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My conspiracy theory of the day: the NYC mayoralty race.

Allegation: Anthony Weiner has been kept in that particular race for well past his sell-by date for the express purpose of derailing the electoral prospects of Christine Quinn.  I have absolutely no proof of this, but she was leading earlier, and now she’s not.  Heck, at this point current front-runner Bill de Blasio might not even need to worry about a runoff.

Moe Lane

PS: They’re all pretty much worthless, of course.  Assuming the Democratic candidate wins, his or her legacy will pretty much be to be the Horrible Mayor That Messed Things Up For NYC Until A Real New Yorker Came Along And Fixed Everything.  It’s pretty much a predictable cycle at this point, alas.

Anthony Weiner not pulling out of NYC Mayor’s race…

…I’m sorry.

I’m so dreadfully, dreadfully sorry no I’m not and that is the true horror of it all.

This is the best tweet about all of this.  This Tweet wins the Internets.

If this is not photoshopped x1000 by this time tomorrow the Internet has failed.

You thought that the Weiner-Spitzer thing couldn’t get any funnier, didn’t you?

I mean, how could it?

  • Anthony Weiner is running for NYC Mayor.
  • Anthony Weiner has an excellent chance of getting the Democratic nomination for NYC Mayor.
  • Anthony Weiner thus has a very good chance of becoming the next NYC Mayor.
  • Eliot Spitzer heard this and said Hey, maybe I can get in on this action.
  • Eliot Spitzer is thus running for office in NYC.
  • Eliot Spitzer is running for NYC Comptroller, which I believe keeps an eye out for oh, say, money laundering done to hide a government official’s payments to hookers. Just to pick a scenario at random.
  • Eliot Spitzer might still win.

But that’s not the truly funny part.  Here’s the truly funny part: meet Eliot Spitzer’s Libertarian opponent. Continue reading You thought that the Weiner-Spitzer thing couldn’t get any funnier, didn’t you?

Oh, God, there are *so* many bad puns available for this Weiner poll story…

…including one that would probably get me in major hot water, and deservedly so.  Let us resist temptation:

Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the race for New York City’s Democratic mayoral nomination for the first time, snatching the frontrunner mantle as the contest heads into the final months before the primary, the latest survey from The Wall Street Journal-NBC New York-Marist showed.

Among registered Democrats, Mr. Weiner had 25% of the vote, compared with Ms. Quinn, who had 20%, marking her lowest level of support since polling of the race began. Trailing them were former Comptroller Bill Thompson, at 13%, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, 10% and city Comptroller John Liu, 8%.

It’s gonna be a heck of a campaign. This is, like, going to give me free copy for months.

Moe Lane

 

What the National Guard flap tells us about Bloomberg (who btw endorsed Obama).

This is from yesterday, but it bears noting:

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

Continue reading What the National Guard flap tells us about Bloomberg (who btw endorsed Obama).

#rsrh “IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES!”

Nanny Bloomberg versus the NYC teachers union. Hard to say who I want to see smacked around more on this one:

The city teachers union yesterday demanded a review of the school system’s hiring practices in a move derided by the Bloomberg administration as a distraction from teacher misconduct.

In the wake of record numbers of arrests of teachers on charges of sexual abuse or misconduct involving students, the city has been lobbying for a law giving the chancellor final say in how misbehaving teachers should be disciplined. That power currently resides with an independent arbitrator.

But rather than support the city’s bid to protect students, the United Federation of Teachers turned the tables and pointed at the city’s hiring practices as a potential area for reform.

Continue reading #rsrh “IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES!”

#rsrh Mayor Bloomberg’s (NOT-R) War On Happy Hour.

I apparently would not recognize the City if I went back to it today:

Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.

[snip]

Sources said the happy-hour ban is being pushed by the agency’s marathon-running boss, Commissioner Thomas Farley, and is serious enough for one source to say the alcohol lobby had better find itself a good lawyer.

Continue reading #rsrh Mayor Bloomberg’s (NOT-R) War On Happy Hour.

Choosing Disney over hookers.

This Jim Geraghty post about Bill Clinton’s NYC nostalgia reminds me of my own reaction to Times Square.  Right after college I was looking for work in NYC (didn’t find any, because it was 1993); I walked through Times Square once during that time.  Once: even at noon on a winter’s day the pimps were incredibly aggressive.  Fast-forward four or five years; more-or-less tossed out of grad school*, looking for work again in the City (a lot easier in the late 90s).  Was in Times Square during that and had a moment of extreme confusion because I did not recognize anything.  It was like they stripped out the squalid despair right down to the bedrock, and rebuilt.  The result?  Gaudy, corporate, somewhat crass – and a place where you could have your kid in tow and not be a justifiable case for intervention by Child Services.

There are actually people who are bothered by this.  Speaking as somebody who is actually a productive member of society, I’m not one of them.  And as the previous sentence might suggest, I’m not really impressed with the “But it had character!”  To which I reply**: so does a overstuffed bag of garbage after three days in the hot sun.

Moe Lane Continue reading Choosing Disney over hookers.

White House rises to the level of junior high in wake of NYC elections.

So Rep. Anthony Weiner of NY – who is understandably upset that the Democrats were not able to take advantage of Mayor Bloomberg’s revealed weakness in yesterday’s election – made a somewhat passive-aggressive suggestion that the administration spent too much time on Jon Corzine and pretty much no time at all on Bill Thompson. Such things are inevitable in the aftermath of a lost election, particularly when it’s actually the aftermath of lost elections. The double hammer-blow of losing both Virginia and New Jersey’s governors’ seats is going to make a number of Democrats say some unfortunate things for a while. A prudent or experienced administration will let those things slide.

Fortunately for the GOP, the current one is neither.

“Maybe Anthony Weiner should have manned-up and run against Michael Bloomberg,” shot back a White House official, who attributed the night’s results across the board to anti-incumbent fervor.

…which apparently was not enough to actually eliminate the incumbent in NYC*, but never mind that right now. Anyway, if one is going to trade ‘maybes,’ here’s one: maybe the White House should stop letting people willing to act and talk like a thirteen-year-old speak for it? Even if it’s off the record.

Moe Lane

PS: See also Hot Air and JammieWearingFool.

*Including NYC’s – which I wasn’t, until this came up – there were five major races yesterday. Two had incumbents. One won, one lost.

Crossposted to RedState.