New York City – Mayor Bloomberg is paying back New York Republicans for supporting his failed congestion pricing plan by promising to help the struggling party retain its majority in the state Senate.
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“I’ve said repeatedly, I’ll help those who help this city. The Republicans in the state Senate were willing to vote for congestion pricing and the Democrats were not,” Bloomberg said Thursday. In a phone call this week to new Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Bloomberg pledged to lend him a hand in fighting the Democrats during elections this fall.
The Democrats are two seats away from taking control of the Senate. It’s not clear if Bloomberg’s aid will come in the form of cash but the billionaire Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent has plenty to spare.
Bloomberg is bitter that the Democratic-controlled Assembly refused to vote on his plan to charge motorists to drive on Manhattan’s most congested streets.
“There is a whole bunch of things where they [Republicans] have been there to help us. If the Democrats help us, I’ll support them as well,” Bloomberg told reporters.
Noykem veniter is a understatement for this mayor he is bringing us back to communist russia with all his rules & gezaires killing the construction industry killing your peace of mind in regards to traffic & sanitation etc. We got to get this guy out asap
HE WILL HAVE THE SAME END AS SPITZER DID
to powerfull put him in the erd
Gotta give the Mayor credit for the good things he has done. Bans on smoking, tried to limit cars. Do you want to wait until the air is so polluted that you (chas vesholem) have trouble breathing?
…So, he, (the Hon. [former] Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who, BTW remembers his Jewish name when convenient. i.e. when seeking political support) is after all a Republican! Rumors to the contrary not withstanding!!!
Yet another reason to vote Democratic this fall.
I think that he is an overall good mayor just wrong on this issue. He has to understand that the average New Yorker can not afford any more money with regard to getting to work. Some people do not have the option really not to drive into Manhattan for example when I lived in Brooklyn and had to commute to Jersey City for my job. There was just no other reasonable or affordable way to get there and at that time they were not letting people with one driver into Manhattan after 911. I just had to take my chances everyday.
Yes and thats why Shelly Silver should be elected again. It was just another tax, if Bloomberg was so concerned about traffic why did he want to build a giant football stadium where thousands of cars would have had to drive into the city polluting and tieing up traffic. Go figure that logic
The stadium was a really stupid idea. The other really stupid thing the mayor has done is to oppose the cross Hudson rail freight tunnel. It could dramatically reduce interstate truck traffic within the city and dramatically improve air quality, especially in northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Congestion Pricing isn’t quite such a stupid idea — bridge tolls serve a similar purpose and we have plenty of them in the area — but it makes no sense to try to encourage more use of public transit when all the subway lines from the areas most affected are at or over capacity.