Bill de Blasio and the politics of race suicide ...

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/10/18/de-blas...-in-spotlight/

De Blasio’s daughter gets a turn in spotlight
By Yoav Gonen and Beth DeFalco
October 18, 2013 | 7:09am


Chiara de Blasio with father Bill.


Move over, Dante.

After turning his son into a local phenom with a star turn in a campaign ad during the primary, Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio is now giving his orange, bootlipped mongrel daughter the spotlight.

In a broadcast and cable television ad launched Thursday, college sophomore Chiara de Blasio touts her father’s positions on universal pre-K, reforming stop-and-frisk and hospital closures.

“Now that my dad’s on the move, his opponents are on the attack,” she says in the 30-second spot.

The 18-year-old concludes by referencing brother Dante’s fame, largely sparked by his towering Afro.

“All of this attention — it’s a good thing. As long as it’s not your little brother,” she says.

The ad was a stark contrast to a Lhota campaign commercial released Wednesday — which raised the specter of the city returning to its decades-old crime-filled ways if de Blasio takes the reins.

“This ad represents my belief that Bill de Blasio, and the policies he’s espoused – especially the ones he doesn’t talk about – will make this a dangerous place,” Lhota said in Far Rockaway Thursday. “I don’t think its negative at all. … I view that as my point of view.”

De Blasio slammed the ad as “fear-mongering” after an early campaign event in Manhattan.

[Tony Houseman]

orange, bootlipped mongrel daughter

I like that phrase.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/10/23/ex-felo...sios-campaign/

Ex-felon Clinton ally helps fund de Blasio’s campaign
By Yoav Gonen
October 23, 2013 | 5:53am


Paul Adler (left) stands behind Hillary Clinton at a 2000 campaign event.


A former Hillary Rodman Clinton ally who served time for felony fraud and federal corruption is among those leading the charge to put Bill de Blasio into City Hall, The Post has learned.

Former Rockland County Democratic Chairman Paul Adler — who was also eyed in the Bill Clinton clemency-for-votes probe in New Square a decade ago — was among nine co-chairs at de Blasio’s million-dollar fund-raiser in Midtown on Monday.

Jew Adler and his wife, Mary, got a private audience with de Blasio and host Hillary Clinton for raising at least $25,000 toward the Democratic candidate’s campaign.

Adler, like de Blasio, had been a close advisor to Clinton’s 2000 senate campaign in New York and had even hosted her at his home.

Now a Vice President at Rand Commercial Services, Adler was sentenced to 19 months in prison in 2002 after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges — including accepting bribes from developers and attempting to influence members of a local zoning board. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion for not reporting $150,000 worth of income.

A party bigwig at the time, Adler’s files had reportedly been seized by the FBI in 2001 as part of a probe into President Bill Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of four Orthodox Jews who had been convicted of stealing federal anti-poverty funds in New Square.

The clemency came on Clinton’s last day in office, after the Hasidic town had overwhelmingly voted for Hillary for Senate — by a margin of 1,400 to 12.

The federal probe was subsequently dropped.

A spokesman for the de Blasio campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.

But Adler, who in the past decade has passed the state bar and was named Rockland County’s philanthropist of the year in 2011, said his support of de Blasio was strictly borne out of friendship.

“I have known Bill since 1996. My interest in the race is strictly personal,” he told The Post. “The only reason I wanted to help is because he’s a friend.”

Among the other co-chairs at the Roosevelt Hotel bash were three lobbyists at two of the city’s top firms. Kasirer Consulting founder Suri Kasirer and senior VP Julie Greenberg — whose clients include major real-estate developers like Extell Development and Forest City Ratner — each helped raise at least $25,000, and Capalino+Company’s James Capalino raised a similar amount.

Capalino represents Rudin Management, which is building the West Village luxury condos that de Blasio fought against when trying to save St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center from closing in 2010.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/03/de-blas...sr-in-college/

De Blasio visited Communist USSR in college
By Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen
November 3, 2013 | 3:16pm

Hope those Ukraine girls really knocked him out.

