From the NY Times:With anxiety rising over a difficult economy, few surveyed have a lot of confidence in Mr. Bloomberg’s ability to lead the city out of the recession, a troubling sign for a mayor who cited his financial acumen as the rationale for his undoing of the term limits law that otherwise would have forced him from office.
In addition, some 51 percent say that the city is on the wrong track, while 40 percent say it is going in the right direction.
And though Mr. Bloomberg has sought to elevate his image nationally and internationally as a bold-thinking mayor with a record of innovation and results, New Yorkers in the survey struggle when asked to identify any particular achievement of his tenure. More than a third of those polled could not offer any answer when asked what was the best thing Mr. Bloomberg has done since he became mayor almost eight years ago.
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he sucks the city is poorer and he is richer and so are his real estate buddies. Bloomberg needs to get the fuck out
anyone who thinks bloomie is going to lose needs to take a reality pill. The media controls this, the sheeple will follow.
Let's all roll over and play dead!!! That'll show 'em!
the guy is full of crap and has nothing to show he accomplished. oh wait! tax the shit out of everything?? this dumb ass wants to apply more tax on gas, so we are back to paying $4.00 a gallon. gives out rebates and then raises taxes on your property. overdevelop outside manhattan, to sit empty. take properties for his own special interest, investments. i know i won't be voting for him and i really wish they would stop with the calls and juke mail. what happened to going GREEN...
The ONE good thing I can think of
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Well, yes and no.
I talk to a lot of poeple. At least half say they will support him.
Why? The perception he is doing something (look at the steady drum beat in the media - here he is putting flags at Memorial Day, there is he cutting a ribbon, etc)
The other is a perception that all this building is good. A sign of vitality.
Of course, since the community preservationists are doing absolultely nothing except crowing their block, or undermining each other, no broader message is getting out to the public that much of the city, with a sharp increase in population and sharp decline in services, will be all but unlivable in about 30 years.
Despite his not-so-stellar poll stats, the Grinch will comfortably skate to a third term, no matter who his opponent will be in November. I'm being realistically pessimistic, like ew-3. He can be defeated and should be defeated -- soundly -- but the dim-witted masses (aka the sheeple) presumably will give him sufficient votes to keep him in office, barring some kind of unforeseen major scandal or the Kommissar losing his temper to the wrong person. (What? Berating a handicapped reporter for no good reason didn't show everybody his true stripes? Oh, yeah. He had one of his lackeys apologize to the guy. That smoothed everything over, alright.) The emperor has no clothes, but steamrolling PR, backed by a shitload of dough, will convince most idiots that "he's da man," as I keep hearing one dummy state in a radio ad.
In the privacy of the voting booths all around NYC...during a bad economy with an arrogant mayor at the helm who
hasn't gotten our chestnuts out of the fire yet...who can guarantee how the populace will vote?
I can tell you this though...
historically speaking the statistics have shown that mayors on their bid for a third term usually lose!
May the Lord favor us with a similar outcome on this one.
Amen!
There are still 6 months til the election. Anything can (and probably will) happen.
Yes third term politicians usually do lose, but no one is willing to run. The blind masses in Manhattan especially are to busy not paying attention to the fine
details like all his deals for developers when the city is broke. As pointed out too he is more than happy to be rude to a handicapped reporter, female employees at his company,or any citizen in general.
This guy is the biggest phony,lying, politician since Rome and Europe's dictators. His PR campaigns should be reason to make mock ads of him in any media format, if people just had the guts.
I still say I'm pulling for Avella!
Two more things:
1. If you are accosted by one of Bloombuck's telephone pollers, just hang up. Don't engage them in conversation. Don't tell them why you despise him and his policies. That just gives them ideas as to how to adjust their massive PR. Apparently it was determined that he has a weakness when it comes to female voters, so we are witnessing a big push for that bloc. So if you were to indicate that you are against his push to overdevelop our neighborhoods capriciously, his campaign would come up with lies to address that deficiency.
2. If you tell a lie often enough and with enough flash and polish -- fancy PR -- the gullible masses will believe it to be the truth. Scary.
Commissar Death and Taxes is using an ancient campaign tactic: Make the opponent believe that the Commissar's victory is inevitable.
Despite the gloom and doomers commenting here, the Commissar is absolutely NOT a shoo-in.
Au Contraire: It is the Commissar's DEFEAT that is inevitable.
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