NYC guy wrote:
Help a brother out wrote:Klondike?
I got this.
Racial profiling, spying on Muslims, operating the NYPD outside of NYC (i.e., illegally operating outside its jurisdiction) while targeting Muslims, cutting the funds for the poorest of the poor in the City while growing his personal wealth to over $30 billion -- at least a sixfold increase -- while mayor, spending $130 million of his own money to get the City Council to change the law allowing him a third term (that last bit is sleazy for sure, probably not monstrous, calling Bill DeBlasio a racist for having a black wife and brown kids and showing pics of them during is Mayoral run.
The list is pretty endless.
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none of this gets to the level of monstrous. the NYPD can operate outside of NYC if the local PD allows it to. Not clear if that is the case here, but clearly it is not a serious issue.
Linking cutting funds to the poor to his own wealth is not fair. the city has a budget it must balance - hard choices are made every day.
the third term was weird - I'll call that a mistake but not monstrous. Wish he hadn't done it.
re; di blasio - well, he shouldn't have called it racist. But here is his explanation:
"Mr. Bloomberg added that he did not think that Mr. de Blasio was a racist. But he said, “It’s comparable to me pointing out that I’m Jewish in attracting the Jewish vote."
I think what Bberg was sayign is that he favors a post-racial politics. He is trying to get away from the crude identity politics practiced so often, to the detriment of the country.
is any of this monstrous? really?