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All Hail King Bloomberg
7:00 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City| Politics · Comments Off
24 Oct 2008
As a New Yorker, I would be remiss if I didn’t write about how freaking angry I am that the NYC Council voted 29 votes in favor of extending term limits, to 22 votes, clearing the way for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for a third term, and opting to not let the people of NYC who voted for term limits a few years back to vote to have the option of voting to change their mind.
Not surprisingly, the Mayor was thrilled.
Today, the majority of the City Council decided to give the people of New York a fuller choice in the November, 2009 election. I believe that was the right choice, and I want to thank Speaker Quinn for her leadership. Those of us who work on both sides of City Hall must now move forward with the important decisions that face us, particularly finding ways to soften the fallout from the economic downturn and balancing our budget as revenues decline. We have a lot of work to do together to get New York through these tough times.
I’m happy that my council person voted against the measure and while I don’t hate Bloomberg as much as I hate Giuliani, I am not down with playing on people’s fears as a control mechanism.
The rumors of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to run for a third term and attempt to change a term limit law in the process, are being analyzed by many mainstream media sources as a sign of the need and desire to have a familiar face guide the city through the current economic crisis.
After all, Bloomy is not just a politician, he’s an economic insider, a former Wall Street trader and the man behind the business information company that has his name. Pero what short term memory people have.
Remember the praise Giuliani got post 9-11-01? How well he handled the crisis? So we face a “new” threat and we need more of the same?
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Habla Español (Sort of)
11:07 am By Maegan La Mala · Magazines| New York City| Politics| language · Comments Off
24 Sep 2008
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking Spanish classes, with a Colombian tutor. Does this mean he speaks with a Colombian accent?
The men sat at opposite ends of a coffee table speckled with a half-dozen books — on the history of New York’s municipal lawyers, on the subway system’s rich architecture. Their legs stretched out, left foot resting on the right, they were mirror images of disparate worlds: the tutor, an immigrant from Colombia, with his student, the mayor of New York, face to face for 90 minutes in an elegant chamber at City Hall.
In an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, el alcalde says he wishes his Español was better
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My Spanish. I’ve been studying for seven years and I still speak como un novato.
In New York City, it should be a requirement to speak Spanish and I mean that in the best way.
Via / Mi Blog es tu Blog, NYT, Vanity Fair
Image Via / NYT
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