Weiner vs reality!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/27/anthony-weiner-stands-by-claim-that-west-bank-isn-t-occupied-by-israel.html
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm guessing the bike thing is probably a matter of balancing the wants of a large base of young lefty new yorkers with a small group of old, moneyed, donatin' new yorkers.
I think its more young lefty new Yorkers vs truck driving union outer borough left
― iatee, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
ie deblasio sees himself as a man of the people because he *does* drive
― iatee, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
that weiner israel shit is weiiiiird, did not know about that
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/nyc/nyc06272013.pdf/
50% of people 18-25 think bike lanes should be increased, 21% decreased11% and 34 for people 65+
50/20 citibike approval, also
― iatee, Friday, 28 June 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
but also on my point above - 67% approval for people making 100k, 44% for under 40k
― iatee, Friday, 28 June 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
that's such a 21st century class weirdness when you think about it -- bikes for the elite, cars for the proles
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
interesting that mandatory food waste recycling is much more popular among hispanic and black voters than white voters, wonder what accounts for that
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/in-email-to-jta-quinn-says-west-bank-disputed-territory/2013/07/12/
― Mordy , Friday, 12 July 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
lol "breaking"
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
controversial claim there
I mean, the article reads in "disputed" to mean something other than occupied. But I wouldn't really surmise that.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
O, may this rescue us from a Schwanz-Quinn runoff
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/weiner_cops_to_carlos_danger_sexts/
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm psyched for mayor quinn medicine woman
― Mordy , Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
surely weiner's sexual pathology is not [just] that he gets off on sending around photos of his penis, but that he is really turned on by the subsequent shame of getting caught
― Mordy , Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
I'm trying to resist playing armchair psychotherapist (a silly phrase, fwiw, since psychotherapists actually do work from armchairs), but there is definitely SOMETHING pathological about this beyond just blowing off steam, cheating, being horny etc.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Of course, someone was probably sitting on this, waiting for the right moment to use it. But that doesn't really make it look any better.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
it's all probably a valve for self-loathing that comes from saying "Gaza is not occupied" in public.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
you mean the west bank
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
hasn't he said both?
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
The West Bank is the one that's especially weird to claim it's not occupied. Israel removed its soldiers stationed in Gaza and forced out the few thousand Israeli settlers that lived there in 2005, so there's at least a plausible argument that it's no longer officially "occupied" (even though Israel controls its borders and imposes harsh conditions on its economy).
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
why is "the pantsuit" allowed to be used a shorthand for quinn? (nb: I dislike quinn intensely) that's not a good look for this thread right?
anyway, weiner has no chance now right? and is there even a remote possibility that de blasio could become viable as the non-quinn candidate? or is it too late for that?
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
and a la 2nd ave sagas, why the endless talk about ferries??http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/07/23/as-triboro-rx-looms-a-mayoral-race-on-ferries-emerges/
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
Weiner's campaign has hours left, if has a brain in his... well.
The Pantsuit was the nicest moniker I could come up with, that's the kind of pig I am. Deal.
One would presume CQ is not going to get the 40% needed to avoid a runoff, so whoever finishes second becomes the non-Quinn candidate. All deBlasio has to do is edge out the Crook and the Empty Suit.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Liu was campaigning outside of my subway stop yesterday morning. I helped throw away some flyers I guess. Don't understand what would make someone choose him of all people as a candidate-of-choice. Does he have some compelling platform I'm unaware of?
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
I like Liu on a good number of issues -- he has some of the "shareholder activism" interests of Spitzer, and he's at least partly on my side of things on education. The fundraising scandal may hurt him a bit. But honestly I'm not too happy with my choices right now and I'm not ruling him out.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/nyregion/among-new-york-women-bafflement-at-the-loyalty-shown-by-weiners-wife.html
― Mordy , Thursday, 25 July 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
maybe she's into it. maybe it's a part of their sex life.