Bill de Blasio toured parts of the communist Soviet Union as the Cold War raged, The Post has learned.

The Democratic mayoral candidate — who is enjoying a huge lead over Republican Joe Lhota coming into Tuesday’s election — was “back in the USSR” in 1983 while a student at NYU.

It was the same year that President Ronald Reagan referred to the country’s regime as “The Evil Empire.”

De Blasio’s trip also occurred five years before he went to Nicaragua in support of the Marxist Sandinista regime there to distribute food and medicine during its civil war. At the time, the US government opposed the Sandinistas, which had received weapons from the Soviets and supplies from Cuba.

The trips show de Blasio’s fascination as a young man with the workings of leftist and communist countries. He also honeymooned in Cuba.

While de Blasio has discussed and defended his work in Nicaragua, he has said nary a word about going behind the Iron Curtain.

De Blasio listed the trip on a résumé from the 1990s. Under “travel,” he said he visited “West Africa, Europe, Israel, Puerto Rico, USSR.”

A de Blasio campaign spokeswoman confirmed that her boss went to the United Soviet Socialist Republic as a student in 1983.

“When he was a presidential scholar at NYU, Bill attended an annual trip that took him to Lithuania and Russia. In other years, he traveled — along with other presidential scholars — to Spain, Israel and Senegal,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Lis Smith.

“He went in 1983, when they were still a part of the USSR.”

The de Blasio campaign declined to comment further when asked why he went on the trip or what he learned from it.

The campaign referred other questions to NYU about who paid for and arranged the trips.

An NYU spokesman had no immediate comment.

De Blasio’s trip to the USSR came amid frayed relations between the United States and the Soviets near the Cold War’s end.

In 1980, at the behest of President Jimmy Carter, the United States boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the year prior. Carter also suspended wheat shipments to the USSR.

Carter curbed US exchange programs with the Soviets, too.

In retaliation, the USSR boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

In the same year de Blasio toured the USSR, Reagan gave his famous “Evil Empire” speech. He particularly blasted Americans seeking a reduction in nuclear arms.

The Soviets “preach the supremacy of the state, dictate its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world,” Reagan said in his March 8, 1983, speech to the National Association of Evangelicals.

“So, in your discussions of the nuclear-freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”

De Blasio has been involved with anti-nuke groups, including being an organizer for the Physicians for Social Responsibility.

It wasn’t until the late 1980s that relations thawed between the United States and Soviet Union during Reagan’s second term and after Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the Soviet premier.

In 1986, the United States and USSR announced an agreement increasing cultural, scientific and educational exchange programs. And they cut a historic deal to scale back their nukes.

A few years later, the Soviet Union collapsed, bringing long-awaited freedoms to Russia and many Eastern Bloc countries.

[The Bobster]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/1...ons-99438.html

Landslide for New York liberal Bill de Blasio
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE | 11/5/13 11:34 PM EST Updated: 11/6/13 8:45 AM EST


From left: Dante, Chiara, Bill and Chirlane de Blasio are shown. | AP Photo


NEW YORK — Democratic New York is back — though really, it was here all along.

Bill de Blasio trounced Joe Lhota on Tuesday to return City Hall to Democratic hands for the first time since David Dinkins was ousted in 1993, riding the coalition of traditional liberals, young progressives, politically active unions and minority voters that’s come to dominate city politics.

His win brought what was under the surface to the top: Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg won the past five citywide elections on the strength of their mega-personalities and the particularities of the circumstances, not because New York was a secret bastion of Republican politics.

“The people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and we set forth on it together, as one city,” de Blasio said, first in English, then in Spanish, from a podium topped by a “PROGRESS” sign, looking out at a throbbing crowd that packed the streets waiting to get into the Park Slope Armory YMCA .

