FU Bloomberg!!!

isn't it enough that his TV commercials are already bombarding the airwaves and my mailbox is filled with fliers to re-elect the oh so great mayor Bloomberg? But, now, I have to get calls from campaign people of his? i received 2 just today!

So, be on the lookout for phone calls from 917-000-0000, cute huh?

Only poor people should be politicians.

Oh no!!

My mailbox has been bombarded, but no phone calls yet. Thanks for the heads up.

Is anyone going to challenge this guy?

Looks like Thomspon will run

Why do people hate him so much? I think he's a good, solid mayor - all of Rudy's reforms without the race-baiting. I don't agree with what he did with regards to term limits but I don't hate him because he has money (that's ridiculous).

danielle123 wrote: Why do people hate him so much? I think he's a good, solid mayor - all of Rudy's reforms without the race-baiting. I don't agree with what he did with regards to term limits but I don't hate him because he has money (that's ridiculous).

i can tell you only my thoughts: the man governs a city where he essentially has never lived as a normal citizen. he's a gazillionaire and pretends to take the subway for like two stops.

from what i've gleaned of his whole ethos, he has absolutely no idea what it's like to live here and travel around here on a normal salary in the real world.

personally, i'd like to give him a disguise, give him a cast on his leg and the equivalent of a week's pay and see if he can find his way around the city and eat without incident

Thanks for your thoughts, BP. However, Rudy never took the subway. Did you hate Rudy for that? (If he pretends to take it and never does, that's a little childish on his part.) And, yes, he has money - a lot of it. That just makes me glad that he is not vulnerable to lobbyists.

Again, I don't think people should be hated because they've been successful. I think a successful businessman actually knows how to run a large behometh such as NYC.

danielle, the subway anecdote isn't really about the subway.

there's another thread on this board about cars vs. public transportation, and i'm avoiding jumping on over there.

the fact remains that our public transportation system is designed for the healthy, young, and able bodied. to say that you're "one of us" and you understand what it's like to live here by faking a few subway stops everyday is condescending at best. i really believe this transit issue is an example of completely out of touch bloomburg is.

remember the day a few winters ago when he didn't cancel ASS parking because he thought it was snow that could brush away? he ended up rescinding all the tickets that day. sadly, i did not know this when i went to dig out my car, a mere few weeks after spending a week in the hospital. i could barely walk, nearly passed out shoveling that "tiny bit", and ultimately two guys from the parks department pulled out shovels to help me. how many new yorkers got hurt that day, i'm sure i wasn't the only one.

this reminds me of when george bush sr. didn't know a: what supermarket scanners were, and b: how much bread cost. at least he didn't pretend to be "one of us"... how can you govern what you don't know?

and btw, i don't hate him because he's successful.

brooklynpotter wrote: and btw, i don't hate him because he's successful.

And popular

brooklynpotter wrote: and btw, i don't hate him because he's successful.

And popular

I don't like that he went against the will of the people to extend term limits just this once and just for him. I think that is just plain arogant to think he is the only one.

I don't like that he plays fair with campaign financing. It is not freedom of speech when you talk so long and loud that no other candidate can get a work in.

I don't like what he has done with education, now run by what seems to be lawyers and MBAs. All these charter school, just an end run around privatization and spending something like $137 million on accountability that has not affected learning. And he doesn't give communities enough input.

and the creation or saving 400K jobs. The times did an analysis of this and couldn't see how it was possible the best any mayor has done during a time of expansion was 275 thousand

Spending money on new stadiums when all the literature and analysis on these sort of tings in other cities show that there isn't as much economic value as is claimed

I don't think he has a clue as to what life is like for me

I don't like that he went against the will of the people to extend term limits just this once and just for him. I think that is just plain arogant to think he is the only one.

I don't like that he plays fair with campaign financing. It is not freedom of speech when you talk so long and loud that no other candidate can get a work in.

