From the NY Times:
In the Bayside section of Queens, a volunteer had barely begun her sales pitch for Christine C. Quinn’s mayoral campaign when the middle-aged man who answered the door cut her off. “She was the one responsible, in the City Council, for giving Bloomberg a third term,” he barked. “I hold that against her.”
The volunteer calmly countered that it was New Yorkers, not Ms. Quinn, who “voted the mayor back in.”
In Astoria, Queens, a woman in her 30s told another Quinn volunteer that the candidate’s sometimes brash personality had rubbed her the wrong way.
The volunteer gamely explained that Ms. Quinn’s flashes of temper “come from a place of love and passion.”
For all its financial might and political firepower, Ms. Quinn’s once high-flying bid for mayor has suddenly plummeted back to earth, shedding its coveted front-runner status and foreclosing the possibility of a painless path to City Hall. So with two months left in an increasingly unpredictable Democratic primary, she is dispatching a volunteer army unlike any in the race to every corner of New York City, determined not just to promote her campaign, but also to systematically ferret out and rebut voters’ reservations and resentments toward her.
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“She was the one responsible, in the City Council, for giving Bloomberg a third term,” he barked. “I hold that against her.”
The volunteer calmly countered that it was New Yorkers, not Ms. Quinn, who “voted the mayor back in.”
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT IN THIS REGARD! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE WERE ASLEEP DURING CIVICS CLASS AND JUST RUBBER-STAMP ANYTHING THEY PUT IN FRONT OF US. ULTIMATELY ALL THE WEINERS AND BLOOMBERGS AND SILVERS THAT ARE HURTING OUR COMMUNITIES ARE IN THE FINAL CALL OUR FAULT FOR PUTTING THEM THERE.
JUST THINK PEOPLE HOW SIMPLE IT WOULD BE TO GET RID OF THE WHOLE LOT.
MUCH MUCH EASIER THAN YOU THINK!
Her royal highness thinks she's a shoe in.
I'd like to plant my shoe up her ass!
Anon #1,
Bloomberg spent more on his 2009 reelection campaign than any other individual in U.S. history, probably even inflation-adjusted. On a per vote basis, he spent more than 10x than the Obama campaigns.
He used a number of well-honed scare tactics about impending economic and public safety doom if anyone but HE were allowed to hold the office. I'm not an apologist for Thompson, but the constant flood of his ad propaganda was insurmountable.
"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE WERE ASLEEP DURING CIVICS CLASS..."
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"Civics" class no longer exists. Neither does "History" or "Geography" class.
It's called "Social Studies". I know. I taught it - reluctantly.
This is great! ABQ!!! ABQ!!! ABQ!!!
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