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To: TakeChargeBob
He took a downtrodden, crime-filled, racially charged, broke city and turned it around.

That's even true:

Who really cleaned up New York? In the early 1990s, former Mayor Dinkins put 6,000 more police officers on the street.

* The city's murder rate -- from 1990 to 1993 -- fell by 13.7 percent, robbery fell by 14.6 percent, burglary fell by 17.6 percent, and auto theft fell by 23.8 percent.

* The city's crime rate dropped in all seven FBI major-felony categories for the first time in nearly four decades at the end of the Dinkins adminstration.

* The notorious porn shops and movie houses along 42nd Street had already been shut down before Rudy took office.

* The last graffiti-covered subway car had been taken off the line in 1989, under Mayor Ed Koch who preceded Dinkins.

393 posted on 10/20/2007 5:32:51 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: Ol' Sparky
Who really cleaned up New York? In the early 1990s, former Mayor Dinkins .....

What conservative knows details of Mayor Dinkins term? Much less touts Dinkins in front of Giuliani?

Ol' Sparky. So you're the Hillary worker on the thread. How much does Soros pay anyway? How dumb of me not to have guessed right off.

401 posted on 10/20/2007 5:48:40 PM PDT by narby
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To: Ol' Sparky

It is obvious that you are not from New York.

The Dinkins administration was miserable. By far the worst in my lifetime. That was the main reason that a Republican could win the mayoral election in NY. Rudy came in and turned the city around. The difference was demonstrable. By the way, Rudy’s criticisms did not come from conservatives.


418 posted on 10/20/2007 8:02:22 PM PDT by TakeChargeBob
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