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It would be great if Bloomberg could get elected mayor of Detroit. That city desperately needs someone like Bloomberg to pull them out of the hole they are in.
It's all a balance. Sometimes a city needs a mayor like Bloomberg to put a city into a better financial position and if that is successful then it might be time for a leader who goes in a different direction for awhile.
I won't miss the more blatant Bloombergisms (ie his war on smoking, soda, etc..) He had his nanny-ish moments.
But he was solidly and properly pro-business and pro-development, he was completely independent (not needing to beg to campaign contributors and the unions for money to get elected), and he knew what not to screw with (the policies that Giuliani put it place that worked so well.)
Now we have Bla, who will be and do none of those things, and it going to screw up twenty years of progress.
Yeah, sad to see Bloomberg go. I think he did a good job for NY.
I was a manager at one of the many bloomberg offices during the 2005 campaign.
After 2005 he turned in this big liberal bully. He turned nyc into a police state. He went against gun rights. He became Mr. Nanny. Worst of all he forced apartment buildings to abandon the cheaper number 6 oil and force apartment buildings to spend hundreds of thousand retrofitting or installing new boilers and systems.
He does deserve credit though for bringing nyc back after 9/11 and being good for business to a point where we were ok after 2008. I guess that's why he was reelected twice.
I was a manager at one of the many bloomberg offices during the 2005 campaign.
After 2005 he turned in this big liberal bully. He turned nyc into a police state. He went against gun rights. He became Mr. Nanny. Worst of all he forced apartment buildings to abandon the cheaper number 6 oil and force apartment buildings to spend hundreds of thousand retrofitting or installing new boilers and systems.
He does deserve credit though for bringing nyc back after 9/11 and being good for business to a point where we were ok after 2008. I guess that's why he was reelected twice.
and bought his third.
he broke the law. by him doing that, to me, defeated anything he ever did for the good.
there are term limits, he changed them and then changed them back.
he broke the law.
I am glad he is gone, good. it is about time.
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