Regrets: Too Many to Mention A Mike Bloomberg voter looks back in sorrow.

Reason.com ^ | October 11, 2002 | James Morrow

[TheToddinator]

I'm not really sure what I expected when I pulled the lever for Mike Bloomberg in the New York City mayoral elections nearly a year ago. Looking back on it, I'm not even sure I expected him to win, considering his 16-point deficit in the polls just a week before the election.

More than anything else, I wanted to at least register my distaste for the opportunistic, weasely Mark Green, whose desperation to live in Gracie Mansion was even more off-putting than Al Gore's lust for the White House.

But Bloomberg did win, thanks in no small part to a last-minute push made possible by his $50 million campaign war chest. Following in the footsteps of a man notorious for his much-maligned quality-of-life campaigns, Bloomberg—an alleged Republican in a Democrat town—was set to run the country's biggest city, and try to turn it into a nanny state more tightly controlled than anything his predecessor, or his state's U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton, could ever imagine.

[Nitro]

Bloomie certainly has turned into a real bite in the ass!!

[Arthur McGowan]

He's pro-abortion. Since everyone who is pro-abortion is intellectually dishonest, it should surprise NO ONE that he is not honest in many respects. People who refuse to recognize that a candidate's position on abortion reveals all you need to know about his character, not just his "philosophy," continue to get burned.

[mass55th]

Bloomberg has been a Democrat all his life. He only ran on the Republican ticket because that was the only party left where he could get on the ballot.

[Nitro]

Much like the writer, for me this was much more of an anti-Green vote but since Rudy endorsed him I guess I let myself believe it wouldn't be all that bad, obviously that was a mistake!!

Although I still believe Green would have been even worse!!

[beckett]

Bloomberg is another example of an "incredibly shrinking politician." He is over his head. His business skills are not transferring well. He has zero charisma. And his political instincts stink to high heaven, the Columbus Day farce --- Bloomie takes one in the belly for a couple of actors --- being the latest example.

I predict that after a few more years of Bloomberg, NYers will be ready to run him out of town on a rail.

[jmaroneps37]

Bloomy is a liberal (B), that is he is not a rat, a Republican, a green ,he is the one and only member of his party the Bloombergs. If you are disappointed with what he's doing, I join you. If you ever think about the stupid idea of "I'd vote for a rat over a RINO" let me off.
For those of you around the country, who are judging NYC by the politics where you live, give it a rest. Jesse Helms doesn't live in Manhattan. We have to take the best we can get and; believe me Bloomy is 100 times better than the commie socialist mark green. If green would have won there would have been a 1000 moving truck parade taking businesses out of NYC. Green is a crazy foaming at the mouth rabid anti business lunatic.

[NativeNewYorker]

Bloomy is 100 times better than the commie socialist mark green

Amen. Far and away the lesser evil.