NYC'13: Congrats to Mayor de Blasio

[nolesfan2011]

In huge news, Jimmy McMillan will be running as the Rent Is Too Damn High candidate.

I hereby endorse Jimmy McMillan. He's the most serious candidate of the bunch

I agree.

Quinn is seriously terrible though, she's an authoritarian liberal of the worst kind, and probably even worse than Bloomberg.  Hates unions, supports privatized education, racial profiling, civil liberties violations, soda bans, raising the smoking age (quite unconstitutional and absurdly controlling).

The G&L victory fund should really be ashamed of backing her so strongly, would think even as an LGBT political action group they would have enough of a head on their shoulders to realize a bad candidate when they see one, regardless of orientation.

The LGBT community itself seems to realize Quinn isn't that great, and her voters are probably going to be Republican leaning anyway.

Same with the Emily's list type of groups.. she's female but her policies are plain wrong.

[nolesfan2011]

Andrew Cuomo and Charlie Rangel have some not-so-nice words for Weiner.

Leave it to Rangel to talk about people embroiled in scandal staying in politics.

Cuomo is really a Republican pretending to be a Dem.  Sure Weiner has issues, but to openly bash a member of his own party like this over a non policy issue is just kind of ridiculous.

I guess he wanted to impeach Bill Clinton too and Ted Kennedy shouldn't have been a Senator?

In other news, the CWA and SEIU are backing De Blasio http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/nyregion/citys-largest-union-endorsing-de-blasio-for-mayor.html  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/communication-workers-america-endorses-bill-de-blasio-article-1.1351205?localLinksEnabled=false?pmSlide=0 as is the " Uptown Obama Democratic Club" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/deblasio-upper-manhattan-nod-article-1.1351537

I really hope he pulls off an upset, especially after Weiner flubbed the website skyline thing

[nolesfan2011]

I don't support Quinn's candidacy for a whole mess of reasons; the deal with Bloomberg is just the most salient. Since we've fleshed out my views on Weiner at this point, why do you like Quinn?

She's progressive, she knows how to get things done, and she's got plenty of accomplishments as Council Speaker. There are some reasons why you might support someone else, and as a non resident of NYC I can't speak to those. But mostly I just think a lot of the sh**t she gets is exaggerated. And I really don't like Weiner and what he represents in the party.

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He sometimes knows how to put on a good show, but he's also his own worst enemy.

I think the fact she is racist, corrupt and a bully is not talked about enough, regardless of the fact she thumbed her nose at the actual voters on the term limits thing. 

[nolesfan2011]

Puff piece on De Blasio here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/nyregion/in-mayoral-race-de-blasios-focus-is-beyond-manhattan.html?pagewanted=1&ref=nyregion&_r=0

[nolesfan2011]

My predictions

Comptroller: Spitzer 52% Stringer 48%

Den mayoral: De Blasio 39% Thompson 24% Quinn 22% Weiner 7% Liu 6% Others 2%

GOP mayoral: Lhota 55% Catsimatidis 33% McDonald 10%

De Blasio has had a great late surge but I think he comes up just short, minority boost turnout will help Thompson get past Quinn. Liu and Weiner may actually flip spots, hard to tell.

Lhota should cruise, and I think Spitzer gets name recognition vote just enough to prevail.