Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

so the CC votes tomorrow. Love those Bloomie gritted-teeth responses to questions about anyone who would dare impede his coup d'etat...

Mugabe? OK, it's an outrageous comparison. Forgive me. Mike Bloomberg would never shut down newspapers or use brutal thugs against dissenters in order to hold onto power. He doesn't have to. He buys them....

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-22/columns/michael-bloomberg-s-velvet-coup/

ok, I vote No on Bloomberg here

by Sewell Chan and Jonathan P. Hicks

After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allow Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undo the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms. (Please refresh this post for latest updates.)

The vote was a major victory for Mayor Bloomberg — a billionaire and lifelong Democrat who was elected mayor as a Republican in 2001, won re-election in 2005 and decided just weeks ago that he wished to seek a third term in 2009 — and for the Council’s speaker, Christine C. Quinn, but the intense acrimony surrounding the decision could come at great cost.

After Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, who presides over the Council, announced the final result, the balcony erupted in shouts of “The city’s for sale!” and “Shame on you!”

Earlier, at 3:22 p.m. the Council rejected, 28 to 22, a key amendment that would have called for a public referendum on term limits by summoning a Charter Revision Commission, which would schedule a special election. One member, James Sanders Jr. of Queens, abstained on the amendment. (See the end of this article for the full roll call.)

Opponents of the bill to extend term limits without a public vote crowded the balcony of the Council chamber. As Ms. Gotbaum announced the final vote count on the amendment, groans erupted from the balcony, which was packed with members of the public opposed to extending term limits without a public vote. The Council immediately turned its attention to the main bill, which would extend the limit to three terms from two.

Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn, who supported the amendment, warned his colleagues that the Council’s legitimacy would be forever tarnished.

“The people of the city will long remember what we have done here today, and the people will be unforgiving,” Mr. de Blasio said. “We are stealing like a thief in the night their right to shape our democracy.”

I bet Rudy is pissed.

I know I am.

The Inside City Hall host on NY1 (the Time Warner local news cable outlet), Dominic Carter -- who've I've generally found to be a reliable softball tosser (he has to treat Ed Koch and Al D'Amato as serious analysts, for one thing) -- was practically laughing in the face of City Council members who voted for this thing and claimed it didn't smell.

well, anti-corporate comedian Rev. Billy -- who I've never found all that funny -- has the Green nomination for mayor. I wonder if any non-comedians will challenge Emperor Mike.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02billy.html

The strongest candidate to face Bloomberg will be a guy with the last name that is a homophone with 1) a slang term for being an emasculated, inffectual loser and 2) gradeschool term for penis.

gabbs loves the weiner-schnitzel, so be warned.

forewarned is forearmed, as it were ...

ugh, Son of Chucky

sorry, burt!

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/12/1833617.aspx

yay, Weinerdick definitely out.

At least Green Party candidate Billy Talen heckled the Mayor from the audience: "What are you doing here, Mike? We voted for term limits!" In a statement Rev. Billy said, "The missing voice tonight was the voice of New York City's neighborhoods, which Bloomberg and the Democrats have victimized in their lust for the bubble-based economies of tourism, chain stores and Wall Street..."

No one gives a shit.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/bloomberg-thomp.php

You all know what to do.

"Marjorie Shea, a retired high school teacher, said the spending was "overkill" but she voted for him anyway, saying his wealth and businessman's mind makes him an independent thinker."

you suck, New York, New York

hold on! NBC News called Bloomie the winner -- and has now RETRACTED that!

Looks like a 4-pt win for the emperor. $110 million well spent.

Bloomberg won by 50,342 votes, out of 1.1 million cast. That averages out to 8.24 people at each of the city's 6,110 election districts. So if you're the biggest Thompson supporter in your ED, just imagine if you could have dragged your nine laziest friends out to vote. And if you're the biggest Bloomberg supporter in your ED, all those handwritten letters to your neighbors and the sign in your window may have really made the difference. Seriously.

It's a pity all my friends live in other election districts.

dont blame me i voted in the nj election

Join Housing Works World AIDS Day "Schmear Campaign" Against Mayor Bloomberg!

