Posted on 01/03/2005 1:16:57 AM PST by nickcarraway
January 3, 2005 -- Mayor Bloomberg kicked off the new year — and his re-election campaign — by picking up an endorsement from one of the most influential black ministers in the city yesterday.
Rev. Floyd Flake, a former Democratic congressman who preaches to the 10,000-member congregation at The Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, said Bloomberg was "the most qualified candidate."
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A flake backs Bloomberg? How about being a little more specific? There are so many...
Blackout? We have no [stinkin] blackout. -- Mayor Bloomberg during the really BIG blackout.
[He didn't say stinkin. But it would have been very mayoral if he had. More mayoral than his actual statements to the press].
I happen to respect Floyd Flake, but I can just imagine the uproar if Cardinal Egan had made a public political endorsement. Black churches and religious are held to different standards.
It's the same story everywhere. If a minister calls on his flock to vote pro-Life, the Dems descend like locusts and threaten the tax-exempt status of his church. Meanwhile, the First AME doubles as a church and Left-wing candidate & cause promotion stage with nary a peep from those same "separation of church and state" Leftists.
Bloomberg actually was a Democrat, but ran as a Republican because the Democrat clubhouse was too crowded.
About all you can say in his favor is that he was better than Mark Green. And that's not saying much. But he's about as good as New York is likely to get, except in those rare periods when the people rise up in disgust against corruption and elect a LaGuardia or a Giuliani. Dinkins was so bad he allowed Giuliani to happen. No, I wouldn't touch Giuliani for president, but he was a great mayor.
I must need glasses...I thought this was a story about "fake blacks"... you know..what the NAACP calls conservative blacks..
Flake is certainly far more conservative than most blacks, but him endorsing the RINO's RINO, Bloomberg, does nothing to reenforce that notion...
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