Well, no, you idiot. That was during the Dinkins administration. Remember, Dinkie was the one who used city money to pay to have the body of a drug dealer who was killed in a shoot-out with the NYPD flown back to whatever country he came from (of course, he was here illegally) *and* for the funeral, all because the dead dealer just happened to be black.
He also stood by for the first couple of days of the Crown Heights riots, to "let them get it out of their systems" and then took a visible role in the racially-motivated boycott of a Korean grocer. Nurse Goonberg probably idolizes fellow leftist moron Dinkins.
"He made all the decisions . . . particularly when it came to police and fire. Rudy wanted to be the PC [police commissioner]. Rudy wanted to be the fire commissioner. He rushed to the fires," Bloomberg says.
Wrong again, you assclown. He rushed to just about every fire not because he's a frustrated firefighter, but because he cared about each and every person in this city and wanted to show those who suffered that he -- and the city -- was there for them. I prefer a mayor like that over an effete snob who just hires "that type of person" to take care of that stuff while he sips champagne at Nobu.
Bloomberg also compares the number of deaths caused by secondhand smoke to the number of people killed in the World Trade Center collapse.
Words fail to describe just what a leftist nitwit he really is.
Bloomberg also suggests he wouldn't be devastated if he loses his re-election bid in 2005.
Nor would much of NYC. Hell, I'll hold a party -- if I haven't been driven out of here by then.
Bloomberg admits that being mayor isn't the "highlight of his career."
Nor is it something for which the city can be particularly proud.
In the nine-page article, Bloomberg also targets Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, citing him as a politician who spends his entire term running for re-election.
OK, I'll give him that one. Then again, even a stopped clock is right twice a day...