One party rule. No debate. No creative solutions. Just second raters like Mayor Bill. .. a mayor circling the drain of corruption, leading a condescending, paternalistic "progressive" government. Boy.
He is such a bad Mayor. He was better suited for District 39. At heart, de Blasio is a community activist, and it hasn't translated well to being Mayor.
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I did not even know there was going to be a debate. Why wasn't this on the home page weeks ago? Isn't the NYT a New York paper?
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De Blasio is selling out our neighborhoods to line the pockets of developers. Take a look at the 80 Flatbush development. A tower-of-babel taller that will be the 13th tallest in the city in return for 350 school seats. Never mind that the city has billion in unallocated capital budget to build new schools. Why do we need to sell our souls to developers/ Mr. Mayor, you have the funds, go ahead and spend it.
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de Blasio has driven New York City into the gutter. No one feels safe anymore.
Pedestrians are terrorized by bikers ignoring traffic laws and the ever increasing
tendency of car drivers to ignore traffic rules. You can't even ride the subway without fear of being hurt by the ever present subway dancers. You can't walk down the street without seeing and endless line of homeless people many of whom are clearly angry and sick. Finally, de Blasio did not initially support
Clinton's run for the presidency. The guy is out for himself, but not for New York.
Pedestrians are terrorized by bikers ignoring traffic laws and the ever increasing
tendency of car drivers to ignore traffic rules. You can't even ride the subway without fear of being hurt by the ever present subway dancers. You can't walk down the street without seeing and endless line of homeless people many of whom are clearly angry and sick. Finally, de Blasio did not initially support
Clinton's run for the presidency. The guy is out for himself, but not for New York.
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Let's see, his record - forcing bad teachers (who the city taxpayers are paying $125 million a year for to sit in a room and should have been fired) back into the schools. The homeless population has increased by over 10,000 since he took office. He using city taxpayer money (about $500 million) into putting less than 100 homes on the Rockaways on stilts. He's pompous, arrogant and seems to be living in Cuba, as he wants the taxpayer funded city government to own all the residential buildings, so nothing is private, that way he can control rents and housing. he's turned the city into a gulag where there's no creativity, he's trying to force integration in to museums and cultural institutions he abhors, his wife is collecting a taxpayer salary to 'connect with business' and presides over all the empty storefronts along the avenues. Personally, he raised property taxes to pay for his socialist dream by 200% over 4 years. He neutered the police, allows criminals to walk the streets and decriminalized much of low level offenses than declare crime is down. He doesn't deserve to be mayor or hold any elected office. He's an ideological trapped progressive that can't make anything work.
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If I a life long Democrat, have to choose between de Blasio and
a Republican candidate- I would vote for a Republican for the first time in my life. New York for me, is my home - not a stepping stone to further political aspirations.
a Republican candidate- I would vote for a Republican for the first time in my life. New York for me, is my home - not a stepping stone to further political aspirations.
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Irene: I think you should Google "NYC Mayors Who've Gone On to Higher Office." If there's one office that's "a stepping stone to further political aspirations," this one ain't it.
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Dear Irene,
Please don't go with Republicans. Think of what that party is doing to our nation overall. And you don't need to worry about the mayoralty being a stepping-stone, no NYC mayor ever gets elected to any office afterwards.
Please don't go with Republicans. Think of what that party is doing to our nation overall. And you don't need to worry about the mayoralty being a stepping-stone, no NYC mayor ever gets elected to any office afterwards.
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Since it appears to be a done deal, I'm voting for Albanese.
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I voted for de Blasio the first time. He will not get my vote again. He has turned New York City into a pig sty. There is no defense.
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While benefiting from the sound policies and initiatives of previous mayors, de Blasio has failed to curb the ever -growing scourge of homeless pan handling and loitering everywhere, the return of squeegee- man squad on roadways and ever dirtier city streets. Bloating the city's payroll by using surplus created under Bloomberg would hardly solve the quality of life issues that matter to hard working New Yorkers
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A sad situation ... de Blasio's been a disaster. It's like Dinkins -- the time in office is bad .. the fix needed after is the real problem.
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And when it comes down to it, Mayor de Blasio has done an OK job of keeping the city running. People say he's not a great mayor, and that's true, but in my lifetime NYC has never had a great mayor. Bloomberg might have been the best, and he ignored four boroughs mostly, enriched his real estate friends, and allowed massive building of properties that only the very rich could buy into. Guiliani was a fascist narcissist, Dinkins was ineffective, Koch was decent but had tons of corruption in his administration.
So for me, Mr. de Blasio is good enough for now. He's dedicatedly anti-Trump, which is vital. And he's got the largest wingspan of any mayor I think we've ever had, he's the guy we'll need when Godzilla next attacks.