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With Wink at Green Light, Mayor Makes a Sharp Left (Bloomberg )
New York Times ^ | February 10, 2006 | JIM RUTENBERG

Posted on 02/10/2006 8:39:44 AM PST by West Coast Conservative

With his decisive re-election victory behind him, Michael R. Bloomberg has been acting more like the man he once was before he entered politics: namely, like a Democrat.

Freed from the political considerations of a campaign and with no aspirations for higher office, Mr. Bloomberg seems to be shedding his already thin Republican skin, and has taken a number of positions that are fully, even aggressively, at odds with the party he joined months before his 2001 mayoral run.

Witness:

Last week, Mr. Bloomberg donated $100 million to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, "anonymously," and stipulated that part of the money be used for stem cell research, which is anathema to the Republicans' core base of anti-abortion voters because human embryos are often destroyed in the process of gathering stem cells.

He used his inaugural address to declare war on illegal guns by calling for new gun control laws and took a swipe at a group that supports his party nationally, the National Rifle Association.

He has taken on Gov. George E. Pataki, a fellow Republican, on financing for New York City schools and has moved to muscle his way into the rebuilding of ground zero, one of the governor's major initiatives.

And, in perhaps his most telling salvo, this week his aides said that he was considering supporting a Democratic challenger against one of the State Senate's longest-standing Republican lions, Serphin R. Maltese of Queens, this fall. Such a move would be an affront to the majority leader of the Senate, Joseph L. Bruno, whose Republicans hold control of the chamber by a thin margin.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; newyorkcity; nyc; nycmayor; republican; rino; rinowatch

1 posted on 02/10/2006 8:39:46 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

This is what nyc wants and deserves. That's all.


2 posted on 02/10/2006 8:40:55 AM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: West Coast Conservative

With his decisive re-election victory behind him, Michael R. Bloomberg has been acting more like the man he once was before he entered politics: namely, like a Democrat.



If this surprises anyone, you should be slapped so hard that generations from now your descendants will stop, put their hand to the side of their head and say, "What the hell was that!?"


3 posted on 02/10/2006 8:42:10 AM PST by trubluolyguy (Where did they get those ref's, the WWE?)
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To: West Coast Conservative
For Bloomberg to make a sharp left he would have to go from raging leftist to full blown Marxist.

He is a very leftist liberal democrat and always has been. He only registered as a republican because he knew he would have a virtually impossible go of it in the democrat primary to get the mayoral nomination so he took the easy path and switched to the GOP for an almost virtual lock on the nomination.

4 posted on 02/10/2006 8:43:21 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Last week, Mr. Bloomberg donated $100 million to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, "anonymously,"

Oxymoron??? How do you donate "anonymously" and yet people know you did it???

5 posted on 02/10/2006 8:47:47 AM PST by dawn53
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To: West Coast Conservative

There are lots of Republicans who support stem cell research.

Why shouldn't the mayor of NY have strong input into the 9/11 memorial?

I don't knowthis particular state senator he opposes but I don't automatically support someone because of their stated party.

He's totally wrong on gun control, of course, but I don't remeber Guiliani reducing hand gun controls either - the mayors reflect the NYC population.

So honestly I don't see a lot that is new here.


6 posted on 02/10/2006 8:49:17 AM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: West Coast Conservative; SheLion
Bloominidiot has NEVER been a conservative.
He switched partys only so he could run for mayor, and the Republicans LET him.

Sorry to the conservatives that live in NYC, but NYC is getting what it deserve for electing this freakin leftist.

SheLion, Bloominidiot bump.

7 posted on 02/10/2006 8:51:28 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: trubluolyguy
What would NYers be saying right about now if it had been Mark Green who had been elected Mayor.

Chill out and consider the alternative to Mayor Blooming-idiot.

9 posted on 02/10/2006 9:19:35 AM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

The reason he's mayor is that the Republican Party has no principles except seizing power and our money.


10 posted on 02/10/2006 9:21:03 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: gondramB
If he's OK with New Yorkers I guess that's all that matters. After all, they loved John Lindsey, too. However, I also reserve the right not to donate money to an organization like the RNC if they give one penny to his campaign. Let New York voters support his campaign with their money. The same goes for any Rino running for office.
11 posted on 02/10/2006 9:29:23 AM PST by Russ
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To: William Creel

I like his name even better. ;-)


12 posted on 02/10/2006 9:37:48 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

New York ping.


13 posted on 02/10/2006 9:41:44 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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To: Alberta's Child

This guy is an embarrassment to the GOP, but fits well in NYC.


14 posted on 02/10/2006 6:48:24 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

I think you summed him up perfectly!


15 posted on 02/10/2006 7:18:52 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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To: Alberta's Child

LOL! How are you doing, AC?


16 posted on 02/10/2006 7:21:04 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul
I'm doing OK -- how are you?

Sorry for disappearing for a while . . . it's supposed to snow heavily tomorrow, and I needed to get a few things from the grocery store.

17 posted on 02/10/2006 8:10:01 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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