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Poll shows New Yorkers want their new mayor to fix NYC - not spout 'wokeness'
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 31, 2021, 3:04:56 PM1/31/21
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to-fix-nyc/
When running for NYC mayor in 1933, the late Fiorello La Guardia declared:
“Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.”
At the time, the city was gripped by the Great Depression. Millions of
Americans were out of work, nearly half the country’s banks had failed,
and New York City’s mayor at the time had presided over scandal, social
unrest and incompetence.
A progressive Republican, La Guardia also considered himself a “New
Dealer.” He appealed to a complex coalition of working-class immigrants
and minorities, middle-class Jews, liberal Democrats and German
Republicans.
“La Guardia intuitively understood the city was in decline and his focus
needed to be in managing the city rather than preaching divisive
ideology,” explained Seth Siegel, a lifelong New York Democrat,
businessman and activist.
Six months ahead of this year’s Democratic mayoral primary — which will
essentially decide who the next mayor will be — New Yorkers are once again
struggling. The pandemic, unemployment and rising crime have prompted even
the most committed Gothamites to get out of Dodge.
History suggests another La Guardia figure is needed.
So does a new Public Policy poll of NYC-based Democratic primary voters.
When asked to name their preferred candidate for mayor, a whopping 40
percent of respondents said they’d prefer “someone else” to the seven
others in the survey: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Wall Street
titan Ray McGuire, former non-profit exec Dianne Morales, Comptroller
Scott Stringer, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former de
Blasio official Maya Wiley, and ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
(Yang came top with 17 percent followed by Adams at 16 percent, with the
rest all falling in the single digits.)
When asked to cite the most important issue in choosing a candidate,
“responding to the coronavirus” and “improving wages and creating more
jobs” came out on top.
Reducing crime, creating more affordable housing, and criminal justice
reform were tied for third; lowering health-care costs ranked fourth; and
lowering taxes and improving K-12 education and schools both came fifth.
Combating climate change and pollution came dead last.
Meanwhile, a full 56 percent of respondents said they hold a “very or
somewhat unfavorable” view of Mayor de Blasio.
These results are very telling. They show a deep disappointment in the
status quo, a rejection of placing ideological platitudes over real
problem-solving during a crisis, and a failure of government at the most
local level to meet the needs of all its people.
New Yorkers are crying out for a pragmatic leader to roll up their sleeves
and fix the big problems. But, so far, that out-of-the-box candidate has
not yet emerged.
“What the city needs is a candidate who recognizes that we’ve got problems
and doesn’t take growth for granted rather than a field of candidates who
are more worried about getting sideways with Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed,” said Michael Hendrix, director of state and
local policy at the Manhattan Institute, which has commissioned surveys
about the state of the city.
That is not what they are getting from the current crop of candidates.
“White progressives are saying ‘Defund the police,’ which is completely at
odds with black and Hispanic council members who say, ‘No, we don’t want
you to defund the police, our council districts don’t want you to do it
either because we’re worried that our kids are going to get shot on the
way home,’ ” Hendrix added.
Hendrix especially sees the candidates approaching City Hall the way de
Blasio did: as a progressive club for insiders that’s slow to respond to
issues while using the job to pursue higher office.
He’s not sure why a practical leader like Rudy Giuliani or Michael
Bloomberg hasn’t appeared yet, “but it’s not too late for that to happen,
it’s a wide-open field and people are hungry for leadership.”
In the meantime, New York’s dissatisfaction with de Blasio’s policies has
taken its toll. While data show that more than 300,000 New Yorkers fled
during eight months of the pandemic’s height in 2020, this exodus actually
started two years before the COVID outbreak. In 2018, NYC’s population
dropped 2.6 percent, leading to 223,950 fewer residents, according to a
city Health Department’s Vital Statistics report that year.
Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli blamed the sky-high cost of living
and decline in quality of life for this years-long exodus.
“It’s all quality of life and cost of living,” Borelli told The Post. “So
many of my friends I grew up with have gone across the bridge to New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and other points south.”
Siegel, a former New York City prosecutor who grew up in Queens and now
lives in Manhattan, said he once shared a friendly relationship with de
Blasio until he “pretty quickly” turned into a polarizing figure.
“Ideology can be toxic in a mayor. And I think that is what ended up
happening in City Hall as the Democratic Party has become ever more woke.”
What he’s looking for now is competency.
“I don’t care what their sexual orientation is. I certainly don’t care
about their race or ethnicity. I just want to vote for somebody who I have
a high confidence is going to see himself or herself as a problem-solver
and not trying to make a statement.”