De Blasio won his race by a landslide — 45 percentage points, according to results available as he declared victory — and he is joined by other city candidates like Comptroller-elect Scott Stringer and Public Advocate-elect Tish James, who embrace ideas that would be called class warfare anywhere else in the country. They want to drive up union membership, raise taxes and regulate Big Business.

To date, the progressivism de Blasio represents has essentially been a theory popular among idealistic local lefty politicians. The new mayor and his ideological allies coming into every other position of power in January are going to be giving it an extremely high-profile test.

The people celebrating Tuesday night are confident that their victories will send a message that will be heard far beyond the city. De Blasio’s win, to hear his core supporters tell it, is part of a shift in Democratic politics that began with Eric Schneiderman’s New York attorney general win in 2010, continued with Elizabeth Warren’s Senate win last year in Massachusetts and got an across-the-board boost in New York City on Tuesday.

It’s a fitting coincidence that the new film of “Great Expectations” movie had its premiere in New York on Tuesday night.

“Despite what you might have heard, we are one city,” Lhota said in his concession speech, knocking de Blasio’s “tale of two cities” message. “I do hope our mayor-elect understands this before it’s too late.”

De Blasio rebutted that line of thought as he claimed victory.

“That inequality, that feeling of a few doing very well while so many slip further behind, that is the defining challenge of our times, because inequality in New York is not something that only threatens those that are struggling,” he said. “The stakes are so high for every New Yorker, and making sure no sons or daughters of New York are left behind defines the very promise of our city.”

The marching orders from the voters to reach high are clear, Stringer told POLITICO ahead of his win.

“They want a progressive government that’s going to fight Washington, fight for our fair share of resources,” he said. “We’re just not going to stand around and get pushed around.”

As much as this race became a referendum on rejecting Bloomberg, New York 1 exit polls still showed the mayor at 52 percent approval. In part, that’s because despite running three times on the Republican line, most people saw Bloomberg as practicing his own brand of politics: fiscally cautious, socially laissez-faire, progressively interventionist on public health and other issues — and above all, hyper-attentive to management.

Tuesday’s overwhelming numbers aside, most people expect New Yorkers won’t have much patience for any of the progressive experimentation de Blasio and his allies are eager to do if it comes at the expense of the city running less smoothly than they’ve come to expect.

But the numbers and the exit polls leave little doubt about how much voters wanted change.

“They were willing to give some benefit of the doubt in terms of innovation and change under a Bloomberg administration, but too much of his administration at the end of the day became status quo,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who campaigned with de Blasio at a subway stop in Crown Heights on Tuesday afternoon. “And that’s why I think the pendulum has swung — because New York has always been a Democratic city.”

[M. Gerard]

There's nothing special in a good way about that kid.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/de-blas...sh-utopianism/

De Blasio wins with Obama’s babyish Utopianism
By Michael Goodwin
November 5, 2013 | 9:42pm



Maybe the gods have a puckish sense of humor, or maybe they are telegraphing the trouble ahead. Either way, it cannot be mere coincidence that Barack Obama’s namesake experiment in left-wing social engineering is crashing just as New Yorkers are poised to crown an ideological soul mate.

“Don’t do it, don’t go there,” is the only rational response to the prospect of a Mayor de Blasio just as the ObamaCare debacle comes into view. But the race for City Hall proves that elections are not always exercises in rational thinking.

If they were, this contest would have started and ended on how New York could continue its 20-year run of remarkable progress on public safety and prosperity. Instead, voters signaled they preferred the candidate who vowed to dismantle the gains and redistribute the fruits. Backwards, march!

Sex sells beer and newspapers, but class warfare is going like hot cakes in Democratic politics. Preaching unity while practicing division is hardly a new idea, but there is no denying that the old trick is on a new winning streak.

Consider that New Yorkers are buying a pitch almost identical to the one they bought last year, with striking similarities between the president and mayor-in-waiting.

