Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

what is manon lescaut?

yeah, altho he didn't think of it. Chicago had a 311 line at least 2 years before NYC.

Bloomberg sucks because he hates ice cream and puppies.

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not saying i'll vote for him (not saying i won't either), but term limits suck

yah theyre completely undemocratic

if i didn't think so, i might have more of a problem with his making a push as a sitting mayor in a 'crisis' context

would i feel the same if we still had giuliani? uhhh.

yes, term limits suck, and yes, Reagan's corpse wd still be prez if we didnt have em.

^^only if the 22nd Amendment allowed for zombie presidents instead of imposing a term limit Morbs

Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A. for about 734 years, and even though I didn't dislike him as mayor, there's this "too settled" thing about not having term limits that tends to rot after a while, whether you like the mayor or not.

In the United States, term limits on executives are absurd. Bloomberg has been an excellent technocrat for a city that was in desperate need for one. Hopefully he’ll win a third term and create even a larger precedent for future mayor’s.

hey, that was kinda funny, morbs

if we hadn't had term limits, we might not have gotten bloomie in the first place

term limits alternate between seeming like a good idea and like a bad idea every 8 years or so.

i have always thought term limits were a bad idea, even if i am thankful that they foreclosed the theoretical possibility of another Giuliani or Bush term

petition vs the City Council overruling the vote on NYC term limits, if that's your view:

http://www.ItsOurDecision.org

not my view

we knew.

Let's have the fucking anti-free speech billionaire stay cuz there's a "crisis" caused by his breed.

Cheistine Quinn:

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"We've gotta protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen!"

there's a "crisis" caused by his breed

Bloomberg hasn't been a banker since 1981, and I don't believe he's ever been involved with mortgage-backed securities. He ran a technology and media company, and for the last dozen years, he's also operated one of the largest philanthropies in the country.

^in the tank for Masters of the Universe

(God bless the smoking ban, tho)

I'm just stating facts. I do think that Bloomberg might be the right guy to deal with a struggling economy the transition from a NY funded by Wall St, or maybe he won't be - let's see who runs and what they propose. I am quite certain that Christopher Brodeur, for instance, like Sarah Palin is very much the wrong guy, at any time.

The idea of Sarah Palin as a guy disturbs me.

maybe locking up anyone who engages in protest against Wall St w/out a charge for 72 hours will be the plan.

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.

I will of course show up at the polls for him if it comes to that. Hell, I'd canvass for him if he was the nom, but does he even have volunteers? I feel like he probably just has an army of Boston Dynamics robots that go door to door for him.

to posit the possibility of a Bloomberg nomination is defeatism, you pikers

God, Trump would clown Bloomberg in a debate so bad. People that don't know Bloomberg well should check out clips of him doing dumbass everyday political stuff like opening a sports arena or honoring someone famous. He is so bad at that shit and has no charisma.

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Bloomberg is a remarkably poor public speaker. if he actually has to start talking his numbers will tank harder than Biden's

I didn't have much exposure to his speaking voice until recently but he really does have that patrician, speaking-down-his-nose-at-the-plebes tone nailed down.

bloomberg's 'actually, rich new yorkers are laughing at you' is exactly why people fucking vote for trump

Wait till you hear him speak Spanish

https://twitter.com/ElBloombito

BOOMberg

Bloomberg at his second event today in NC: Trump “calls me little Mike. My answer is Donald, where I come from we measure height from the neck up.”

Would imagine that Trump is taller by that measure also

My answer is Donald, where I come from we measure height from the neck up.

God, I hate bullies and I want to give Bloomberg a wedgie.

it's interesting to see Trump spend his energy attacking the guy he'd have the easiest time beating while defending the person most likely to defeat him but that's how his brain works.