Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spent years trying to perfect his Spanish. He bucked Republican allies to endorse immigration reform. And he has created a package of small-business services called the Latino Business Initiative.He has been rewarded with dozens of endorsements from ethnic news organizations.
But on Thursday, the city’s biggest and most influential Spanish-language newspaper sent a different message: “adiós.”
In a front-page editorial, it endorsed his opponent, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., with a withering indictment of Mr. Bloomberg’s eight years in office.
The editorial, in El Diario La Prensa, compared Mr. Bloomberg to Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, for his all-out campaign to upend the term limits law so he could seek a third term.
At least Mr. Chávez, it said, held a referendum to extend his time in power. “New Yorkers were not even given that chance,” the editorial said. It called Mr. Bloomberg’s term limits maneuver “not simply slick scheming” but “a gross abuse of power.”
Click here to read the editorial in English.
17 comments:
Exactly the example I gave. Good work El Diaro.
Is "adios" Spanish for "dump"?
Vaya con diablo Alcalde Bloomberg!
El Dario - what your position on Sen. ( I slash latinas for fun) Monserrate - one of your own?
Chavez and Monserrate - they look similar and perhaps share same tactics, no?
Hasta la vista, baybeee. Har-har-har.
Hola. El Diario is giving me muy El Diarrhea.
Finally, a paper with some cajones.
Auf Wiedersehen! My Spanish zuckz anyhow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGojjdw0HA
King Mike Bloomberg seems to have the press in his pocket as well the term limits debacle. He has conveyed this in all languages -- especially the message democracy is for sale.
thanks,
Suzannah B. Troy
(Burp) all those burritos, tacos, enchiladas, empinadas, etc. (burp) I had to eat (burp) trying to convince Latino voters (burp) that I'm sympatico all gone to waste (burp)!
Natzli please pass me some Tums.
Hasta Lavista Baby! Don't let la puerta (door) hit you on the way out!!
Did anyone notice at the debate how Bloomberg answered a question (in his horrible spanish accent) and was sarcastically asked to repeat it for the people who don't speak spanish.
You either have class or you don't and money can't buy it.
Maybe he means a different Mafia family at DOB.
your in the U.S.A. now.....SPEAK SPANISH
" " FLUSHING "...... "MANDARIN/KOREAN
Boy that Chavez looks like Monserrate, even the blood red tie Monserrate wore on his puffed out chest upon exiting his conviction last week resembles Chavez' symbols. Maybe Monserrate can go to Caracus to beat up on Women, no? I bet in Caracus when confronted with Monserrate crimes, they would clip his little beads off, fry them and stuff them down his throat. The people there also wish to do the same to Chavez if they could get close enough to him.
The Spanish Papers didn't endorse Bloomberg because they were appalled at his attempt to speak their language. Watching him speak Spanish is just too painful to watch. He is so uncomfortable it's comical.
El Diario, not for sale to KING Bloomberg. Finally a paper with some balls.
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