A friendly reminder for New Yorkers on Election Day Eve:

[SpongeBob]

There IS a connection between local and national politics. Mike Bloomberg IS a
Republican. He had protesters arrested at his Republican convention and put in
the hands of Republican operatives. He prevents us from using Central Park for
rallies. Recently he took away Cindy Sheehan's mic at Union Square. Bloomberg follows
the Republican line on same sex marriage, and of course using money for stadiums in
Manhattan and Brooklyn, not for housing or other services. His bigotry shows
when he says that the reason for more asthma in dilapidated areas is that "those people
don't have good hygiene."

I've spoken to some of the Bloomberg "supporters" on the street. I believe that many of
them are simply being paid to leaflet for him. But there are others who are just true
blue Bush-loving Republicans (though they don't always say it at first). One woman almost
hit me today when i said I didn't support Bush. Another told my wife the other day
that she should go back where she came from if she doesn't support the administration.

This election may be more important, have more ramifications than we have been lead
to believe.

[snowbear]

1. Is tomorrow NYC's mayoral election?

If so.. wow.. that means tommorow is..

New Jersey - Governor's election
Virginia - Governor's election
San Diego - Mayoral election
New York City - Mayoral election

Other propositions, special elections, etc..

Washington state
Maine
Ohio

What else?

Can anyone update, add, delete or correct this list? BUSY TUESDAY!

[snowbear]

2. Ok... I looked it up. ...Bloomberg has a MASSIVE lead !!

According to every single news source I could find on Google.. http://eliteleague.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/duh!.gif

Most polls I found show him with a 30 point lead.. Bloomberg news shows him with a 38 percent lead. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-bloomberg_x.htm

Wow.. :o I didn't know he was that popular there! He grinds my nerves when he talks.. x( x( x( x(

[robbedvoter]

3. All the news services are either his property or lease for the election

Bloomberg has done with impunity everything Bush did during the campaign and more: intimidated any potential donors for his oponent, effectively stiffled any opposing information and bought all endorsements (NYT describes him as the bestest mayor of all times). New Yorkers seem in trance - passively allowing the GOP to take over "it's OK, he's practically a democrat" and "he hates bush" being some of the memes...
It's a nightmare!

[Golden Raisin]

6. Bloomberg is spending gazillions

Bloomberg is spending gazillions of his huge fortune on TV ads, mass mailings, you name it. He has incredibly deep pockets --- virtually endless --- he is a billionaire. His opponent, Ferrer, doesn't even fall/register on the same scale of campaign money. Bloomberg spent a fortune of his own money the first time he ran (successfully) for mayor --- its basically buying the election by outspending everyone else and totally saturating the market with your campaign ads, etc. Ferrer has unfortunately run a very poor, bumbling campaign and all the polls have Bloomberg ahead by huge numbers. It's quite depressing --- especially in a traditionally Democratic town like NYC. Maybe the gods are punishing us for hosting the Republican convention.

[robbedvoter]

7. It was Bloomberg - not us - that brought the GOP convention

to NYC. If only the people who protested that day would remember that much, Bloomberg would be history.

[Cha]

11. I would think all those New

Yorkers that were jailed during the "repuke convention" would be voting against bloomberg?

I read in 2004 that Congressman Anthony Weiner was going to take on bloomberg for the mayor's seat..do you know what happened to Weiner?

[SpongeBob]

12. He could be easily ousted...

Weiner ran and lost in the primary to Fernando Ferrer, who's running on the Democratic ticket. You would think that the huge number of protesters at the convention and at anti-war marchers would make these connections and vote out Bloomberg, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I think many don't vote, some vote for the Green Party, etc. and some are actually hypnotized enough to think Bloomberg is some sort of harmless "independent."

[snowbear]

4. Spongebob.. I don't know how your wife held her cool.

...."Another told my wife the other day that she should go back where she came from if she doesn't support the administration."

Un-freaken-believable!

:mad: But it sounds JUST LIKE A REPUBLICAN, don' they?? :mad:

They characterize ReTHUGS and their pathetic racist party through and through!! :puke:

[SpongeBob]

5. My wife also reminds me:

She replied to this woman that the reason she doesn't leave this country is because "there are people here a lot better than you." Anyway, there are still so many New Yorkers who think Bloomberg is a harmless, little "Independent" of some sort.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. What ethnicity is your wife?

The way you told it makes it seem like it was race-related. Personally, if anyone told me the same thing (I'm of East Indian descent/born and raised American), I'd kick their ass so hard they'd be crapping out of their mouth.

BTW, and this is for anyone on the thread, how can Bloomberg spend so much of his own money? Are mayoral campaigns not as restricted as Presidential ones?

[SpongeBob]

13. She's from Romania, and this person noticed an accent

Bloomberg is spending millions on tv and other ads, leafletting, etc. I haven't seen one person leafletting for Ferrer in my area (which is not particularly Republican).

[robbedvoter]

8. Recommended. It should be up there tommorrow.

[Cha]

10. Read this on "What's the Matter With

New York?"..



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2231415

[SpongeBob]

15. Thank you Zidzi,

This cartoon says it all.

[robbedvoter]

14. OK, New Yorkers, go vote against the GOP-ers - get your friends too!

Just because our candidate is s* is no excuse to roll over. It's not like it's the first time I voted for a lousy candidate - at least Ferrer made it clear he was against the war!