Obama and de Blasio are red-diaper babies whose fathers disappeared, and both have biracial families. Both changed their names and expressed enduring interest in anti-American radicals — Obama learned from Bill Ayres and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while de Blasio cheered the Sandinistas and Fidel Castro.

They became community organizers before entering elective politics, where they were undistinguished until riding vague promises of change to the top of the heap.

Their triumphs testify to their talents and persistence. But it is no accident that de Blasio became a copycat of Obama, who has redefined liberalism, and not for the better.

Under Obama, Dems have moved so far left that Bill and Hillary Clinton were caught off guard, their center-left orientation leaving them dust-covered relics. Oddly, de Blasio started out in the Clinton clan — he worked for Bubba and helped run Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign — but adopted the Obama Way after the president topped 80 percent in the city in 2008 and 2012.

De Blasio’s direct appeals to racial and ethnic minorities, the unemployed, white women, the young and unions are straight out of the president’s playbook. So, too, are his scorn for those not charmed by calls for tax hikes; they also share the moralizing habit of denouncing big spending by opponents while embracing it among supporters.

Most troubling, neither Obama nor de Blasio had a whit of management experience before being entrusted with government power and huge bureaucracies. And neither had the wisdom to realize that shooting for the moon to remake a mature, complex society ends up leaving most people worse off, especially those they purport to be helping.

It has taken nearly five years for a majority of Americans to smell it, but the stench of failure surrounding Obama’s radical ideas is unmistakable. His health-care law’s inherent flaws are being revealed, adding to the crisis of incomes and labor participation. Many “ObamaCare losers” will not find a doctor, even if they find insurance.

National security is slipping, too, with our enemies emboldened and our friends alarmed at his abdication of global leadership. Most Americans now say we will become a second-rate power sooner rather than later.

Many New Yorkers fear de Blasio’s utopian schemes will have the same effect here, that he will wreak havoc on finances and the economy and jeopardize the record-low crime levels.

It all begins with the NYPD. If de Blasio handcuffs cops, the inevitable crime spike will claim the lives of more black and Latino young men. If the spike becomes the new normal, families and businesses will look for safer pastures, and the city’s death spiral will have begun.

He will react by freezing prices — rents, for example — and slap more controls on businesses in terms of pay and benefits. Each step will be popular with his base but ultimately fail to help because the laws of economics and human nature are immutable. That is the lesson of Cuba he didn’t learn.

Admittedly, this sounds like a worst-case scenario, but there is no way de Blasio can keep his promises and also keep the city moving forward. He was resolute in vowing to turn the page on the last 20 years, and the consequences of that mistake will, sooner or later, be felt by every New Yorker.

Those counting on his pledge to fix the “affordability” crisis will be especially disappointed because much of the price burden is the trickle-down result of the high cost of government. Everything de Blasio wants to do will only increase that burden.

Naturally, there will be winners. Business titans willing to pay tribute will be rewarded with favors, proving again that cronyism lives when capitalism dies.

Then there are the unions. Their push for retroactive pay is so unreasonable that it could be the first big test. A capitulation will signal weakness and open the door to endless demands for more, more, more.

Don’t be surprised. Just remember, you’ve been warned that de Blasio will do for New York what Obama is doing for America.

[screaminjay]

The Bobster, it seems all the articles you quote from the NYPost were written by people of a certain minority group.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/working...hall-takeover/

Working Families Party giddy at City Hall takeover
By Carl Campanile
November 7, 2013 | 4:03am

The lefties are coming!

After two decades of fighting City Hall, the nigger leaders of the Working Family Party are giddy that their candidates will control the levers of power at virtually all levels of Gotham’s government.

“We expect real change, real results,” declared nigger WFP co-founder Bertha Lewis, a longtime pal of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.

“There are very high expectations.”

The labor-backed party hit the trifecta this election season.

De Blasio, long a WFP favorite, will be running the government.

