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2013-04-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Bloomberg Blames 'Partisan Elections' For Alleged Election-Rigging Plot

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The bid was a Democratic state senator conspiring with Republican power brokers to take the Republican/Fusion nomination for the mayoral race. For those of you who don't follow NYC politics, the way that a city with something like a 75-20 partisan split in favor of the Democrats keeps electing nominal Republican mayors in election after election - including, in the last century and change, Strong, Mitchel, La Guardia, Lindsay, Giuliani, Bloomberg - is by fusion tickets, pulling together "reform" Democrats to make up a plurality with the Republican rump.

City mayoral politics are all *about* this sort of thing, although usually it's the good-government types on both sides making a fusion, not the corrupt machine types. And that's where this is a little out of the ordinary. Probably driven by the complete and utter disappearance of anything like the old Tammany Hall apparatus, the easy-money boys are floating around everywhere, there's no magnet to draw them into the Democratic party mainstream.

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-04-04 11:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-04-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 After this scum whore changed election laws to get himself another term.

Posted by newc 2013-04-04 13:02|| 2013-04-04 13:02|| Front Page Top

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