Wednesday, August 28, 2013

De Blasio Close To 40% In New York City Mayoral Race

With 13 days until the primary election, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has surged ahead of the Democratic pack in the New York City mayoral race with 36 percent of likely voters, close to the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is at 21 percent, with 20 percent for former City Comptroller William Thompson, the Quinnipiac University poll reports.  Anthony Weiner has 8 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, with 6 percent for City Comptroller John Liu, 1 percent for former Council member Sal Albanese and 8 percent undecided.

De Blasio is a total clueless Keynesian-type central planner. From his web site:

When wages rise, workers spend more in their neighborhoods, and local businesses can then employ more people.
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Bill de Blasio will advocate for Albany to give New York City the ability to set the minimum wage rate at a level appropriate to the city’s high cost of living and worker productivity, rather than having the same rate as that of lower-cost upstate counties.
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Bill de Blasio has committed to building or preserving nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing in the city over the next decade.
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To fulfill the role abandoned by most banks — providing credit for neighborhood businesses — Bill de Blasio will establish new revolving loan funds targeting low-income neighbor- hoods that support growing industry sectors. By intimately knowing the local economy, economic development hubs will function as “loan officers” to identify and promote the entrepreneurs with the savvy and market opportunity to grow, while building partnerships with private lenders to co-invest. A new NYC Innovation Equity Fund, using a small portion of city pension funds, will target strategic equity investments throughout the five boroughs.
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As mayor, I will spend every waking moment fighting to bring opportunity to every New Yorker — with a plan to create jobs in all five boroughs; a dramatic expansion of affordable housing and accessible health care; increas-ing taxes on the wealthy to fund early childhood and after-school programs; and building police-community relations that keep everyone safer.

2 comments:

  1. sounds like a 'progressive' nightmare

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  2. Its amazing the idiotic and often times competing promises politicians will make to get elected and even more amazing the idiots that will take them seriously and vote for them knowing full well they are being lied to.

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