“Koch was maybe the last honest Democrat.”
You must be new here. Koch was a asshole, and dishonest as hell, and the local media went after him on a daily basis. The national media clearly showed everyone he was a clown.
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Save the kneejerk rabid dog response for someone else. Koch endorsed Guiliani for mayor and also Bush 43 for President. Name one other prominent Democrat who did something similar.
Agree, I don’t know what drugs some of the people here are on, but they can’t even figure out Ukraine, so I doubt they have a clue as to what condition NYC was in, during the 1980s.
I lived in NYC most of my life. The Lindsey and Beame administrations were a lot worse. The city really declined in the late 60’s and during the 70’s and set the stage for the 1980’s. Koch had his problems as well but was better than Lindsey and Beame in my opinion.
Don’t forget Stanley Freedman, he was Mane’s partner in crime and Al Damato and the Wedtech Scandal.
I was working in NYC during the last half of the Koch administration and the place was a hell hole.
Close ties to Cuomo the Original
I guess you don’t know about the NYC mayor election in 1977 and the vile whisper campaign “Cuomo, not the homo” against Koch. So much for “tolerant” Democrats. Koch and Cuomo did not get along.