Posted on 02/28/2007 12:54:11 PM PST by pissant
NEW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he will go back to Albany next week to push to keep rent controls on more than 1 million apartments, and to urge Republican leaders to come around to his position.
``I believe that we should continue rent stabilization and rent control,'' the mayor said. ``I will continue to oppose'' their elimination.
The mayor is scheduled to spend much of Thursday at the Capitol, meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and other leaders.
Giuliani is at odds over rent control with fellow Republican Gov. George Pataki and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, who have proposed revamping rent laws.
State laws regulating the rents of more than 1 million apartments, mostly in New York City, are set to expire June 15.
Bruno has sought the virtual abolition of rent controls, which date to the end of World War II. Silver, like Giuliani, wants the regulations extended.
Pataki's plan would decontrol households with incomes above $175,000 a year, except for people over 62 or the disabled. Rent controls for other tenants would continue until they and their families vacate or die.
In recent private talks among legislative leaders, Silver has revealed he may willing to permit the rent-regulated apartments of some high-income tenants to be decontrolled, according to news reports.
Under current law, renters with household incomes of $250,000 or more who live in apartments renting for at least $2,000 a month do not qualify for rent control, which stabilizes rent prices.
Silver ``would like to take it down from $250,000 to maybe $225,000, something like that,'' Bruno told the New York Post and the Daily News.
Giuliani told reporters Pataki is making a mistake by trying to lower the threshold.
``If the governor wants to protect 99 percent of New Yorkers, he's going to have to move that level all the way up, closer to the $250,000 where it's presently at,'' the mayor said.
On Friday, Bruno said a compromise on the rent issue, which has stalled the state budget and other issues such as welfare reform, was up to Silver.
``The message (from Giuliani) ought to be that unless they get to the table and do something before (June) 15th, they are going to see every tenant deregulated,'' Bruno said.
Silver spokeswoman Patricia Lynch did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment but told the Post, ``We've always been willing to discuss tinkering around the edges, including with luxury decontrol.''
A major stumbling block to an agreement on rent protections is vacancy decontrol.
Do people still have doubts as to who this guy really is ?
Rent Control- check
McCain Feingold - check (though he wants to close the loopholes)
Gun Control - check (though he won't trample hunter's rights)
Abortion on Demand - check
Civil Unions - check
Gays in the Military - check
Hate Crimes laws - check
Global warming alarmist - check
Mario Cuomo Supporter - check
Friend to Illegal Aliens- check
Supports the Stonewall "vets" - check
Rudy Giuliani born...
see, it proves he is a RINO
You're looking in the wrong place. You won't find his name with Rudy's in the Liberal/socialist directory.
But, but, Nixon did wage and price controls, and they were peachy.
/sarc
I think his "liberalism" crosses the line and becomes fascism.
You forgot "endorsed by the Liberal Party of New York"
Just because some guy did ok managing a city following a disaster, doesn't automatically make him President material. Thats a HUGE mistake to go down that line of thinking.
And this guy wants to be "President"?,
Did he even take economics in school? And he wants the rest of NY republicans to go along with "his" position; it's scary what would his proposals be as POTUS..?
I will not support socialism (well I guess this ends you Rudy supporters claiming he is a "fiscal hawk"..).
Dear pissant,
You forgot a few:
Endorsed James Florio - D, for Governor of New Jersey
Initially opposed Bush tax cuts of 2001
Opposed federal welfare reform of 1996
Favored using civil forfeiture laws to seize automobiles of persons ACQUITTED of drunk driving (this one always makes me chuckle when I see folks claim that Mr. Giuliani is a libertarian)
sitetest
This is BERKELEY liberal. This is a fiscal conservative?
Some cold hearted people in this thread.
I think his "liberalism" crosses the line and becomes fascism.
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That sad part about the political system is that you never know what a person will DO, which is the only thing that matters, until after they are in office. Both Clinton and Bush, in their individual ways, were CLASSIC examples of that. IMO, we know EXACTLY what Hitlery will do, but Rudy is still a mystery on certain issues, especially the ones where he is clearly a RINO. Talk is cheap and only actions count -- that is the downside.
THe Rudy Rotorooters can't BULEAVE that their man is like that NOW though.
He's turned over a new leaf and would never be a socialist mayor of the United Socialist States of America. ( sarc.)
**well I guess this ends you Rudy supporters claiming he is a "fiscal hawk"**
Oh, btw, I like Rudy. But I'm not supporting him for President. Just fyi.
Good find. Maybe he can put price controls on houses for all the poor people who can't afford one right now. Or maybe price controls on food like comrade chavez has done in Venezuela. I won't drink no rudy-aid.
Uh, isn't Giuliani's qualification for President his Mayoral office in NYC? It isn't pissant's fault that Giuliani term as Mayor included 1997.
Hey, pissant, if Giuliani supporting rent control is some sort of conservative apostasy (which it is), how is it different than DH's protectionist "fair trade" issue? Both involve the Government trying to get a free lunch for special interests by distorting the market.
Since you like to quote Thomas Sowell :
Whole political movements are based on a refusal to accept that benefits have costs. Protectionism is just one of these movements.
The fan of the Raven is chiding the Crow for his blackness.
Exactly. Not like anybody can get elected Mayor in NYC opposing it, even though it's a stupid thing.
Actually, if they could BUILD MORE APARTMENTS in NYC, rent control wouldn't be necessary.
And note, this is from a guy who rather likes Hunter, but also lives in the real world.
" Nixon did wage and price controls"
And you should have heard how angry my father was at the Repubs at the time. He is conservative first, as am I.
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