Posted on 09/20/2013 6:18:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If New York City were a stock, today traders would be screaming, “Sell! Sell! Sell!” Gotham is about to take a lurch to the left that makes the municipal government of Washington, D.C. look centrist.
New York’s mayoral contest effectively ended when the first poll of the general election showed unapologetic business-bashing left-wing Democrat Bill de Blasio destroying Republican moderate Joseph Lhota by nearly a three to one margin, 65 percent to 22. At this point, not even a sexting scandal could cost de Blasio the mayoralty, despite his absurdly thin resume: His biggest job to date, the ceremonial post of New York City Public Advocate, handles a budget of $2.3 million. That’s about 1/30,000th of the budget of the city of which he is about to be elected mayor.
Conservative donors are likely to sit this race out; Lhota faces an electorate composed of six Democrats for every Republican and which gave 81 percent of its votes to President Obama. Lhota is much more aligned with the pro-business, center-right leadership of the last 20 years under Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent Mike Bloomberg.
The churn of New York City’s population, with its heavy influx of youngsters and immigrants, means little institutional memory of what the city was like under its last liberal Democrat, David Dinkins, who was (just barely) edged out of office in 1993 after the city’s annual murder total surpassed 2,000 under his stewardship and subsided to a level barely under that.
Now, with murders down to about 300 a year, New Yorkers have evidently decided that the crime wave is over and it’s time to get lax about mayhem and disorder.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
No problem. No stop-and-frisk = more murders.
After enough innocent blood is spilled - in 10 years or so, people will wake up and vote conservative. Then, when crime drops gain, they’ll go back to the democrats.
Nasty little cycle.
Hope those libtards stay in NY and do not migrate to where we are doing WORK like Texas. We already have too many libs from California moving here since they screwed up their own state so bad they are over taxed and have no work.
The Giuliani legacy will be destroyed under de Blasio. Stop and frisk and other aggressive police tactics made the city safe and the economic recovery possible. Under this Obama follower there will be a resurgence of crime, many areas of the city will again become no go zones and the economy will suffer. However if New Yorkers vote for this man in the numbers projected, they will deserve no sympathy.
Now, with murders down to about 300 a year, New Yorkers have evidently decided that the crime wave is over and it’s time to get lax about mayhem and disorder.
They'll be sorry they didn't vote for Weiner, the man with the plan.
New York and all NeoEuropa north and east are already no travel zones for me
I want to stay clean
Not all that much of a cycle if New York has never had a conservative mayor.
My feelings exactly. When asked, I send my regrets, cards on special occasions, and e-mails with pictures mowing the grass in January, etc. but to travel there ..... never happen.
Glad I left working in that craphole, 25yrs ago.
The end.
Sheila Jackson Lee, Mr. Glass House.
“However if New Yorkers vote for this man in the numbers projected, they will deserve no sympathy.”
I don’t think they will want sympathy, quite frankly. Most liberals want their city to have slums, crime,...and a few burning buildings now and then to make things interesting.
I don't reside there, nor will I be visiting there any time soon, so I could care less.
I have the same feelings. Kind of sad, when I moved to Colorado almost 20 years ago, is was a good place but because of the californians and folks from the East Coast, it has gone to hell as well. I looked at foreign countries but deends where ? They have different problems as well.
> I don’t reside there, nor will I be visiting there any time soon, so I could care less.
Hope those libtards stay in NY and do not migrate to where we are doing WORK like Texas.
She is exactly the problem we have in Texas. Libtard idiots. Thank you for proving my point exactly.
Don't count your chickens before they've hatched.
She's yours. All yours, Texan.
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