On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> Time, money, & intelligence spent on electing "left" people to Congress must rank with watching the pretty bubbles in the sink for uselessness.
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> Um, Carrol? These are local elections. Not Congress.
But you could say something similar about the City Council. NYC is run by the FIRE elite and the elected personnel doing their bidding may change but it's the same agenda. You'd need much more nonelectoral organization (including better unions) to change that.
Doug