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Originally Posted by BlakeJones
because he was a fantastic mayor
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Again because people ran their mouths but failed to vote.
The first time Bloomberg won was mostly about people sick of Rudy G. but with 9/11/01 fresh in everyone's minds not wanting to throw everything out with the bathwater. Mark Green (the Democratic candidate in 2001) was vastly outspent by Bloomberg (who used $50 million of his own money to fund his campaign), and also just didn't seem to be able to close the deal with voters.
Bloomberg won his second term again by spending tons of his own money, plus he had the power of incumbency. Things were going good in NYC so why rock the boat?
By his third run people were getting tired of Bloomberg but the Democrats put up a weak candidate. Fernando Ferrer ticked many people off in various camps with a manifesto:
"During the campaign, Ferrer proposed reviving a
stock transfer tax for
Wall Street to help pay for education; this tax ended in 1981 but while different and smaller than the original tax was treated as if it were exactly the same. The tax had resulted in and been dropped as a result of threats by brokerage houses to move their operations base to New Jersey. Ferrer sought to create 167,000 homes, proposed hiring 1,900 new police officers, supported
same-sex marriage, opposed the
Urstadt law, supported the
Second Avenue Subway and was opposed to tolls on the
East River bridges as well as allowing residents of Staten Island to be able to cross the bridge connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn for free as other residents of other boroughs can do from their borough to others (such as the Brooklyn Bridge). On October 23, Ferrer proposed Home Owner Property Exemption, or HOPE, a
tax break for homeowners with a home property value of less than $100,000 which would have more than doubled the property tax rebate given to NYers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Ferrer
There was still enough "white" or "conservative" or whatever you want to call it vote that put Bloomberg over in all four boroughs. Ferrer only carried his hometown, the Bronx. Still the guy got nearly 40% of the vote which was enough to put some fear in the Bloomberg camp including that Quinn woman. If more persons who hated everything Bloomberg did including overturning term limits had come out things very well have been different.
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