Just saw Bill on ny1. He will not be seeking Weiner's endorsement.

BREAKING

Thompson withdrawing today. Our elections are over when the Tisches say they are over.

btw de Blasio, in his primary night speech, called Cynthia Nixon "one of the architects of this campaign"! Which is funny since Robert Altman gave CN her start in politics.

http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080902/Tanner-88-Nixon_l.jpg

de Blasio, in his primary night speech, called Cynthia Nixon "one of the architects of this campaign"!

I missed that line but in the shots of the primary night party crowd my wife recognized Cynthia Nixon's partner (wife? not sure) as being right in the front row of supporters behind the podium

Sandinista! (of course Bill & Hil were once McGoverniks)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopeful-now-de-blasio-was-once-a-young-leftist.html

so who else read the VV cover expose on de Blasio FIXING PARKING TICKETS for his CC constituents?

the horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO6waZDHBqA

http://politicker.com/2013/10/joe-lhota-releases-scariest-ad-yet/

god these guys are awful

if u listen to em, sure.

still it's quite possible I'll vote minor-party for mayor now, have to look who's on.

def a good election for that

i only skimmed the Times today, what was awful about BDB?

as a motorist he believes the 'jury's out' about pedestrian plazas

np, last thing i wanna do is sit down on West 39th Street.

won't have to sit down in park slope either, bdb and chuck need those extra lanes

My office overlooks this "transition center" George Soros is building, will try to check out what can be done on Wednesday:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/billionaire-financier-soros-backs-mayoral-transition-project/

I gen find the Working Families Party to be a meaningless dodge for liberals who think they're 'sending a message' to mediocre-and-worse Dem candidates, but can someone explain who those 3 judge candidates were running against the unified Dem-Rep field?

morbs did you really not vote for BDB

lol at this pic btw

http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_rebeccaf/110513_bloombergbill.jpg

I was completely on the fence til the last minute, but yes I voted Green for mayor, w/ about 4000 others. (iatee?) BdB got my vote in the real election in Sept. (and I voted for Tish James and Ken Thompson both times, that's enough Dems)

not a bad John Liu post-election interview, basically a rundown of city challenges:

http://gothamist.com/2013/10/23/john_liu_feature.php

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/12/bill_bratton_de_blasio_nypd_commisioner.php

actually seems promising...

Dude has a soca song? Did anybody ever write a soca about Bloomy? Hmmm?

http://m.animalnewyork.com/2013/bill-de-blasios-soca-anthem-incredible/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-defies-national-trends-23-cut-traffic-deaths-3-years-article-1.2980888

pretty big accomplishment

too bad about the pedestrians

and the cyclists

14 -> 18 is not a big deal. 299 -> 230 is

p4reene w/ some tips, links, laments

http://splinternews.com/a-guide-to-new-york-citys-municipal-primary-elections-f-1803740414

went with Swern over Fliedner for Brooklyn DA