NYC General Discussion - You Hear That Giant Sucking Sound?

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He's made it very clear that he's not here to listen to public opinion. He's here for "justice".

I've never seen a politician burn their bridges so quickly. He's negative in approval rating three months in, digging a deeper hole every day, and has pissed off the Governor from his own party. And the thing is, I really don't think he cares. He knows he's got almost four more years of absolute control to undo the Giuliani/Bloomberg years.

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Uh, sure.  Certainly looks to me like "impugning his personal or professional integrity" is kind of what this whole article is about.

I've never seen a politician burn their bridges so quickly. He's negative in approval rating three months in, digging a deeper hole every day, and has pissed off the Governor from his own party.

To be fair, Cuomo is hardly a Democrat.

That's really more a statement of how the Democratic party has lurched far to the left in recent years. Cuomo is a perfectly normal centrist Democrat butting heads with a Mayor who is essentially a Democratic Socialist.

Hell, he's even stopped fracking from going forward by delaying it indefinitely.

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You simply cannot take people's donations that they chose to give to a certain cause, and give it to another cause. That's a great way to dry up donations, and should be illegal.

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The gross inequity in parks funding is a real issue, and one which materially harms poorer and outer-borough New Yorkers, even if one were to accept the argument that Central and Prospect Parks deserve more money because they bring in tourists.  I suspect that this particular approach won't pass legal muster, but I do support efforts to try focus more attention on the smaller and more outlying neighborhood parks.  I'd start with a PR blitz to try and get people to shift their donations to the smaller parks, as well as moving the Parks Dept. operating budget in that direction.

(Also, this is a great example of how and why private charity is a pisspoor substitute for public spending.)

It's a worthy cause, I agree. It's just that the proposed solution is wildly unconstitutional. Your idea sounds like a solid one to try to close that gap a bit.

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