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It's not that Giuliani couldn't go anywhere, he didn't want to.
His run for President was an epic failure. He dropped out of the Senate race against Clinton years before supposedly due to cancer, but it was also when his polls were dropping.
Those were two lost opportunities. Oh, and Trump didn´t give him a serious cabinet position.
Being mayor of NYC means you have gotten the political kiss of death.
Name one politically prominent former mayor of NYC. You cannot due to the nation as a whole hating NYC.
It´s not like any amazing politician was running against him. Mayor of NYC is a politically DEAD job, after being mayor of NYC one basically has to leave politics. Even Giuliani, who ended his second term on a good note, could not get anywhere.
Again, I still don't see why people bring this up as a bad thing. NYC has a larger population and budget than most states. And the mayor has more power over city government than most governors have over their states (not to mention a higher national profile than most governors). If you end your political career as being Mayor of New York City, so what???
And Giuliani tried to run for office more than 5 years removed from being mayor (I don't count his Senate campaign, which he ended due to health reasons before the campaign got into full swing). With an increasingly conservative Republican Party, it was no shock that a liberal Republican from NYC (who ran as a liberal Republican politician on several key issues) didn't gain much traction in the 2008 GOP presidential primary.
On name recognition alone, he can easily get a job fronting some non-profit organization. It won't affect his sleeping habits, tardiness issues or gym habits
Opinion:
My mother is bigger than him.................Haha...
Seriously...She is.....he's an.... itty... bitty of a thing.
I'd feel safer with Brock Lesnar at the helm...........Haha..
Simple, he has to raise taxes. Liberals like him only tax and spend.
He has been getting crazy new tax revenue from all the increased property tax assessments, hikes on commercial property taxes, and all of the Bloomberg-era condo boom tax abatements expiring during his term. In fact, he inherited $30 billion more per year in tax revenue. It does take a certain talent to completely blow an extra $30 billion per year on top of the Bloomberg-era budgets with nothing to show for it though.
You mean all the working poor are pushed out of town. New affordable housing has been built for the welfare poor. And the housing projects are not going anywhere.
The problem is neither Andrew or Billy is capable of dealing with certain structural economic issues.
There used to be a lot more working-class jobs in manufacturing and in back-office functions. As those jobs left the city, so did the city tax base. So the city became addicted to high real estate taxes for a tax base- Manufacturing left NYC along time ago, and Bloomberg rezoned the neighborhoods for corporate development. Back office functions were moved out to the suburbs or overseas.
So people who don´t have Harvard MBAs or are not the children of CEOs are dependent on SERVICE sector jobs, which cannot pay for outrageous NYC rents. Americans don´t have to put up with this, so the city is dependent upon immigrants and will remain so for quite sometime.
Agreed. The "nonworking" poor are here to stay. Its the working poor who will leave. When they do all of those who complain about them complain when restaurants close down, app based food is not available, and no supermarkets exist. When hospitals and schools close because there are no nurses or teachers and there is no childcare available.
A city cannot exist on just techs, VC and PE people alone. In fact the more rich people who live in a location the more low paid service workers are needed.
It´s not like any amazing politician was running against him. Mayor of NYC is a politically DEAD job, after being mayor of NYC one basically has to leave politics. Even Giuliani, who ended his second term on a good note, could not get anywhere.
That's why DeB is trying to get his wife anointed as the Queen of Brooklyn. I will be shocked if happened so he will have to get rid of his tenant and go find a job. He didn't do himself any favors with his pathetic run for the presidency.
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