Every World AIDS Day, December 1, Mayor Bloomberg hosts a World AIDS Day "Bagel Breakfast" at Gracie Mansion where he professes his commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic -- and every January, he proposes a budget that includes devastating cuts to services for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, as well as other critical social services.

This year, the bagels are boycotting breakfast.

To expose Bloomberg's hypocrisy and bring an end to his attacks on chronically ill homeless New Yorkers, Housing Worksâ staff and clients will be dressing up as giant bagels (sesame, poppy seed, everything, onion, blueberry!) and protesting outside of Gracie Mansion on World AIDS Day, December 1. And, possibly for the first time in human history, bagels will engage in civil disobedience. In other words, its a schmear campaign!

In order for this unprecedented foray into baked-good political action to succeed, we need your help. We are looking for people to do one or both of the following:

* Create and dress up in bagel costumes and/or make and carry signs; or simply attend our bagel protest outside of Gracie Mansion * Participate in a civil disobedience action (NOTE: No one is required to engage in civil disobedience. You can come, simply watch, and enjoy yourself.) Come to an information session Saturday, November 13 at noon at Housing Works Brooklyn headquarters at 57 Willoughby St., 2nd Fl, easilyaccessible by the A, C, F (Jay St./Borough Hall) or N/R (Lawrence St) or 2,3,4,5 (Borough Hall).

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I am going to hit the next person who tells me this fucker is "a good mayor."

Cant stand this fuck and his smug face

and his absent snowplows

janette sadik-khan makes up for a lot of other stuff, like I'm not sure that even a progressive dem mayor would be as good as he's been on this subject

she went to my college

just found out who that is.

you have got to be fucking kidding.

She is an ethnic Tatar.

thank her when you don't get hit by a car on PPW, morbs. dunno how you can bitch about nyc politics...and transit...yet have (proudly) not heard of the very prominent DOT commissioner??

pedestrian plazas for tourists on Broadway!

see deck chairs, Titanic

(I am pretty much never on PPW)

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

she's "prominent" to the MSM Entertainment Circus

and his absent snowplows

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, December 27, 2010 7:48 PM Bookmark

Stop being such a self-entitled prick. The city is in really bad financial shape and it's not his fault.

he's fucking sold it further down the river like Prick Rudy, Prick Dinkins and Prick Koch.

also lol, he got the third term under cover of being THE FINANCIAL GENIUS WE NEEDED!!!!!

tourists shouldn't have to get hit by taxis either. it's a small but important step of a bigger process - shutting down larger parts of broadway to cars - which is pretty fucking revolutionary as far as american urbanism goes. he's a corporate fuck on a lot of things, but try and find another american mayor who'd push for congestion pricing like he did. times square is the biggest success story, but most of the progress is more subtle - there are pedestrian plazas throughout the city and new ones are being built at a pretty rapid pace. and hundreds of miles of bike lanes. and protected bus lanes.

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

nyc easily the greenest city in america already

I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE

move to queens ffs

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here. that's annoying, but the solution isn't "make times square shitty and dangerous again" but rather "seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

In Philadelphia the streets look like this a week after a snowstorm. I'm all for not giving any leader a free pass no matter what, but I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city (xposts).

bike lanes are sweet but basically got no love for this guy

A good city leader would work on creating a sustainable and equitable living environment for as many citizens as possible. Bloomberg worked hard as hell to take away public resources and put them in the hands of his business friends, and one of his primary "missions" was further bottlenecking New York's economy to high-end industries that are currently propped up by moral hazard from our federal government, done at the expense of the living standards of middle and lower-income New Yorkers.

Can't put all the blame on him, though, it might just be a result of how screwed up our economy and society in general is right now.

liked when he got smacked down on the west side stadium cause he didnt kiss the right rings p funny

http://tv.gawker.com/5719257/watch-sanitation-workers-destroy-a-ford-explorer-in-brooklyn-today

lol atl

oops

no pity for brooklyn heights ford explorers

"seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

Clearly not as big a priority as "plow 79th Street first, where Bloomberg lives."

I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city

^Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized.

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc

I'm talking about "middle-class" Kensington.

Spectrum otm

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here.

lmao