Good management, he said, is what will save New York.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
to-fix-nyc/
When running for NYC mayor in 1933, the late Fiorello La Guardia declared:
“Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.”
At the time, the city was gripped by the Great Depression. Millions of
Americans were out of work, nearly half the country’s banks had failed,
and New York City’s mayor at the time had presided over scandal, social
unrest and incompetence.
A progressive Republican, La Guardia also considered himself a “New
Dealer.” He appealed to a complex coalition of working-class immigrants
and minorities, middle-class Jews, liberal Democrats and German
Republicans.
“La Guardia intuitively understood the city was in decline and his focus
needed to be in managing the city rather than preaching divisive
ideology,” explained Seth Siegel, a lifelong New York Democrat,
businessman and activist.
Six months ahead of this year’s Democratic mayoral primary — which will
essentially decide who the next mayor will be — New Yorkers are once again
struggling. The pandemic, unemployment and rising crime have prompted even
the most committed Gothamites to get out of Dodge.
History suggests another La Guardia figure is needed.
So does a new Public Policy poll of NYC-based Democratic primary voters.
When asked to name their preferred candidate for mayor, a whopping 40
percent of respondents said they’d prefer “someone else” to the seven
others in the survey: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Wall Street
titan Ray McGuire, former non-profit exec Dianne Morales, Comptroller
Scott Stringer, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former de
Blasio official Maya Wiley, and ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
(Yang came top with 17 percent followed by Adams at 16 percent, with the
rest all falling in the single digits.)
When asked to cite the most important issue in choosing a candidate,
“responding to the coronavirus” and “improving wages and creating more
jobs” came out on top.
Reducing crime, creating more affordable housing, and criminal justice
reform were tied for third; lowering health-care costs ranked fourth; and
lowering taxes and improving K-12 education and schools both came fifth.
Combating climate change and pollution came dead last.
Meanwhile, a full 56 percent of respondents said they hold a “very or
somewhat unfavorable” view of Mayor de Blasio.
These results are very telling. They show a deep disappointment in the
status quo, a rejection of placing ideological platitudes over real
problem-solving during a crisis, and a failure of government at the most
local level to meet the needs of all its people.
New Yorkers are crying out for a pragmatic leader to roll up their sleeves
and fix the big problems. But, so far, that out-of-the-box candidate has
not yet emerged.
“What the city needs is a candidate who recognizes that we’ve got problems
and doesn’t take growth for granted rather than a field of candidates who
are more worried about getting sideways with Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed,” said Michael Hendrix, director of state and
local policy at the Manhattan Institute, which has commissioned surveys
about the state of the city.
That is not what they are getting from the current crop of candidates.
“White progressives are saying ‘Defund the police,’ which is completely at
odds with black and Hispanic council members who say, ‘No, we don’t want
you to defund the police, our council districts don’t want you to do it
either because we’re worried that our kids are going to get shot on the
way home,’ ” Hendrix added.
Hendrix especially sees the candidates approaching City Hall the way de
Blasio did: as a progressive club for insiders that’s slow to respond to
issues while using the job to pursue higher office.
He’s not sure why a practical leader like Rudy Giuliani or Michael
Bloomberg hasn’t appeared yet, “but it’s not too late for that to happen,
it’s a wide-open field and people are hungry for leadership.”
In the meantime, New York’s dissatisfaction with de Blasio’s policies has
taken its toll. While data show that more than 300,000 New Yorkers fled
during eight months of the pandemic’s height in 2020, this exodus actually
started two years before the COVID outbreak. In 2018, NYC’s population
dropped 2.6 percent, leading to 223,950 fewer residents, according to a
city Health Department’s Vital Statistics report that year.
Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli blamed the sky-high cost of living
and decline in quality of life for this years-long exodus.
“It’s all quality of life and cost of living,” Borelli told The Post. “So
many of my friends I grew up with have gone across the bridge to New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and other points south.”
Siegel, a former New York City prosecutor who grew up in Queens and now
lives in Manhattan, said he once shared a friendly relationship with de
Blasio until he “pretty quickly” turned into a polarizing figure.
“Ideology can be toxic in a mayor. And I think that is what ended up
happening in City Hall as the Democratic Party has become ever more woke.”
What he’s looking for now is competency.
“I don’t care what their sexual orientation is. I certainly don’t care
about their race or ethnicity. I just want to vote for somebody who I have
a high confidence is going to see himself or herself as a problem-solver
and not trying to make a statement.”
Good management, he said, is what will save New York.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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