[As a more moderator-ly note, I don't think we need a tag for New York City. The New York tag is sufficient IMO.]
Bill Thompson is not even in my top list and it irritates me that both the media and he seem to think that I'm going to vote for him just because he's black. Bill de Blasio and Christine Quinn are warring it out for me, and honestly, I think I only want to vote for Quinn because she's a woman and I think it would be great to have a female mayor. But she does seem like Bloomberg Lite Edition.
Normally campaign ads don't influence me so much, but then again they have never been targeted towards me before and I've honestly never been so undecided. But I've been seeing campaign ads everywhere - Hulu and on the Internet - and they have ALL be de Blasio ads, and they've actually had an appreciable impact on me this time around. He really does seem interested in income inequality and progressive policies in NYC.
yes! sorry, i should have bolded that part of the article. they've actually got a fascinating family -- i thought about posting this introduction to him, but i figured this article had more relevance to the wider issue of progressive politics after obama
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ugh, i have. the idea that bill deblasio is racist for daring to show his black wife and biracial children in his commercial is rich, coming from mike the mensch.
No, don't apologize. It just didn't occur to me that it was his family in his ads. I didn't know much about de Blasio's family life. Very cool, though.
RE: tags, we do have some city tags already. I haven't gone through them exhaustively, but we definitely have tags for Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. I wouldn't want any of those to go, since we've had them for a while, and they are being used (Chicago has been used the most, with 54 occurrences). But if we have tags for ANY city, it seems to me that NYC is entitled to one.
I guess what I'm saying is either we should not have city tags AT ALL, or keep the ones we have and add one for NYC, since it is much larger than any of the ones we have tags for already.
Bill Thompson is not even in my top list and it irritates me that both the media and he seem to think that I'm going to vote for him just because he's black. Bill de Blasio and Christine Quinn are warring it out for me, and honestly, I think I only want to vote for Quinn because she's a woman and I think it would be great to have a female mayor. But she does seem like Bloomberg Lite Edition.
Normally campaign ads don't influence me so much, but then again they have never been targeted towards me before and I've honestly never been so undecided. But I've been seeing campaign ads everywhere - Hulu and on the Internet - and they have ALL be de Blasio ads, and they've actually had an appreciable impact on me this time around. He really does seem interested in income inequality and progressive policies in NYC.
And his son DOES have a rockin' afro.
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my favorite headline is wonkette's: "New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg: Why Must Racist Bill De Blasio Have A Black Wife And Son?"
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I guess what I'm saying is either we should not have city tags AT ALL, or keep the ones we have and add one for NYC, since it is much larger than any of the ones we have tags for already.
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