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
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 29 August 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
that's called the modern Democratic Party
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 August 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
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?
― dmr, Friday, 30 August 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 30 August 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84
― polyphonic, Monday, 2 September 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84
Last try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXLD7yQX84
― polyphonic, Monday, 2 September 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
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
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
what was highlight of the Kill Bill debate finale?
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
none, like watching paint dry
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 5 September 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTl_XaMIIAAb3St.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
Cats is my #2 after BdB, for sheer entertainment val
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
what a country, where a man that ugly can be worth $3b
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
wow, man
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/bloomberg-says-de-blasio-has-run-a-racist-campaign.html?_r=0
― |citation needed| (will), Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
"I mean he’s making an appeal using his family to gain support"
ZOMG CAN U EVEN IMAGINE??? HIS FAMILY. FAMILY!
― |citation needed| (will), Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-de-blasio-attack-bloomberg-forgets-playing-up-jewish-heri
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 September 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
wow, piece-of-shit Al D'Amato was actually campaigning with Bill Thompson. What a stench.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
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
― Mordy , Monday, 9 September 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
That Bloomberg quote is just unbelievable. Makes me wish he was running just so I could vote against him.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
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/
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I don't think deblahsio is gonna hit 40
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
that quinn might not even be in the runoff is pretty astounding
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
anything that hastens the end of identity politics re corporate shills is fine with me
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
i'm calling no runoff. and that putz stringer is going to win...cannot stand him
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I'd vote for stringer over any of the mayoral candidates if he hadn't dropped
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
and I don't think he'll win
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
same here
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Enough with the Markowitz robocalls for Hynes! Goodbye to you, big mouth.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
lol landlines
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
well i like living apart from my phone most of the day, I'm a relic
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
NYT exit polls: Bill de Blasio 43, Thompson 23, and Quinn 18
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
take that, 'yankee fan'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
so BdB is at 39.6%, with 87% in? This could take days.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Joe Hynes, Vito Lopez buh-bye
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
Stringer beats Spitzer
de Blasio up to 39.9%. It looks like UWS, lot of the Bronx yet to come.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
Roffle
http://gawker.com/anthony-weiners-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-1290370789
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/LindseyChrist/status/377634961227911168/photo/1
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
What a shitty person Leathers is, tbf.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
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, 11 September 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
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.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
All the strategists/advisors that were working w my candidate (a whole separate story) spent last night being cranky about BDB's success.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I was secretly cheering, also I just loved watching them being stymied.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
If there's a runoff I just hope Bill T hits the trail with Senator Fonzie Tomato every day.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link