I don't like what he has done with education, now run by what seems to be lawyers and MBAs. All these charter school, just an end run around privatization and spending something like $137 million on accountability that has not affected learning. And he doesn't give communities enough input.

and the creation or saving 400K jobs. The times did an analysis of this and couldn't see how it was possible the best any mayor has done during a time of expansion was 275 thousand

Spending money on new stadiums when all the literature and analysis on these sort of tings in other cities show that there isn't as much economic value as is claimed

I don't think he has a clue as to what life is like for me

He's going to bankrupt the City and chase small business away. His priority seems to be giving big corps huge tax breaks and incentives while having small businesses pony up the difference. City services such as NYPD and NYFD are both suffering as a result.

Idlewild wrote: He's going to bankrupt the City and chase small business away. His priority seems to be giving big corps huge tax breaks and incentives while having small businesses pony up the difference. City services such as NYPD and NYFD are both suffering as a result.

this!

doldrums wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]and btw, i don't hate him because he's successful.

And popular

i don't dislike him for this reason, either

To be fair here, the OP said nothing of Bloomberg's politics, only that she hates being phone solicited for his campaign. I have to agree with her. But I hate him, too.

i don't love the mailings.

wasting. paper.

For serious. Our household (three people) have now recieved a total of 7 Bloomberg mailings over the past week, four of which were exactly the same, all of them touting his 5 Boro Recovery Plan or whatever. Blech. From what I've seen his plan basically consists of higher taxes and less individual freedom. No thanks.

And don't get me started on his faux populism and the term limits thing. There's no way I'm voting for him, but unfortunately there doesn't really seem to be a viable alternative.

Bloomberg rocks. But I'd appreciate a few less mailings myself.

is there even anyone running against him?

i don't like him, but I kind of don't hate him either.

The mailings and commercials are obnoxious.

^^ Just wait until you start getting the phone calls!

is someone going to run against him? Please?

BrooklynJack wrote: I don't like that he went against the will of the people to extend term limits just this once and just for him. I think that is just plain arogant to think he is the only one.

I don't like that he plays fair with campaign financing. It is not freedom of speech when you talk so long and loud that no other candidate can get a work in.

I don't like what he has done with education, now run by what seems to be lawyers and MBAs. All these charter school, just an end run around privatization and spending something like $137 million on accountability that has not affected learning. And he doesn't give communities enough input.

and the creation or saving 400K jobs. The times did an analysis of this and couldn't see how it was possible the best any mayor has done during a time of expansion was 275 thousand

Spending money on new stadiums when all the literature and analysis on these sort of tings in other cities show that there isn't as much economic value as is claimed

I don't think he has a clue as to what life is like for me

I'll give him education any day over Unions. Charter schools are successful for a reason, if not they close em down. Look how much each school kid in NYC gets and they still can't get more than a 57% HS graduation rate ( for 2007). Money is not the answer. I hate Bloomberg but would much rather have mayoral control of the school system.

Rudy Giuliani was the best thing to happen to this city and I hope he runs for Governor. Paterson is a waste.

As long as he promises more banks I will vote for him.

LongTimeSloper wrote: ^^ Just wait until you start getting the phone calls!

is someone going to run against him? Please?

Comptroller Bill Thompson and probably Anthony Wiener. Speaker Chris Quinn is in a bit of a quandry, but that was her announced intention last year...
But who can run against all that $$$?
Rev Billy! (the Green Party candidate, making a point with political theater)

If Thompson and Wiener are the only other people running, it pretty much guarantees that I will (gladly) be voting for Bloomberg.

Ha, there hasn't been a peep over in my neighborhood yet. Some woman wanted to put up a huge Bloomberg sign in the window of the store, I was probably not as polite as I normally am when I told her no.

Ha, there hasn't been a peep over in my neighborhood yet. Some woman wanted to put up a huge Bloomberg sign in the window of the store, I was probably not as polite as I normally am when I told her no.

brooklynpotter wrote: i don't love the mailings.

wasting. paper.

Right, so much for the environmental mayor

brooklynpotter wrote: i don't love the mailings.

wasting. paper.

Right, so much for the environmental mayor

It is time for Bloomberg to return to private life.