43 days ago by Jewish Week

... done as much good for the city, or more, by donating it. “Forty thousand people in homeless shelter s!” shouts Alex Pareene in a breathless non-endorsement of Bloomberg on Gawker.com. ” Bloomberg could personally buy every single one of those people an apartment in a vacant Williamsburg luxury ...

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44 days ago by Marisa

... and well, spent $84 million less on courting voters. He only lost by a measly 5 points! That’s a cost of around $18 million per point. Here is something from Gawker that is amazing and I couldn’t have captured my feelings on this election any better. The second is from the New York Times, a good ...

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44 days ago by cat

... predicted Bloomberg ahead by double digits… The pollsters might have some explaining to do.” 8. Gawker’s pre-election “endorsement” “Don’t Vote for Bloomberg” encapsulates the issues with our Mayor (which most of the mainstream press ignore) perfectly. 9. ( Added!) Pretty amazing recounting of ...

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44 days ago by Brief Wit

... Jewish man. (It’s harder than it sounds.) So, were the polls inaccurate, or did a last minute protest vote pick up support? Gawker’s scathing anti-endorsement couldn’t have helped Bloomberg. If Thompson was an inspiring candidate what might have happened? I guess this outcome shows that there ...

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44 days ago by Brief Wit

... Jewish man. (It’s harder than it sounds.) So, were the polls inaccurate, or did a last minute protest vote pick up support? Gawker’s scathing anti-endorsement couldn’t have helped Bloomberg. If Thompson was an inspiring candidate what might have happened? I guess this outcome shows that there ...

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45 days ago by elizabeth

... website of the Rent Is To Damn High party candidate, Jimmy McMillan.] For my fellow New Yorkers, I can only repeat Gawker (!?)– Don’t Vote for Bloomberg. Read the whole anti-endorsement, but here are some highlights: For all the talk of Bloomberg the power-player who at least gets things ...

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45 days ago by jackturner

... amounts of campaign cash — spending in just three hours what the average New Yorker makes in a year. Finally, a surprisingly fierce anti-Bloomberg endorsment from Gawker: His record on housing, like his record on nearly everything having to do with the outer boroughs and poverty and human beings ...

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45 days ago by Geoffrey M. Golia

... of Michael Bloomberg which is pretty great, so I'm going to cut & paste a few of my favorite parts & arguments from it. ( You can see the whole original here.) I tend to not always agree with him, & sometimes I wonder how sophisticated his grasp of policy is, but this is a fine - albeit ...

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45 days ago by Kenneth Hsu

... Naturally, New Yorkers of all backgrounds are crying foul over the thought of the city’s wealthiest man essentially buying his power. Gawker’s anti-endorsement echoes typical resentment: “[Bloomberg] has been unable to win any political battle with anyone he couldn’t literally buy off” (Also: ...

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46 days ago by walter faure

... of us will be one great countable “we” who were not bought and paid for. Call us the adults. _________________ * This one isn’t intended as an endorsement, though it might as well be, first misidentifying Mr. Bloomberg as an “Independent,” not a Republican, and then calling him “an incredibly ...

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