― Mordy , Thursday, 25 July 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
Marist poll, post-Carlos
Quinn 25, Weiner 16, de Blasio 14, Thompson 14, Liu 7
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/25/quinn_pulls_ahead_of_weiner/
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
de Blasio on the rise...
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/jul/29/poll-weiner-slumps-de-blasio-rises/
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
accept no imitations
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
argh, this is the WORST idea. Quinn is the WORST.
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-offers-loans-for-pre-k-2013-8
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Mr. Weiner’s collapse, in the wake of his admission that he had continued to send sexually explicit images to women online for more than a year after he resigned from Congress over such behavior, appears to be significant: when asked to pick a candidate they would “definitely not vote for under any circumstances,” 51 percent named Mr. Weiner — up from 28 percent just three weeks ago. Ms. Quinn was named by 24 percent, and John C. Liu, the comptroller, was by 18 percent.
But Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, suggested that the numbers would most likely continue to change, especially because most of the candidates have just begun to air television commercials.
“Follow the bouncing ball, folks,” he said. “This lineup keeps changing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/nyregion/new-poll-suggests-that-de-blasio-is-now-first-among-voters.html
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Bill Thompson wants us all to drive, maybe
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/08/8532950/bill-thompson-unveils-car-focused-transportation-plan?top-featured-4
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 August 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/nyregion/de-blasio-gingerly-acknowledges-red-sox-allegiance.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
uh oh
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
not as bad as Quinn jumping ship from the mets to the yanks
― jbn, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
yep! no end to her perfidy
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
Can anyone give me a good reason not to vote for John Liu over these other clowns?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 August 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
he's a crook and de Blasio is the only one w/ a prayer vs Speaker Kramden
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 August 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
from last week's new yorker story on bloomberg's legacy:
"Through no fault of Bloomberg's, the city is in a dangerous fiscal situation, Giuliani told me. "The next mayor has to be a fiscal expert, the way I was an expert on crime."
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
So, Curt Schilling?
Don't know quite what to make of the NYT's piece yesterday on de Blasio's stint in 2000 as Hillary Rodham's senatorial campaign manager. At first it smelled like a hatchet job ("indecisive") from a pro-Quinn paper, but it wound up primarily showing him as a guy who can't be an abusive dick? Which is what 3 of our last 4 mayors have been.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/in-2000-a-clinton-war-room-didnt-fit-de-blasios-style.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
the New York media has been slow dragging coverage lately, because any time people see De Blasio they like his message and people REALLY hate Quinn. So there's basically no day-to-day coverage of the race, it's just surreal. Higher-ups around the city are panicking obviously and don't know what to do, so they're just not covering it, unless it's a negative article about De Blasio. Bloomberg's pit bull Howard Wolfson was all over the media yesterday basically warning people it will be the 70s again...should be interesting
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
morbs it is amazing to see you pulling for the lesser of two evils in a politics thread, esp one that's a clinton crony. he was against the single most progressive policy proposed in nyc in a generation (congestion pricing). a safe prediction: after four years of mr. 'a tale of two cities', income inequality will be worse.
but he is also the least likely to be re-elected, which seems like a good reason to vote for him and quinn is just so terrible. I was hoping lhota, who was actually fairly competent at the MTA, would attempt to fill the void here but just been a bumbling his way through this. liu is a good protest vote because nobody could interpret a vote for liu as anything but a protest vote. it is just astounding that one of these people will actually be mayor.
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
I'm not happy with the Hillaryism, but all the others suck worse. I voted for Thompson 4 years ago, fer Chrissake, my "purity" is greatly exaggerated.
income inequality will be worse.
yeah, but it will get worse more slowly, maybe. I just want the apocalyptic shit to hit after I die. (Good luck to the rest of you btw.)
