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New York City Wakes Up to Four More Years of Bloomberg
12:17 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Politics · 1 Comment
4 Nov 2009It was a close one, 51% to 46%— a difference of less than 51,000 votes. For a moment I thought that New York City would have a new mayor but instead it looks like NYC’s billionaire mayor has won a historic and controversial third term. Certainly the fact that he reportedly spent $100 million, $15,000 an hour to Thompson’s $7 million over all, had nothing to do with it.
I was thinking about what bothered me so much about Bloomberg’s third term. Wasn’t the issue of third terms at the center of so many problems in Latin America, from Honduras to Venezuela to Colombia? Claro the fact that my politics differ is part of it but reality is a bigger part. In Latin America, at least the leaders in question attempted to have some sort of vote or referendum on the issue of additional terms, something Bloomberg did not do. Instead he went over the heads of the NYC people and went ahead and changed the term limits law. His justification, saying the city needed his help because of the economic crisis, makes no sense looking at how the economic conditions for Latinos in NYC has worsened. And it’s not just the economics that bother me. While Bloomberg doesn’t have the rabid personality of his predecessor, Giuliani, Latinos and other people of color have experienced some of the same “community policing” tactics but with a nicer facade.
Maybe I really do need to move out of NYC.
Via / The Daily Mail
NY’ers and Others : Don’t Forget to Vote Today
12:51 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Politics · No Comments
3 Nov 2009It’s election day in New York City (and in many other places I’m sure). If you can vote, please do with everything I said before last year’s presidential election holding true.
The biggest race here in my hood is for mayor, with wannabe third term Bloomberg and Bill Thompson as the top contenders and making sure they pander, er campaign to the Latino community. I have seen many more Bloomberg operatives in my immigrant ‘hood and much more of his trash lining the streets of my hood but he does have what, a few billion in his wallet? My mom’s phone has been ringing off the hook though with Spanish language robo-calls featuring former Bronx borough pres Fernando Ferrer telling us to support Thompson.
I won’t tell you who to vote for pero if going by any of the Spanish language campaign ads is any indication, I may have to vote for the Rent is Too Damn High Party (ok, ok I do like the Basta Bloomberg ad).
NYC Mayor Bloomberg gets a Latino Endorser for His Third Term Run : P.R.’s Gov. Fortuño
6:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Politics · 7 Comments
28 Aug 2009
I first noticed the Spanish language door hangers in my Latino NYC hood last week. The door hangers were promoting NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s run for a third term.
Now, I don’t think he should have been allowed to run again. Here in NYC there was this big push for term limits but now because the billionaire mayor wants to keep power, he’s using the poor economy as justification for a third term in office. I think that fear mongering, especially when his model of city as business instead of as communities of people, has hurt more people than it has helped, is a disgusting way to maintain control. Pero people are buying it and supporting him. In NYC the Latino vote is especially important which is why Bloomy is spending alot of time and effort lining up endorsers with Spanish last names.
One of the latest endorsements comes from a non-New Yorker, Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood Governor Luis G. Fortuño. .
In a statement released by the Bloomberg campaign, Fortuño called the mayor an “honest and independent leader who can make the tough, necessary decisions that will create jobs, keep the streets safe and continue the strides in education that have been made over the last few years.”
“New York also needs a leader who understands the diverse nature of the city, appreciates how invaluable it is, and works to ensure this diversity,” Fortuño added.
“When it comes to Latinos, Mayor Bloomberg wants to make sure that all of us are heard.”
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Favors Guest Worker Program
10:12 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Labor| New York City · Comments Off
5 Jul 2006
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is no bobo. He knows how vital immigrants are to the success and survival of the five boroughs he watches over. That’s why today Bloomberg is headed to the City of Brotherly love aka Philadelphia to testify in favor of the guest worker program at a Senate Judiciary Committee. The guest worker (please don’t call it amnesty) program allows undocumented workers to stay in the U.S. working and includes a path to citizenship. According to NY1 Bloomberg said:
The truth of the matter is we need lots of immigrants to come into this country every year. Our birth rate is not high enough to sustain the growth in the economy that we need.
This comes as the mass media is reporting that President Bush may be backing down from his immigration reform plan and may be looking at beefing up the enforcement of immigration laws as priority.
Via / NY1
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