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I'm Jewish, and live in NYC. I never saw him getting any pushback from any directly Jewish groups. As you said, the municipal and teacher's unions (which at one time were dominated by Jews, but not so much any more), hated him, because he wouldn't give them what the wanted.
But overall, I think he had a lot of support from the Jewish community.
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Originally Posted by Brighton Beach DJB
Jewish vote was split. Unlike some places in USA with small Jewish community, NYC has so many Jews that they are not one block. I would split NYC Jews 4 ways
1. Rich American Secular Jews that live in Manhattan and nice parts of brooklyn like park slope. Bloomberg was very pro-business so I am assuming they like him
2. Orthodox religious Jews in Williamsburg and crown heights and Boro Park, they liked like him because he pandered to them by keeping their parts of Williamsburg from being gentrified
3. Working class secular American Jews, many of these people are Union members and such and don't like him
4. Immigrant Jews (former Soviet Union) was split. I didn't like him but I prefer him to de Blasio because I don't like socialism
Jewish vote was split. Unlike some places in USA with small Jewish community, NYC has so many Jews that they are not one block. I would split NYC Jews 4 ways
1. Rich American Secular Jews that live in Manhattan and nice parts of brooklyn like park slope. Bloomberg was very pro-business so I am assuming they like him
2. Orthodox religious Jews in Williamsburg and crown heights and Boro Park, they liked like him because he pandered to them by keeping their parts of Williamsburg from being gentrified
3. Working class secular American Jews, many of these people are Union members and such and don't like him
4. Immigrant Jews (former Soviet Union) was split. I didn't like him but I prefer him to de Blasio because I don't like socialism
This is a good assessment of the "Jewish vote" of which there are actually several. In the US as a whole a majority would fit closet to category 1 - pretty well-off, Reform or secular and are very liberal on social issues. 2, 3 and 4 together would outnumber 1 in New York but not in the US as a whole.
The split in the Jewish vote has been evident since the 1960s - John Lindsay did well among affluent Jews in Manhattan but was unpopular among working class and lower middle class Jews in the outer boroughs.
Why this is my opinion tho. I am not saying he is like Stalin or Khrushchev but he is talking a lot about making income equality by re distributing wealth. I am not rich quite the opposite but I make it like many others. If he wants to see a tale of two cities he should go to a 3rd world country and see what it is like. This is the way of the world some people will be rich some people will be poor some people will start poor and be rich and some will die hungry, that is the worlds order. Bloomberg made people unhappy in his final term and de blasio won by being anti-Bloomberg and because of his sons skin color...
There's absolutely no reason for anyone to die hungry in the US or in NY. Btw, before and after de Blasio the US has had social safety nets for quite some time.
Basically voters thought it was in their best interest to vote for someone who addressed income inequality. Many of the workers in NYC make at or near the minimum wage and those people have to live somewhere.
He promised to do what he could to address the housing issue for low income people (who are needed to important service sector, retail, and low end office jobs).
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