Gay, Smart and Ahead for Mayor of NYC (City Council Speaker) Chris Quinn

 It’s no secret how I feel about the candidates running for mayor in New York City. This is the only place I know that makes national and world history every time a new mayor is replaced. The reason for that is obvious. There is no place like New York wether you feel it sucks or you think is wonderful with it’s landmarks sky scrappers and the Liberty Lady in New York Harbor.  But is more than that.  

To be able to run and get elected and be an average mayor you have to have more smarts, more humor, more know how and management leadership than anybody running for president or for that matter becoming president. I don’t intend to put down the office of president by any means but everything at the White House is so integrated and everyone knows how to dance to the music even if they don’t know the lyrics. In NYC is different. You have to know the lyrics and dance well with no music. You bring everything with you. You need to know how things are running to either keep them running or make changes while things keep running without any hiccups. The city is only allow to hiccup when a hurricane hits or the subways stop running.

 After three terms in office, incumbent mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving behind quite a task for the next mayor of New York City. 

If you take all the mayors this city is had in the past 60 years you will see a bunch of characters that if you put them together they would probably kill each other off or make Buffalo a winter destination. From Mayor La Guardia known for running to fires after firemen to Mayor Rudy Gillionani who made the cops ticket you if you J-walk or stop at the entrance of the subway even if you were pregnant and had to take a break  (true facts) to a billionaire mayor that keep insisting we don’t have a homeless problem to having the city council change the charter to allow him to run a third term something that even Rudy after 9/11 could not do. But if you have billions to spend telling the people how tall you are even your Taylor accustomed to making pants for you with a 14 length will believe you and make them 32-32

Every four years you have a unique set of problems in the city that you didn’t have before. This time the worse it seems to be an unemployment rate that hover over 8% and a recovery effort from a storm that devastated well known areas in NYC. Manhattan is 99% percent recovered with the statue open now and tunnels almost all fixed. But the other areas that people don’t think as part of the city like South Beach Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn to Long Island still show what went through here last fall.

Who is running, whose a top and who’s a bottom?

As New York prepares to vote for mayor again, and polls suggest that Democrats have a powerful advantage. But in more than one recent mayoral race, progressives have seen early optimism vanish by Election Day. And a Democratic win doesn’t guarantee a progressive victory: the Democrat now leading the pack is Christine Quinn, who as speaker of the City Council largely cooperated with the centrist Bloomberg administration.

Most New Yorkers and particularly the gay community are counting our blessings that Christine (Chris) Quinn is running on the Democratic ticket and she is on top but with still most of the summer to go and part of fall, we can’t take it for granted.

Surprisingly you have Anthony Weiner also running as a democrat. This man is someone who had to resign as a congressman from Brooklyn because his bad behavior problem by not just having illicit affairs but by posting his weiner body in the social media. Somehow he believed that having a persistent bad judgement makes it one of the qualifications for the job. Amazing enough he has picked up a lot of points lately. Still behind but there are voters with a short memory span and there are people that give him points for going against the republicans during the Bush years. Not understanding that being a congressman is a breeze compared to the hardest job in the world. People say second, but I think is the hardest job requiring intelligence which we have seen many presidents get away with ..And we are still here. 

 Former MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota who could not get on top of the subway system when he was chairman but has the endorsement  of the current mayor. Yes, that’s right the current mayor who’s had a council president on Chris who has helped him  from getting the third term to backed him on very important issues in NY. Reconstruction, housing and so much more in which her vote and backing was integral for him to get elected particularly the last time. He is a billionaire and you know billionaires don’t have to have allegiance to anyone and surely he doesn’t. He has kicked Chris in back. I do believe that what goes around comes around and he still looking at Washington and if he ever decided to step his little toes in the water he might find out how deep the East River runs. 
Gristedes Supermarkets owner John Catsimatidis have a guaranteed spots on the November ballot, having recently been chosen as the top candidate for the Conservative and Liberal Parties of New York, respectively. Lhota remains a top choice among voters, in part due to his straight-talking persona and his liberal stances on gay marriage and abortion. 

If you are asking outside of Manhattan what Gristedes is I’ll just think people would say is the second reason they can’t afford to live in Manhattan because they can’t afford little supermarkets like Gristedes. He probably think that because Bloomberg is so rich, this most be the season.  If I remember right he tried three years ago and went home with no bacon.

Top issues are the city’s education policies for one. Bloomberg has so far been strict on closing down failing schools and using test scores to judge teacher effectiveness. Democrats say that this is not the way to go. The Police and Police Commissioner with Stop and Frisk.  Affordable housing is another that makes tops.

{There are very important issues with the gay community which I posted on Christine Quinn Unveils her LGTB Policy }
  
Another top issue is "Hate crimes” on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. This a virus that wont go away and the mayor has put it in the back burner. He has been sort of the bad fireman  who rushes to the fire on a 14 cylinder truck after the fire is consumed the building but then goes back to the station overheating and out of gas. No preventive medicine, no fire Marshall to make sure the code is followed. I don’t think he understand it like certain problems that required how the minds of lower middle class and poor New Yorkers work.  So he just gives a show of force and then people are taken to the hospital or morgue, the police goes back to do what ever they were doing and many times the perps get arrested but that does not do much to prevent it from happening again which it keeps happening over and over through his years as mayor.

Oh Gosh I forgot about Bill Thompson and candidate John Liu and Bill de Blasio. Both Democrats. Easy! Bill de Blasio has the easiest job in the world. He gets a salary for a city position in which he has no real power and he knows it, so he doesn’t do much because not much is expected of him. 
Bill Thompson is a long time wanna be for mayor but not much to say about him  except he was the 5th consecutive democrat to loose the mayor’s race. He lost to Bloomberg last time he ran.
John Liu is a supporter of the gay community and is appreciated but he has the same problems as Weiner except they are not sexual in nature. They are in the bad judgment category and the polls say he needs a miracle but like the pope in Rome would attest, a saint can pop up at you when you least expected even if he is a living pope.

{{Adam Gonzalez}}