The Quest to Stop the Pantsuit: NYC mayoral election 2013

wow, man

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/bloomberg-says-de-blasio-has-run-a-racist-campaign.html?_r=0

"I mean he’s making an appeal using his family to gain support"

ZOMG CAN U EVEN IMAGINE??? HIS FAMILY. FAMILY!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-de-blasio-attack-bloomberg-forgets-playing-up-jewish-heri

Can we plz shoot Bloombito and "NY Didn't Really Feel the Recession" Catz into space together?

I'm leaning Stringer, Thompson (Bklyn DA) and maybe Letitia James (publ advoc) in the other races? Anyone?

wow, piece-of-shit Al D'Amato was actually campaigning with Bill Thompson. What a stench.

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/09/shame-bill-deblasio-promises-satmar-that-in-exchange-for-votes-he-will-repeal-informed-consent-metzitzah-b-peh-123.html

That Bloomberg quote is just unbelievable. Makes me wish he was running just so I could vote against him.

via Doug Henwood, an audit Liu performed of the Economic Development Corporation (which apparently gives out a lot of tax breaks for not much result):
http://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/liu-edc-subsidizes-empty-job-promises/

re BdB's Hillary ties, I think P4reene has it right: "He worked for the Clintons, but he wasn’t enough of a raging prick to become part of the Clinton inner circle."

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/de_blasio_i_guess_the_pareene_endorsements/

I thought for 3 seconds about voting for the comedian Randy Credico for mayor.

So who exactly appointed Erc Adams as the new Brooklyn beep by acclamation? Thank God it's a meaningless office, eh.

I don't think deblahsio is gonna hit 40

that quinn might not even be in the runoff is pretty astounding

anything that hastens the end of identity politics re corporate shills is fine with me

i'm calling no runoff. and that putz stringer is going to win...cannot stand him

I'd vote for stringer over any of the mayoral candidates if he hadn't dropped

and I don't think he'll win

I feel we haven't seen the end of Spitzer's "flaws" (like strengthening john laws as guv, you fink) so i went for Stringer.

same here

Enough with the Markowitz robocalls for Hynes! Goodbye to you, big mouth.

lol landlines

well i like living apart from my phone most of the day, I'm a relic

NYT exit polls: Bill de Blasio 43, Thompson 23, and Quinn 18

take that, 'yankee fan'

so BdB is at 39.6%, with 87% in? This could take days.

Joe Hynes, Vito Lopez buh-bye

Stringer beats Spitzer

de Blasio up to 39.9%. It looks like UWS, lot of the Bronx yet to come.

Roffle

http://gawker.com/anthony-weiners-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-1290370789

https://twitter.com/LindseyChrist/status/377634961227911168/photo/1

What a shitty person Leathers is, tbf.

It has been so weird to work on this city council campaign this last week and hear things from the inside. (Kinda been in the enemy camp but couldn't say anything until now.) Charter schools, yo. They are serious.

De Blasio's criticism of charter schools is one of the things that won me over. How serious he is about it remains to be seen, but most of the others are openly pro-charter.

I had a conversation with a pro-Quinn friend about the race, and she said that a lot of the things DeBlasio is "progressive" on are things he has reversed his position on, but I figured I'd still take the guy who flip-flopped to the progressive side over people who aren't progressive at all.

All the strategists/advisors that were working w my candidate (a whole separate story) spent last night being cranky about BDB's success.

I was secretly cheering, also I just loved watching them being stymied.

oh yeah, Hynes has the GOP line in November, so I guess Markowitz robocalls on his behalf are less likely then. Maybe the Hasidim will turn out to reelect him anyway.

de Blasio, such a LEFTY, w/ the big donations from Ratner and the wife who worked for Citigroup.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, tho. Oh, Students First takes a break from complaining about UFT for long enough to complain about BDB and repeat those "racist campaign" bullet points? Consider my interest piqued.

If there's a runoff I just hope Bill T hits the trail with Senator Fonzie Tomato every day.

Anyone have any thoughts on Squadron vs. Tish James? I met Squadron and he seemed like a really nice guy, but I don't know much about either.

I got a mailer from Squadron w/ Chuck Schumer's mug all over it, so I immediately dismissed him.

The only reason I'm not paranoid about the rich buying Lhota the mayoralty is BdB is not the kind of tin-eared goofball Mark Green was 12 years ago. NYT front page today quotes a banker: "I'm terrified."

I have thoughts about the Foy/Cornegy race but they are...not fully formed. Cornegy's another charter person btw.

I really keep having paranoid delusions that the fix is in and that, in a runoff, Thompson will climb steadily in the polls a la Stringer and overtake BdB right at the end

Anyone have any thoughts on Squadron vs. Tish James? I met Squadron and he seemed like a really nice guy, but I don't know much about either.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:12 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

James' work against Atlantic Yards seems to me exactly what a public advocate shuold do, if they do anything.
i also liked that she represented the broken angel house

I really keep having paranoid delusions that the fix is in and that, in a runoff, Thompson will climb steadily in the polls a la Stringer and overtake BdB right at the end

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't worry, that would only happen if DeBlasio were a real progressive

Brazen Voting Fraud Alleged Among Ultra-Orthodox In Williamsburg

The source, who declined to be named for fear of retribution, told us the fraud operation is run out of an ultra-Orthodox wedding hall at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg. Volunteers are allegedly given free food and then "driven to four or five places" to vote under false names. "They have copies of the voter rolls, I don't know how they get them, but they get the names and the signatures," the source alleged.

Approached by a reporter this afternoon, a group of men inside the wedding hall denied any involvement with a voting fraud operation....

A spokesman for the Brooklyn DA's office confirmed that they haven't received any complaints of voter fraud referred from the BOE yet, and pointed out that the polls hadn't closed when we called. Long-serving Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes has faced an unusually stiff challenge for reelection this year, in part due to criticism that he's failed to aggressively prosecute sex-offenders in the ultra-Orthodox community.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/11/voter_fraud_attempts.php

ha ha, good one, hurting--so true. sad, but true. still, i'll take bdb over thompson or quinn any day

Being a "real" progressive is almost irrelevant -- our lords and masters can't tolerate even a rhetorical challenge to their rule, which is why OWS had to be smashed.

from the NYT blog:

Even as Mr. Thompson was expressing confidence in public, some of his campaign’s closet advisers seemed to be moving away from his candidacy.

Merryl H. Tisch, the chairwoman of Mr. Thompson’s campaign, said Mr. de Blasio’s broad support suggested a “clear victory.”

“I don’t think there’s much appetite within the Democratic Party to have a fight here,” Dr. Tisch, chancellor of the State Board of Regents, said in a telephone interview. She declined to say whether she had urged Mr. Thompson to concede, but said he was spending the day reaching out to donors and party leaders. “I’m sure he will make a good decision,” she said.

*Tisch elbow*

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT2fggVCEAAECFg.jpg

De Blasio's criticism of charter schools is one of the things that won me over. How serious he is about it remains to be seen, but most of the others are openly pro-charter.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:45 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get the feeling he's not terribly serious about anything. he seems like a poseur, honestly. liu seemed like a guy who might get a few things done, but he didn't have a chance and I don't think it's clear how close to the campaign-finance fraud he was.

on the other hand, if BdB's making those corporate "school reform" dolts mad, he cannot be all bad. he'll probably cozy up to them in due time, though.

that weiner image is oddly poignant

("that's what she said!" amirite?)