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Bloomberg’s money bought republican senate votes when he wanted them. His money bought the vote to extend term limits because would have been death wish for Quinn et al to go against him.
Someone without his $$$ would not have been able to do this.
It was outrageous although apparently legal.
Nobody is irreplaceable. Guiliani tried pulling that at end of his last term.
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Yeah Rob, TRUE New Yawker knows that when something is too good to be true, it aint man. Only tourists fall for some of this stuff
im very gullible. i once bought a bag of mushrooms from some random dude selling them. i boiled them in tea, waiting to trip. nothing happenening at all. crush more up and put them in tea, nothing. then i google them and they were f’ing shitake mushrooms from like a supermarket 🙁 i paid 60 bux for those! LOL never again. fool me once, twice, thrice, no more.
love to play chicken with those idiot pedestrians who actually think I’ll slam on my brakes if they chose to purposely walk into my path when it’s “DON’T WALK”. one time, one of those idiots (a girl) ran up to my car at the next light to scream at me that I could’ve mowed her down, etc. upon which I cursed her out that her blatant stupidity could’ve done major damage to my car, waste my time explaining to police how she got ran over,….
That may well be so, guys, and I’m realistic enough to agree with much of what you say, Benson and DIBS. Not enough people do vote, (see rob, above) and we get what/who we get. I think part of the problem is that the choices are so limited. I mean, who really wants to be saddled with the problems of the MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE? You’d almost have to be either a political hack with the support of the many factions of NYC’s back rooms, or a megalomaniac control freak. If you think about it, we either get one or the other, and occasionally both at once.
I don’t know about hijacking democracy, its Bloomberg who was elected Mayor of the city but its Silver who decides what projects will or won’t fly for this city (West Side Stadium, congestion pricing etc etc). The idea that Bloomberg is somehow making a power grab when most of the power was grabbed long ago by backroom dealers in an undemocratic system is just hot air.
Bloomberg’s money bought republican senate votes when he wanted them. His money bought the vote to extend term limits because would have been death wish for Quinn et al to go against him.
Someone without his $$$ would not have been able to do this.
It was outrageous although apparently legal.
Nobody is irreplaceable. Guiliani tried pulling that at end of his last term.
I’ve paid to be to have all sorts of things done to me. Rather fun actually.
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Yeah Rob, TRUE New Yawker knows that when something is too good to be true, it aint man. Only tourists fall for some of this stuff
im very gullible. i once bought a bag of mushrooms from some random dude selling them. i boiled them in tea, waiting to trip. nothing happenening at all. crush more up and put them in tea, nothing. then i google them and they were f’ing shitake mushrooms from like a supermarket 🙁 i paid 60 bux for those! LOL never again. fool me once, twice, thrice, no more.
*rob*
love to play chicken with those idiot pedestrians who actually think I’ll slam on my brakes if they chose to purposely walk into my path when it’s “DON’T WALK”. one time, one of those idiots (a girl) ran up to my car at the next light to scream at me that I could’ve mowed her down, etc. upon which I cursed her out that her blatant stupidity could’ve done major damage to my car, waste my time explaining to police how she got ran over,….
– I pay far more for humiliation
I get mine for free right here on the OT.
“$75/hr to humiliate men”
I pay far more for humiliation
That may well be so, guys, and I’m realistic enough to agree with much of what you say, Benson and DIBS. Not enough people do vote, (see rob, above) and we get what/who we get. I think part of the problem is that the choices are so limited. I mean, who really wants to be saddled with the problems of the MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE? You’d almost have to be either a political hack with the support of the many factions of NYC’s back rooms, or a megalomaniac control freak. If you think about it, we either get one or the other, and occasionally both at once.
I don’t know about hijacking democracy, its Bloomberg who was elected Mayor of the city but its Silver who decides what projects will or won’t fly for this city (West Side Stadium, congestion pricing etc etc). The idea that Bloomberg is somehow making a power grab when most of the power was grabbed long ago by backroom dealers in an undemocratic system is just hot air.
sorry, I can’t help it. I keep finding them.
$75/hr to humiliate men.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tlg/1421318567.html
Cha-Ching!!!!
I start my training next week.