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| DATE | 2017-09-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] NY Times fake News on the Mayor
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Bill de Blasio, the Best Democratic Choice for Mayor
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD SEPT. 5, 2017
When Bill de Blasio took office in 2014 as the most left-wing mayor in
New York’s modern history, skeptics forecast disaster. In the
post-Giuliani and post-Bloomberg era, they predicted, the city would
roll back to the chaotic 1970s, when crime rates soared, garbage piled
high in the streets, corporations fled to leafier environs and municipal
bankruptcy loomed.
None of those dire warnings became reality. New York remains, on the
whole, well run. Crime has continued its remarkable decline. Garbage is
collected as efficiently as ever. The local economy is humming, and
municipal finances are sound, with steady budget surpluses. Most unions
representing city workers are content.
The mayor swiftly made good on his signature campaign pledge of
universal prekindergarten classes in public schools. He is on a path to
fulfilling a commitment to build or preserve 200,000 apartments over 10
years. He lowered speed limits on city streets to reduce traffic deaths
(though the decline has not been as impressive as was hoped), and he
continued laudable public-health policies begun by his immediate
predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. Simmering racial animosities have stayed
in check, when they might well have boiled over after the deaths of
several black men at the hands of police officers.
So we firmly endorse Mr. de Blasio in this primary as he seeks a second,
and final, term and urge Democratic voters to support him next Tuesday
over four lesser-known opponents. His able stewardship of the country’s
largest and most cantankerous city deserves to be rewarded.
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In the last week I was stuck for 2 hours on the subway between Grand
Street, and the Manhattan Bridge, and had a homeless women sit down
right next to me on 125th street and proceeded to yell on top of her
longs how they stuff her with food like a pig (she is a homeless russian
women) and saw a slashing in Halem on the subway and ...
We saw a person sawed in half for sitting on a platform with legs
hanging over the edge, and someone hit by a train walking between
Prospect park and church... AND then there is this
http://www.brooklyn-living.com/images/shanty_town_on_herald.png
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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