New York, NY – While Mr. Cuomo was suddenly being talked about as a 2016 presidential contender, Ms. Quinn, who announced an agreement on a $66 billion city budget, was looking mayoral—comfortably filling the shoes of the erstwhile front-runner for the city’s top job, Anthony Weiner.
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Until recently, Ms. Quinn was regarded by many politicos as hamstrung by her alliance with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and their unpopular extension of term limits, as well as by revelations in 2008 that council funds were being assigned to fake organizations or misspent by some of Ms. Quinn’s members.
But those issues are fading, replaced by the euphoria surrounding the marriage bill. Even though the drama unfolded in Albany, far from Ms. Quinn’s sphere of power, she had been among the issue’s champions and is now indelibly linked with an inspirational achievement.
An agreement last month on a new city budget also gave Ms. Quinn a real legislative victory. She earned praise from the business community for not raising taxes and from organized labor for brokering a deal to avoid teacher layoffs and spare 20 fire companies from closing. And Ms. Quinn largely evaded criticism from public-sector unions for allowing attrition to shrink the city workforce by 3.7% next year.
“I think she’s the front-runner now,” said Kenneth Sherrill, a political science professor at Hunter College. “But being a front-runner two years ahead of the primary doesn’t get you much.”
And what percentage of the voting population will refuse pull the lever for an openly Lesbian mayor, I wonder, regardless of her achievements or capability…..
We have seen too many of these liberal politicians who let us get by this year by mortgaging our futures away. If we don’t pay for it now, our children and grandchildren will.
Do you know how much it costs to pay the interest in the Federal budget? Twenty BILLION dollars a month. How much do we take in a month on the federal level? Two Hundred Billion through taxes (payroll, etc). How much does the Obama Admistration spend per month? Three hundred billion.
You do the math. We are getting nowhere quick. Quinn and the other democrats do the same thing. THey ‘look’ good now, but we pay later when they are retired, out of New York.
Quinn is simply unqualified to run this city regardless of her gender orientation. Aside from Chelsea with it’s aging socialists who live in Penn South and it’s large lesbian population Quinn cannot win.
Chevra;
This is NYC, a Major Gay/Lesbian, left wing, democratic voting city.
You may not like who sleeps with whom, but you better get ready to see her visiting the “Rebbis” for a Brocha…
When they will need the Gelt, they will ALL come to the Dog and Pony show.
Christine Quinn will blow NYC right back to the Dinkins era. Crime will once again rise; Real estate values will quickly erode much further than they have; and any productive enterprise will be regulated and taxed into insolubility. It will take 4 years of quinn to usher in a republican mayor…..”giulianni in 2017″!
Reply to #1 (Rachel):
You show you ignorance and bigotry with your silly comment. Sure, in your would rather have a incompetent hetrosexual mayor than a proven leader and concensus builder who can get things done who happens to be gay. She is no threat to you unless you have your own issues to deal with which is usually the case with those who make sucm comments.
There is no one of any stature in either party waiting in the wings to take over.
Christine Quinn had a funding scandal with an aide three years ago that everyone seems to have forgotten about. In 2009 Madam Speaker was earmarking Council monies to pretend nonprofits at the beginning of the year so she could keep the funds to give to other groups later. She was using this slush fund “to thank or pay off politically important allies or cooperative council members. Thankfully for HER, Bloomie ran again, giving her four years to bury the story.
Maybe Marty Markowitz will make a run for it, otherwise the Lesbian Shiksa Queen can start measuring the drapes for Gracie Mansion.
to # 5 – Don’t drag the “rebbis'” into this quagmire.she will be greeted by the rebbetzins !
Also,not that i support her or that life style, as #7 and 8 ,apparently does-there appears to be no issur on the topic of women relationships as opposed to men.
I hope she does get in. She will mess everything up as Dinkins did, and she will be like Obama, a catalyst for people to wake up and get away from leftist agendas and those who push them.
Does anyone think it odd that her “spin doctors” have latched on to a 1960s druggie song “Quinn the Eskimo” (the Mighty Quinn)? Anyway, she is so corrupt that she doesn’t even KNOW she is corrupt. I hope the feds are still actively investigating her slush fund debacle and that she goes to prison sooner rather than later. Her slush fund troubles kept her from running from mayor in the last election, so instead she made a deal with Bloomberg to do a flip-flop on extending term limits–despite the fact that the extension of term limits was voted down by the populace not once but twice already. Democracy is not for sale, Christine Quinn should be in jail.