A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23…
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23 in other parties and 117 who did not list a party. That breakdown is echoed by the overwhelmingly Democratic makeup of Assembly District 52, as well as that of Brooklyn, which voted 79 percent for Senator John Kerry in 2004.” The McCain supporters are old school Slopers, writes the Times: residents from long before the Manhattan exodus who say the block was full of Roman Catholics and firemen when they arrived. But donkeys and elephants alike seem to be getting along: old and new, Obama and McCain-lovers. As one Democratic neighbor said about his neighbor’s signs, “To me, that says the person’s possibly open to some dialogue.
An Outpost in the Blue Sea of Brooklyn [NY Times]
Photo by moralesdirect.
I’d love to know the back room politics and horse trading that’s going on to get this term limit vote to pass!!! Even Peter vallone is for it now!! What did Bloomie promise him???
I think Bloomberg, being the billionaire businessman that he is feels like he’s wading in sewage when it comes to dealing with these career politicians…slimy little Sheldon Silver at the top of the list.
“why should the voters of a previous generation determine who may run for office in later generations?”
Well, then, he can put the matter before the voters, not a bunch of other political hacks who would also like the removal of term limits.
well said fsrq
snarkslope – Who is “we”??
why should the voters of a previous generation determine who may run for office in later generations?
Perhaps you should send him a suitable pic – if Mr B is like me he wouldn’t know a hot chico from a hot dog. I’m blind as to what makes an attractive male over a run of the mill male. My wife swears I’m making it up, but I really can’t see it.
Snark…the polls show that despite people being against a third term, over 80% of them would vote for Bloomberg!!!!! This is some kind of nonsense!!!!
If he posted something with a pic of a hot chica he’d get another 200!!!! Just make sure there’s an equally hot chico in the background!!!!!
“Bloomberg… If you don’t want him to win a third term then don’t vote for him.”
We already did, by TWICE voting for term limits.
“in places like NYC, your sign simply leads any thinking right-leaning person to conclude you are a moronic sheep who likes to engage in empty gestures”….fsrq…no it’s just a sign that says who you support. Christ, what a line of crap that was.