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Is it even that clear that Liu is really a "crook"? The campaign finance allegations are serious, but is Liu's direct knowlege/involvement clear?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
even if the scandals didn't exist he was never going to get enough support to be a serious candidate
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Seriously thinking about throwing him my vote. I don't think I even really care much btw DeBlasio and Quinn.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
De Blasio up by 15 in latest Quinnipiac poll (which is a left-leaning poll yadayada)...he's 4 points away from avoiding a runoff! Quinn and Thompson have 21 and 20, respectively...this poll was done after the 2nd debate and in the midst of all CQ's useless endorsements.
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
that's kind of unbelievable
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
If there is a runoff, it's gonna be nassssty.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
real 1000-yard zombie stare to go with it
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
i love this picture
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/13/nyregion/13nycmayor-2/13nycmayor-2-popup.jpg
― Mordy , Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
to the mitzvah mobile!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Just saw Bill on ny1. He will not be seeking Weiner's endorsement.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 September 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
BREAKING
Thompson withdrawing today. Our elections are over when the Tisches say they are over.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 September 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
btw de Blasio, in his primary night speech, called Cynthia Nixon "one of the architects of this campaign"! Which is funny since Robert Altman gave CN her start in politics.
http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080902/Tanner-88-Nixon_l.jpg
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 September 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
de Blasio, in his primary night speech, called Cynthia Nixon "one of the architects of this campaign"!
I missed that line but in the shots of the primary night party crowd my wife recognized Cynthia Nixon's partner (wife? not sure) as being right in the front row of supporters behind the podium
― dmr, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Sandinista! (of course Bill & Hil were once McGoverniks)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopeful-now-de-blasio-was-once-a-young-leftist.html
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 September 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
so who else read the VV cover expose on de Blasio FIXING PARKING TICKETS for his CC constituents?
the horror
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO6waZDHBqA
http://politicker.com/2013/10/joe-lhota-releases-scariest-ad-yet/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
god these guys are awful
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
if u listen to em, sure.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
still it's quite possible I'll vote minor-party for mayor now, have to look who's on.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
def a good election for that
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
i only skimmed the Times today, what was awful about BDB?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
as a motorist he believes the 'jury's out' about pedestrian plazas
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
np, last thing i wanna do is sit down on West 39th Street.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
won't have to sit down in park slope either, bdb and chuck need those extra lanes
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
My office overlooks this "transition center" George Soros is building, will try to check out what can be done on Wednesday:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/billionaire-financier-soros-backs-mayoral-transition-project/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 November 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
I gen find the Working Families Party to be a meaningless dodge for liberals who think they're 'sending a message' to mediocre-and-worse Dem candidates, but can someone explain who those 3 judge candidates were running against the unified Dem-Rep field?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
morbs did you really not vote for BDB
lol at this pic btw
http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_rebeccaf/110513_bloombergbill.jpg
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
I was completely on the fence til the last minute, but yes I voted Green for mayor, w/ about 4000 others. (iatee?) BdB got my vote in the real election in Sept. (and I voted for Tish James and Ken Thompson both times, that's enough Dems)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
not a bad John Liu post-election interview, basically a rundown of city challenges:
http://gothamist.com/2013/10/23/john_liu_feature.php
― chinavision!, Thursday, 7 November 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/12/bill_bratton_de_blasio_nypd_commisioner.php
― Mordy , Friday, 6 December 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
actually seems promising...
― iatee, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
Dude has a soca song? Did anybody ever write a soca about Bloomy? Hmmm?
http://m.animalnewyork.com/2013/bill-de-blasios-soca-anthem-incredible/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 December 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-defies-national-trends-23-cut-traffic-deaths-3-years-article-1.2980888
pretty big accomplishment
― k3vin k., Friday, 24 February 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link
too bad about the pedestrians
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 February 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link
and the cyclists
14 -> 18 is not a big deal. 299 -> 230 is
― k3vin k., Friday, 24 February 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
p4reene w/ some tips, links, laments
http://splinternews.com/a-guide-to-new-york-citys-municipal-primary-elections-f-1803740414
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
went with Swern over Fliedner for Brooklyn DA
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link