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Bill de Blasio On Horse-Drawn Carriage Industry: "It's Over"
NY Daily News ^ | December 30, 2013 | Erin Durkin

Posted on 12/31/2013 7:05:50 AM PST by george76

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio vowed to act quickly to abolish horse-drawn carriages in the city.

"We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio said in response to a question at his press conference announcing his schools chancellor pick Monday.

“It’s over,” he said.

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


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To: george76

I’m betting Bill’s popularity is rather short-lived.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes the MSM to turn on him.


101 posted on 12/31/2013 8:03:26 AM PST by G Larry
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To: george76

Better call my broker and put in a sell order on those shares of Beefareeno....


102 posted on 12/31/2013 8:06:40 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: G Larry
I’m betting Bill’s popularity is rather short-lived.

Wholly agreed. His mouth has written so many checks he can't possibly cash, I've lost count.


103 posted on 12/31/2013 8:08:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: G Larry

They will turn on him when he turns Conservative or doesn’t kiss Obama’s ass properly. Other that that, hell will freeze over first.


104 posted on 12/31/2013 8:08:12 AM PST by sport
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To: george76

Good.

New Yorkers don’t deserve anything at all.


105 posted on 12/31/2013 8:08:38 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: tet68
Reminds me of the old joke......a guy in the circus was complaining how he hated following the horses aroound with a shovel, scooping up the manure. His buddy says "well if you hate it so much, why don't you quit?"

"What....and give up show business?"

106 posted on 12/31/2013 8:09:13 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Black Agnes

Maybe it will keep some of the out-of-towners away.


107 posted on 12/31/2013 8:09:52 AM PST by firebrand
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To: upchuck

“The liberalism causes the mental illness.”

It seems likely that thinking like a liberal further damages the mind, but I think that liberalism is itself a mental illness.


108 posted on 12/31/2013 8:11:21 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: george76

I hope de Blasio gets each and every one of his initiatives passed.

Good start with the horses!..Maybe he can commission electric cars with horse bodies and maybe a single horn on the forehead...or maybe hydrogen fuel cell ones that emit puffs of water vapor...rainbow colored vapor.

The people of New York City deserve and have earned their entry into this socialist paradise. They deserve every tax and fee they are going to get.

The exodus from the state has begun...can’t wait for the city to start bleeding Yorkers....


109 posted on 12/31/2013 8:11:51 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Puppage

Good one.


110 posted on 12/31/2013 8:12:21 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: george76

What a moron, he will be a complete disaster and everything he does will effect the state in one way or another.


111 posted on 12/31/2013 8:12:30 AM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: Adder

Yeah it’ll be really funny until the Feds bail out NYC....again.


112 posted on 12/31/2013 8:13:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: sport

They’ll turn on him because as a Mayor he can’t possibly fulfill his campaign pledge to “fix” income inequality.


113 posted on 12/31/2013 8:13:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: The Mayor
What a moron, he will be a complete disaster and everything he does will effect the state in one way or another.

You mean when the US Taxpayers bail out NYC again, it will effect EVERYONE.

114 posted on 12/31/2013 8:14:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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At first I thought this was satire.

Mayor-elect DeBozo is going to be a nightmare.


115 posted on 12/31/2013 8:15:11 AM PST by Rockpile
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To: chiefqc

What’s horrifying is that he is destroying businesses of regular people without a second thought. How I hate liberals.


116 posted on 12/31/2013 8:15:12 AM PST by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: ScottinVA

Striking a blow at affluence (or the appearance of) is probably a secondary consideration/added benefit.

Bill won the Dem primary partly on appealing to PETA and other animal rights fanatics, who WILL vote single issue, by promising to get rid of the carriages.

Keep in mind that the real danger (or, to non NYC Conservatives, the benefit) of Deblasio is that he’s in no way beholden to the wealthy Manhattan Liberal power elite which would otherwise act as a political check on his extremism.


117 posted on 12/31/2013 8:17:58 AM PST by tanknetter (L)
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To: george76

so the horses can stop being slaves to humans and go to a slaughter house?
Sounds like PETA would approve


118 posted on 12/31/2013 8:22:52 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: G Larry
De Blasio said he would work with existing drivers to set them up with alternative vehicles to ferry tourists around Central Park.


119 posted on 12/31/2013 8:23:18 AM PST by slumber1 (Fortune favors the bold!)
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To: slumber1

120 posted on 12/31/2013 8:24:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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