Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 14 09:52:14 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>How do you clear neighborhoods of beggars? How about affordable housing,
>health care and better funding of drug treatment and mental health centers--
>all of which Green supports.

Right. And I'll bet you $100 he doesn't do anything substantial to make those a reality. If and when he took office, we'd hear about economic realities and the need to make tough choices, etc. etc., just like his models, Clinton & Blair.


>And obviously unions, ACORN and a host of other folks who work day-in and
>day-out with the reality of poverty and joblessness make the same tactical
>decision.

The unions? They have been utterly complicit during the Rudy years - nary a peep about workfare or repression or any of it. They had indictments to defend against, contracts to negotiate.

Doug



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