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NYC economy is already tanking my dude. First of all the city holds 120 billion dollars of debt, thanks to who, Bloomberg! Two plenty of businesses are leaving the city either opening up shop by making office parks in the suburbs or moving to the business friendly South. Also don't expect Google and BOFA to move their headquarters to NYC anytime soon! Another thing is that the NYC declining middle class is leaving the city in order to retain their status as a middle class American including those who are working class looking to evolve into a middle class setting. Don't get me wrong Bloomberg has done a great job attracting the rich, wealthy, the bourgeoisie and the heavily indebted yuppie, but these folks don't pay much taxes to help keep the city afloat and sustainable in the longrun!
If I was running for mayor I would align education with laborforce job creation. Obtaining a job starts with education. Improving public education from Kindergarten to CUNY is the best way for native New Yorkers to remain competitive, competent and relevant in the highly fierce and cut throat corporate and sometimes public work space. If I was running for mayor I would give businesses tax breaks and or subsidies if they hire and train locally especially those from inner city neighborhoods over out of towners. Might be the best way to reduce poverty!
First of all! All of the candidates are a joke especially Quinn and AW. Quinn is just Bloomberg crony/intern, she will preserve what the city garnered from Bloomberg! Quinn will probably do well amongst wealthy liberals, women, LGBT and may garner plenty of professional class folks, that's if they are registered NY voters. AW just a typical guy who has a porn addiction, he has a hot Middle Eastern wife who is smart and still acting like a fool! For me its either Bill De Blasio or John Liu. I just want a Mayor who can make NYC livable again, reduce income inequality, improve job prospects and improve education.
I'd like to rep you, but I can't. But I will say that a lot of women and gays do not like Quinn because of her stance on issues like the Sick Leave and Living Wage Bills. Cynthia Nixon, an open lesbian and actress from Sex in the City, is campaigning for de Blasio.
With that said, yes, the businesses Bloomberg tried to nurture aren't going to expand much in NYC. Google and Facebook aren't moving their headquarters to NYC. While you'll always have some film and tv done in NYC, the bulk of that remains and will remain in LA.
The business friendly South is a bit played out and is something back from the 80s. NYC banks offshored some operations to India. Domestic operations they have scattered all over, and have moved operations to Utah, Texas, Buffalo, NY, the suburbs, or wherever.
If they focused on hiring locals for businesses, you'd reduce the welfare load and have a healthier tax balance for the city as more people would be paying taxes. Out of towners whose primary residence is another state or company don't pay the bulk of their taxes here. Wait till the unions negotiations start with the next mayor, and wait till the unions get the retroactive raises. The city's budget is in crisis! A lot of municipal workers are already being laid off, and this will only get worse.
Christine Quinn is no Hilary Clinton and that is something even her dwindling base might agree with.
To suggest closet misogyny or closet homophobia as the reason some make fun of her is ridiculous. Should women and gays should be exempt from the barbs straight male politicians have always endured? It might not be "nice" to make fun of physical appearance or the way someone laughs but that is all any person prone to be the champion of woman and the bane of homophobes should think it is.
Was I not honest?
I agree, Quinn is no Hillary Clinton, not by any longshot.
With that being said, Quinn more importantly is a childless woman. Most politicians, male or female have kids to make them look normal. I do think being a lesbian without kids hurts Quinn. I also think she just plain SUCKS, with her stance on issues like Sick Leave, what she did on her own and Bloomberg's term limits, the city living wage, etc. Quinn was trying to appeal to the ethnic white Catholic and Jewish based that swept Giuliani and later Bloomberg to power. The problem is two fold. The numbers of white Catholics and Jews as a percentage of the overall city population has gone way down, even that of registered voters. And as a lesbian Quinn simply does not appeal to them. Most NYC LGBT are not interested in Quinn.
Pervert Weiner, until his latest scandal, surpassed Quinn in the polls. After Weiner was politically destroyed, de Blasio, a married man with children, quickly sped by Quinn in the polls. It goes to show she has a rapidly dwindling base.
I'm not impressed with Quinn either and am turned off by the wheeling and dealing that she has done to get the backing of the unions, which will probably be the reason for her to win. As a leader and an administrator, she is uninspiring and unsubstantive and does not bring new ideas to the table at a time when NYC badly needs ideas to cope with a rapidly changing economy. I also fund it hard that the largely liberal/gay community will support her just because she is gay. They might, to their own detriment. I agree with Sobro that despite all the baggage that he carries from his campaign, Liu has the best handle of how to run the city in a different direction for the challenging times ahead. The other candidate I found who appeared to know what he was doing is George McDonald, founder of the Doe Fund.
Some prominent lesbian activists have come out against Quinn. Cynthia Nixon, actress from Sex and the City, is pro De Blasio. Some other famous actors who are known liberals, such as Susan Sarandon, Billy Baldwin, etc., have come out for de Blasio. Quinn has support from neither the liberals nor the gays.
Quinn's losing her front runner status in the polls first to Weiner, then regaining it after Weiner imploded, and then surprisingly losing it again to de Blasio has the look of a strong ANYONE BUT QUINN feeling in the electorate. If Quinn slides down more in the next poll she and Ray Kelly should start looking elsewhere for employment.
I think she and Ray Kelly are already looking for employment elsewhere. As de Blasio got the lead, he got big endorsements from a number of liberal activists and the Hollywood crowd. Its an anybody but Quinn feeling from the electorate and the liberal political establishment. Quinn paid a heavy price for cozying up to Bloomberg, especially on the term limits when 85% of registered voters did not even vote in that election, and of the 15% that voted, Bloomberg only got 51% of the vote against no name Thompson who had no money.
NYC was in a death spiral until republican mayors corrected it. You lemmings just automatically vote democrat and don't even know why.
In practice and in essence Guliani and Bloomberg ran on the Republican ticket but at heart these folks were not true Republicansin sense .Both mayors seemed pretty liberal to me. Me I vote for the best man and not along party lines. Also not people also vote along, racial and ethnic lines.
For the first time in my voting life, I'm planning on whoring my vote for extremely selfish reasons, but only if diBlasio clears the Democratic primary, which I cannot vote in as a registered independent. I have a family to think about now and a lot of friends who are cozy with the tall one fom Brooklyn.
I am a little confused, what did Quinn have to do with Bloomies term limits?
but by the sound of it, I am not liking her to much.
I too am going de Blasio.
and I want Ray Kelly out.
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For me its either Bill De Blasio or John Liu. I just want a Mayor who can make NYC livable again, reduce income inequality, improve job prospects and improve education.
