Posted on 09/12/2013 6:06:12 AM PDT by jimbo123
With one eye on the recount, presumptive Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio has already begun tacking toward the middle for his upcoming mayoral showdown against Joe Lhota, analysts say.
It began with his celebratory speech late Tuesday night, when the far-left candidate highlighted the importance of law and order in the wake of 9/11.
“He already tonally and rhetorically walked it back [from the left] when he focused on safety and 9/11 primary night,” said Mark Green, a former Democratic candidate for mayor.
De Blasio has often ripped top cop Ray Kelly and backs major reforms of NYPD policies.
But after his primary win, he told hundreds gathered for the party in Brooklyn that “the job of those of us in positions of authority is to keep our city safe, to be constantly vigilant and to use every tool at our disposal to protect our people.”
The move toward the center is the norm post-primary
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Not surprising De Blasio took a page from the Dinkins playbook.
DeB worked for the Dinkins campaign.....the place where he met his wife.
But to suggest Dinkins was a “crime fighter”.....an overstatement at best.
Dinkins preside over a 4 day long pogrom in Bed-Stuy, when he wouldn’t allow the police to stop the riotingf and looting..
De Blasio has said for awhile now that he would end the “stop-and-frisk” police policy, which has been instrumental in keeping crime down.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that doing that would let the thugs run free & unrestricted again - just like during Dinkins awful tenure.
So good mention of Dinkins - cuz those terrible years are what de Blasio will bring New York back to, if voters are stupid enough to put this guy in power.
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WIKI In 1997, de Blasio was appointed to serve as the Regional Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for New York and New Jersey under the administration of President Bill Clinton. (SUB PRIME BILK?) As the tri-state region’s highest-ranking HUD official, de Blasio increased federal funding for affordable and senior-citizen housing.[8] In 1999, he was elected a member of Community School Board 15.[9] De Blasio was tapped to serve as campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's successful United States Senate bid in 2000.[9]
Lemme think now.....who was at the head of HUD at that time?
He went to the funeral of a drug-dealer killed in a shoot-out with the NYPD, as I recall—Kiki Camerena, right?
That would be Andrew, I believe.
Hmmmmm....Clinton, Cuomo, DiBlassi...I wonder if there is a pattern here?
Sorry for the goof. The drug dealer was Kiko Garcia. Kiki Camarena was on our team. He was an agent for DEA who was murdered by the Mexican drug gangsters.
Garcia picked a fight with an NYPD cop and lost. The drug-dealing community in Washington Heights was outraged, and protested in the streets. Dinkins 1) met with the family privately; and 2) used taxpayer money to pay for the punk's funeral in the Dominican Republic.
There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the final years of the Clinton administration, when a kid from Queens without any real banking or real-estate experience was the only man in Washington with the power to regulate the giants of home finance, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.
What he did is important—not just because of what it tells us about how we got in this hole, but because of what it says about New York's attorney general (now gov), who has been trying for months to don a white hat in the subprime scandal, pursuing cases against banks, appraisers, brokers, rating agencies, and multitrillion-dollar, quasi-public Fannie and Freddie. . . (Excerpt) Read more at villagevoice.com ...
Yeah-—Kiki Camarena was a good guy.
I know. But Andy’s capers go back much farther than that. ‘Though a neophyte at the time, he was hip deep in the WedTech scandal back in the 80s.
WHen he left HUD he had some $18 million in the bank-—and God knows how much wire-transferred offshore.
You watch, if the old man is still alive, he will be calling in chits from all over for Andy’s POTUS run.
How many billions $ came off the top of the NYC real estate market yesterday?
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