Where Rudy Giuliani failed, Mike Bloomberg has succeeded in getting term limits removed so that he can run for another four years as NYC's mayor. He has, at best, token opposition but he is pouring millions of his own money into the campaign just, I suppose, to remove all doubt of a landslide win. Overall, I think he deserves to win, if not the landslide.
Still, the campaign does make for its amusing moments as in the relentless TV and mailers that pound away at New Yorkers's discontent with their transit service. In our mailbox the other day I found a slick four page ad that on its cover showed a long line of citizens standing at a bus stop, the line at right angles to the curb, something you never see in the City, but that's another story. The bus is pulling up (or, more likely, about to whiz by with one of those "Out of Service" signs on front where its route number should be) and into a large font red headline that says, "Sick of Your Lousy Commute?" And at the bottom of the page, in equally large blue, "Support Mike Bloomberg's MTA Reform Plan," as if Mike Bloomberg was the insurgent candidate running against the old Tammany Hall gang instead of the man who has been, uh, mayor of the city and ultimately responsible for MTA performance the last eight years. Ah, politics, such good fun.
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THem boys in Bayside are the most dangerous and backwards of all. The city should toughen inspections for medical, psychiatric and vehicle reasons to cut down the number of congestion. This way, we will also get the voters against congestion pricing, who live in Bayside and Staten Island, to move away. Free health care means psychiatric care for all those angry talk radio white males!
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