My mother-in-law, Jewish, a lifelong NYer and a knee-jerk Democratic party liner, voted for Bloomberg because of Guiliani's endorsement. jks
>Subject: Re: Weigh-in on NY mayor elections?
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:52:40 -0500
>
>The results are pretty simple-
>
>Mark Green made the craven decision to support giving Guiliani a
>three-month "extension" on his term.
>
>When he saw outraged liberal support defecting to Ferrer (including the key
>1199 union), he went for the low road and ran an incredibly nasty negative
>campaign against Ferrer, with some of his supporters going off the
>reservation (but only barely off the party line) to trash Sharpton.
>
>Green barely squeeked through to victory in the runoff, but left the latino
>and black community bitter.
>
>On election day, leaders supporting Ferrer sat on their hands, and large
>parts of the Democratic base either stayed home (especially black voters)
>or defected to Bloomberg (half the latino voters).
>
>Green blew it. Pretty much end of story. Ferrer supporters who sat home,
>especially the union leadership, may come to regret their decision not to
>hold their nose and turnout for Green, but the fault is overwhelmingly with
>Green. He has great politics but he was arrogant as hell and paid for it.
>
>-- Nathan Newman
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:31 AM
>Subject: Weigh-in on NY mayor elections?
>
>
>Hey New Yorkers -- want to give us a little LBO spin on what happened in
>mayor's race Tuesday?
>
>
>
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