De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor (Victory for Squeegeemen)

New York Times ^ | November 5, 2013 | By MICHAEL BARBARO and DAVID W. CHEN

[Brad from Tennessee]

Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure office into the fiery voice of New York’s disillusionment with a new gilded age, was elected the city’s 109th mayor on Tuesday.

His landslide victory, stretching from the working-class precincts of central Brooklyn to the suburban streets of southeast Queens, amounted to a forceful rejection of the hard-nosed, business-minded style of governance that reigned at City Hall for the past two decades and a sharp leftward turn for the nation’s largest metropolis.

Mr. de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, defeated Joseph J. Lhota, a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

It was the most sweeping victory in a mayor’s race since 1985, when Edward I. Koch won by 68 points, and it gave Mr. de Blasio what he said was an unmistakable mandate to pursue his liberal agenda.

“My fellow New Yorkers, today, you spoke out loudly and clearly for a new direction for our city,” Mr. de Blasio, a 52-year-old Democrat, said at a raucous party in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at which his teenage children danced onstage and the candidate greeted the crowd in English, Spanish and even a few words of Italian.

“Make no mistake: The people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and tonight we set forth on it, together.”

[Brad from Tennessee]

De Blasio will make the streets safe again for human vermin.

[imardmd1]

From the article:

The people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and tonight we set forth on it, together.

Uh-oh.

[Olog-hai]

Looking backward to these days again, thanks to Warner Wilhelm.

[Army Air Corps]

Let the looting begin!

[laplata]

I wonder if his wife will go back to being a lesbian. What a freakish family. Yep, they’re real Progressives.

[FreedomGuru]

NYC declared a “brain free zone”.

8 oz sodas not far behind.

[Darksheare]

New York city, the new Detroit of our times thanks to bloomberg and now little screaming commie de blasio.

[ToastedHead]

“amounted to a forceful rejection of the hard-nosed, business-minded style of governance”

Sounds about right for the economic capital of a bankrupt planet.

[Argus]

Fun City is back, baby!

[tcrlaf]

How long will it take the Adult Bookstores and Porn Theaters to take over Times Square again?

[RginTN]

Advice to tax wary Liberal NYC residents...don’t move to TN. Its hot. Very Hot. We get tornados. We get ice storms. We are on the New Madrid earthquake fault and could be hit with magnitude 9+ earthquake soon.

Also alot of citizens carry guns. So scary!

[Brad from Tennessee]

The only worse thing than a Yankee is a Yankee pulling a U-Haul.

[The Cajun]

New York Detroit.
Shouldn't take long at all.

[Paul R.]

a sharp leftward turn for the nation’s largest metropolis.

NYC was already on a "sharp leftward turn". This is more like:

[caww]

<...”New York city, the new Detroit of our times”...>

Agree.....that’s one nasty city, especially when you compare it with the major cities worldwide. It’s lost it’s appeal because it’s so outdated....and dirty.

[Darksheare]

Going to get worse too.
Lovecraft called it a dead city back in the twenties.
He’d have nightmares of epic proportions over it now.

[caww]

Yes, I think you're right..it will get worse now....the fog of decay will eventually engulf it....and this Progressive Mayor will move it right along...while he floods the democrats purses with any wealth that is left there to get...

[Darksheare]

Taxes go up, crime goes up, mayor will blame...everyone but himself.
It’s going to get “educational”, much like the dinkins years.

[Praxeologue]

. . . At a small shop I bought a dime composition book; & having a pencil & pencil sharpener (in a case, which SH gave me) in my pocket, proceeded to select a site for literary creation. Scott-Park . . . was the place I chose; & there, pleasantly intoxicated by the wealth of delicate un-metropolitan greenery & the yellow & white Colonialism of the gambrel-roofed Scott house, I settled myself for work. Ideas welled up unbidden, as never before for years, & the sunny actual scene soon blended into the purple & red of a hellish midnight tale--a tale of cryptical horrors among tangles of antediluvian alleys in Greenwich Village--wherein I wrote not a little poetick description, & the abiding terror of him who comes to New York as to a faery flower of stone & marble, yet finds only a verminous corpse--a dead city of squinting alienage with nothing in common either with its own past or with the background of America in general.

Lovecraft, Newy York, August, 1925

[Nextrush]

Comrade Bill is now in charge.....