WashPost: Bill de Blasio wins mayor’s race in New York, ushering in new era of liberal governance

Wash Post ^ | Phillip Rucker

[tcrlaf]

Bill de Blasio overwhelmingly was elected mayor here Tuesday, becoming the first Democrat to lead New York in 20 years and ushering in an era of activist liberal governance in the nation’s largest city.

In early returns Tuesday night, de Blasio was soundly defeating Republican Joe Lhota, a protégé of former mayor Rudy Giuliani.

De Blasio campaigned on a mantle of progressive change following Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s 12 years in office, highlighting what he saw as “a tale of two cities.” The moneyed Manhattan elite have had their mayor, he argued, and now the 46 percent of New Yorkers living at or near the poverty level need one of their own.

De Blasio’s administration will be a laboratory of sorts for modern progressivism — testing whether an anti-establishment activist can effectively manage a sprawling municipal government and lessen growing inequality between the rich and poor.

[Tzimisce]

He’s going to use Karl Marx’s ideas to help the middle class?

That’s not going to work.

[nutmeg]

I pity New Yorkers , those of whom voted against this piece of pig excrement . I agree , all good folks should get out , abandon ship.

Looks like a new, frightening era is about to begin in New York City. I remember the city in the 1970s. I hope it doesn't regress to the hell hole it was back then...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I only wish the wealthy liberals who destroy cities and states by funding and voting in liberals were forced to stay and endure the consequences of their votes. Instead, they will depart, like locusts who have devastated an area and have nothing left to consume. They will then swarm to an area in which sensible economic policies have created jobs and wealth, vote in liberals, and the cycle continues.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The only uncertainty about NY now is: Communist, Shariah or both?”

Because of “tolerance” and “diversity”, why not both???

[OldNewYork]

It will take a while for that freight-train of failure to pick up speed, but once it gets going again...

[JennysCool]

“Liberal Governance” is on its last legs. Good luck, Bill. You’ve been elected on the wrong side of history.

[Eagles6]

I look for states to start breaking up ala WV / VA.

[9YearLurker]

We have?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

“Liberal governance”? Like saying Hitler’s election in Germany was “ushering in a new era of non-militant governance”.

Leave it up to the Wash Post to coverup for a hardcore communist like DeBlasio and his avowed commie wife.

[Rome2000]

All the good folks left a long time ago
Degenerate animals can fight it out in the concrete jungle, and the Wall street crooks can leave too if the commies try to get too nuts

[Teacher317]

and lessen growing inequality between the rich and poor.

When will the GOP ever get around to debunking this misleading and foolish charge?

The ONLY time the gap between the rich and the poor is NOT growing is when the economy is in decline. Period. Easy example:

You're rich (congrats!), and I'm poor. You have $100 million. I have $100.
By ObamaLaw2015, we MUST invest in exactly the same way. For easy numbers, lets use a 10% rate of return.
After one year, you have $110 million. I have $110.

The "gap" between us grew by just under $10 million... even though we did EXACTLY the same thing!

The ONLY ways for this gap to shrink would be if vast amounts were taken from you evil rich guys, so much so that you gain nothing, or even start losing overall... or if we were both losing at the same rates (total economic decline).

Again, let the Right be VERY clear: The ONLY way the gap can shrink is for the "rich" to never gain a dollar, or for everyone to start losing money together... and in nether system can America's economy stand for very long... and this is what the Left is openly advocating for!!!!

[o-n-money]

I’m beginning to believe that Solzhenitsyn
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I believe in Alexander. The first one that breaks through my door gets an axe to the brain. Hopefully it will make them all think of going to work the next day.

[Timber Rattler]

Back to the 1970s!

[kearnyirish2]

“I pity New Yorkers , those of whom voted against this piece of pig excrement .”

I stopped pitying them when they let Bloomberg have a third term (by amending the laws); they should have voted him out. They reap what they sow...

[driftless2]

That gap has actually been growing since the start of the industrial revolution. And you are correct...the only way to stop the gap is to stop growing the economy. What the gap-agenda people really are arguing for is a complete communist system.

[Incorrigible]

When so the squeegee men start showing up at the Lincoln Tunnel when I’m commuting back to New Jersey?

All I know is that like the last time, the stupid Noooyawkas will move to New Jersey when they realize the horror show that NYC will become and then vote for the same kind of people here.

[silverleaf]

Because Nanny Big Gulp Bloomberg just wasn’t liberal enough...

[snarkytart]

NO! Let them stay, these assholes ruin every city with their evil political views then up and leave and flock to nice red states with lower crime and taxes only to start ruining everything there as well.
These leftest bastards are like locusts. Let them STAY in NYC and live with their mistake.

[SC_Pete]

The exodus will begin now.

[Iron Munro]

Noo Yawkers who miss the David Dinkens era will be happy with their new choice for mayor.