What's so great about Bloomberg?

[Sam Spade]

He's a nanny-stater, like most of the people on this forum.

[Sam Spade]

... nanny-stater, like most of the people on this forum.

Is that true, Sam, as to the forum?  I would have thought it was more secular city central , than nanny stater nirvana, but then I just put in cameo appearances.

Nah, your assessment is much more correct than mine.  That comment was a bit of flame-throwing to see what response I can get, considering Bloomberg is fairly popular here.  Plus, my own personal experience with the man makes me quite negative towards him. (hence the flamethrowing)

Of course, secular city central and nanny state nirvana are not diverse opposites - in many areas they share the same views.  But this forum has always been a secular city central, of sorts.  The difference is that before the middle of 2006, it was really more economically libertarian - now it's just economically liberal, for the most part.

[Sam Spade]

Plus, my own personal experience with the man makes me quite negative towards him. (hence the flamethrowing)

What happened?  I know he was accused of sexual harassment several years ago. Was this a personal matter?

The sexual harassment thingy (which seems to be a problem at Bloomberg LP, because they settled another case quite recently and there were others before that) will be for the general election - I personally don't care about that.

The personal experience has to do with work in city government, we'll just leave it at that.

And I really don't like the nanny-state crap or congestion pricing or telling NYers to be friendly to tourists or the other crap he does.

Whatever, I don't think we'll agree here, so there.