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yet fail to realize that any generous contract De Blasio gives these labor unions and other special interest groups, will cost the tax payer including the complainers of the fare hike, way more than that $.50 cents MTA hike.
Bloomberg gave out many generous contractsk the reason why the city has seen its indebtedness rise significantly. The Guiliani regime was so packed with the crooked and the corrupt....people like the Hardings (father and son) that you ought to stop crowning him as the Messiah.
Lhota and his "mentor" Rudy don't have a clue on how to improve the city today, not in 1995. The moment it dawned to him that corporations were shrinking in the city, his response was to take the tax cut page out of the GOP script then make the rounds among the merchants in the boroughs.
IfThat's the real deal. Lhota does not have what it takes, and neither does de Blasio.
Now this I can endorse. De Blasio doesnt know Economics 101. Lhota is floating on some cloud ranting about wars that ended 20 years ago.
I have yet to hear a sensible idea out of any as to how they plan to make the city more affordable, or how to generate better jobs, or how to prepare NYers for 21st century cutting edge jobs.
NYC govt remains as sloppy and inefficient as it was under Koch/Dinkins, despite those who crown Giuliani as the Second Coming of Christ. Our business man mayor lacked the constituencies to goverm, and so caved in with expensive union contracts in his first two terms.
Giuliani had but one claim to fame. He accidentally happened to be a couple blocks away from the worst disaster ever to befall New York City...and he had his baseball cap with him.
That made him a "hero" in the eyes of the dimwitted.
What the Giuliani lovers fail to remember is, but for 9/11, his legacy would have been that of an angry and divisive mayor with two kids who hated him. He even fought with his police commissioner Bratton, who was critical to reducing crime, his main claim to fame. The guy left and look who replaced him...a felon.
Yes, thats right KK. Jaywalkers. Someone like yourself can't understand that but the idea Guiliani was pushing was the "Broken Window" theory which basically states that by focusing on small petty crimes such as graffiti, panhandling (squeegee men), Jaywalking, open beer cans in public, loitering, etc. the overall PERCEPTION of the public towards the city would improve and have a positive trickle effect on crime. And guess what KK? He was right!
Broken Window theory was Bill Bratton's which he used in Boston prior to coming to NYC. Giuliani was enraged that Bratton was being given credit for reducingcrime and raganed against him so Bratton left for LA, where he also did a good job, given the problems of that city.
Lhota and his "mentor" Rudy don't have a clue on how to improve the city today, not in 1995. The moment it dawned to him that corporations were shrinking in the city, his response was to take the tax cut page out of the GOP script then make the rounds among the merchants in the boroughs.
Oh yes all of those delis and restaurants are going to preserve NYC as a global city.
I am just astounded about how bereft of ideas Lhota is and I wonder who is running his campaign thinking trhat a liberal city like NYC cares what de Blasio did as a college kid 25 years ago.
De Blasio should be an easy target to attract many moderates and indenpents but Lhota seems to think that he is running in West VA where to scream that the opponent is a Liberal wins elections.
But no wonder. Aside from fighting crime I dont recall Giuliani having any great ideas either, and even that is credited to Bratton.
What a bunch of haters towards Giuliani! Give the man credit for changing NYC for the better.
In what way? If I am going to give any one credit it will be Bloomberg in his first two terms. Sadly his last term became a disaster when his imperial designs made him run senile.
NYC was still a vulnerable city in 2001, which is why many corporations were still contemplating leaving the city.
So why is he wasting time babbling about Sandanistas? Really how many NYers know or care who the Sandinistas were, or consider them bad when the alternative was Somoza?
Lhota has yet to give a convincing answer as to how he will improve the City, or reduce the income divides and social polarization. Chatter about reducing taxes impresses no one when we recall where George Bush landed the economy.
That's very telling.
He would likely prefer to behave like a military dictator supported by the "landed families," i.e., like Somoza.
Lhota has a lisp. It was passed on to him from Giuliani during oral.
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