That sentence and the title remind me of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, "Is this the end of RICO"?
Rent control is one of the main reasons that more affordable housing is NOT built. The market sets the amount of the rent, and the market delivers the housing. If the housing is too expensive it will either lie vacant, or will be rented to people who can afford it.
"the guy from the block who works hard for the party doesn't stand much chance"
Good old Chuckie Rangel. Hey, Chuckie, "the guy who works hard for the party" may not be the citizens' choice of a leader. How about someone who works for the people?
Democratic leaders say a lack of unity weakens party efforts to build more affordable housing, rein in apartment rents, allow gay marriage and battle for more school aid from Albany.
My God, it sounds like the Labour Party (New Zealand)!
Ping!
Imagine if the mayor were a REAL Republican.
What is this "Democratic" challenger? I can't seem to find him on the ballot.
I can find a Democrat challenger but not a Democratic challenger.
Bloomberg could have spent 1/10th of what he did - and still won. The Dems are all children, until they field a candidate who appears to be an adult, people here are going to be reluctant to turn over the capital city of the world to a child to run.
The Rs need to start grooming a candidate for 2009 - Ray Kelly, Bernard Kerik, Bill Bratton.
LOL. Democrats championed "campaign finance reform". Now it bites off their a$$.
A preposterous supposition from an enterprise doomed to be renowned as an irrelevant waste of trees,as if the re-election of King Bloomberg is nothing more than the voters distinction between hardcore communist and the regular NYC breed of socialist crook baby killing sex pervert.
Bloomberg is about as Republican as FDR, and hasn't done a thing to decrease the tax burden on those American citizens foolish enough to reside in NYC.
If Bloomberg was honestly a "Republican", the NooYawkers would have hung him out to dry a long time ago, alongside of "Rudy"!
We need to be more careful about who we let share our defining name.
The only people in this city who see gay "marriage" as a pressing political issue are Christine Quinn, Tom Duane, and Margarita Lopez.
This is one of the primary reasons that Democrats are so manifestly unpopular, the coastal regions of this country notwithstanding.
A sense of misplaced priorities.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Democrats still have an incredible about of political power in nyc. City Hall eludes them, but almost every other citywide position (and city representation in Albany & DC) is overwhelmingly dem.
Sadly, the Dems have a lock on the City Council, 4 of the 5 borough presidencies and, in another four years, they'll have City Hall back when Bloomberg hits term limits. There aint another Rudy out there.
To all of you people one there who couldn't find New York City on a map, but wring your hands about electing a rino, consider this: When Bloomberg kicks freddy's ass all over the city, he will be showing huge numbers of minority voters that they can vote for a Republican without the world coming to an end. Look, people don't vote Democrat all their lives and then flip. This doesn't happen to individuals let along historically robotic Black and Hispanic voters. To the contrary, the first move is for people to either take a quick jump over ( very small) but then follow this path, they 1) don't vote at all 2) they vote some third party or Indy 3) they finally vote Republican and stay there. Bloomy will lead hundreds of thousands of minority voters to the first step. This will be very bad news for the rats all over but especially for the beast who will now NOT have such an easy ride next year and thereafter.
The days of Party hacks like Freddie and Dinkins are over.
Freddie cannot win. He is losing in every single demographic except the Hispanic vote, and even there it is close.
It remains to be seen if this says anything about "a Democratic city" . It speaks more to the competence and experience of the Mayor versus an ineffectual nothing of a candidate like Freddie.
The two golden rules of American politics : "all politics is local" and "you can't beat something with nothing"
NYC is no where near as liberal as people think it is.
Paris Burning could impact the election.
They may have tried to make New Yorkers forget 9/11 but TROP is making them remember.
The whole premise of this article is silly, especially since there weren't even any Republican candidates on the ballot for the other city-wide races.