Any reason I should vote for any of the people running in the NYC mayoral primary? I think I pay pretty close attention to city politics but can't figure it out. Most of them seem to talk the talk on housing and some other issues, but some seem like corrupt hacks. All seem blindingly unremarkable and possibly a bit dim. Am I missing something?
In re: Bloomberg, there are plenty of things I detest about him: chiefly, being a tool of corporate interests. But doesn't the recent Hurricane disaster show us that there is much to be said for government that functions well and is neither corrupt nor racist? We do have that with Mike. He's also neither sentimental, stupid, nor cheezy, which I admit I find pretty compelling and unusual. I'm not planning on voting for him, but the fact that I don't really dislike him is kind of demobilizing.
To those who don't live in NYC or don't care about this, apologies for the parochial question.
And, let's not have a debate on whether or not it's worthwhile to vote in Democratic primaries, vote for Democrats ever, vote at all ever, etc. I think we all can guess what everyone else's position is on those questions, and doubt we'll learn much from discussing them.
Liza