Nigger Letitia James, who was first elected to the City Council a decade ago on the WFP line, is the new public advocate.

She’s so loyal to the party that she urged supporters to cast their ballot for her on the WFP line instead of the more mainstream Democratic line.

The city’s third citywide official, Democratic Comptroller Scott Stringer, also came into office with WFP backing.

In the City Council, at least a dozen members lined up with the party and are prepared to push its agenda.

Communication Workers of American boss Bob Master — a co-founder of the WFP 15 years ago — marveled that the progressive agenda is on the new mayor’s to-do-list after being resisted for a generation.

“We are thrilled that this day has come,” said Master, who likened the election of de Blasio to a “New Deal” for the 21st century.

“We will partner with the new mayor and forge a new direction for the city. We will look forward to working with Bill to achieve our goals.” said Master.

For him, de Blasio’s ascendance is personal as well as political.

A Park Slope neighbor of the mayor-elect, the union leader handed out pamphlets to get the up-and-comer elected to the council in 2001.

Lewis, who is the former ACORN chief, said she’s thrilled at having a seat at the table.

“We’ve been out in the wilderness for 20 years,” she said.

But Lewis stressed that observers have to look beyond de Blasio to understand the success of the WFP and the progressives.

She said the election of James as public advocate and the addition of allies in the council would help propel the progressive agenda in a de Blasio administration.

“Our ties in the government run deep,” Lewis boasted.

Like Master, the self-described street organizer expects to have the ear of the de Blasio administration.

But she said de Blasio won’t get a free pass from her if he deviates from the progressive reservation.

“When we disagree with Bill, we’re going to say it. We’re not letting people off the hook,” Lewis said.

De Blasio on Wednesday announced the first appointments to his transition team, which will be co-chaired by Jennifer Jones Austin and Carl Weisbrod.

Despite de Blasio’s criticism of Mayor Bloomberg during the campaign, both have ties to Hizzoner.

Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, previously served as Bloomberg’s family services coordinator.

Weisbrod, who served in both city and state government, is a Bloomberg’s appointee to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Trust for Governors Island.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/09/lefty-t...uncil-speaker/

Lefty trio emerges for Council Speaker
By Yoav Gonen
November 9, 2013 | 12:11am


L-R: Melissa Mark-Viverito, Mark Weprin and Dan Garodnick are all in the running for Council Speaker.


SAN JUAN, PR — Three City Council members have emerged as early favorites in the race for speaker — with progressives rallying to Manhattan’s Melissa Mark-Viverito, a close ally of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, sources said.

During a flurry of activity at the annual Somos el Futuro conference in Puerto Rico, council members Dan Garodnick of Manhattan and Mark Weprin of Queens have also won early support as moderate alternatives to Mark-Viverito, who is considered to the left of even de Blasio.

Local 1199 of SEIU — the illegal alien toilet scrubber's union that supported a good number of victorious candidates in Tuesday’s elections, including the next mayor — flooded the annual conference of Hispanic legislators with operatives talking up Mark-Viverito.

“They’re being very aggressive,” one source said. The union even tossed a party to promote her candidacy Thursday night.

But some council members say there’s also significant push-back against the East Harlem legislator, both among several progressives and from Democratic Party county leaders who have previously played key roles in picking the speaker.

“The members are very concerned because most of the members do not get along with Melissa,” one council member said.

There are also concerns about her from business and real-estate interests, one source added.

The tug of war between the Progressive Caucus — which numbers 15 to 20 members depending on who’s doing the counting — and county leaders is complicated by the fact that de Blasio could play a major role in the race if he wants to.

“Gravity shifted,” one returning council member said of the mayor-elect’s influence. “There’s a pull toward a new pole.”

But some who are close to the negotiations cautioned de Blasio could lose a lot of political capital by forcing an unwanted speaker on the local legislature.

They describe the incoming administration’s support for Mark-Viverito thus far as “signaling” rather than outright “pushing” — but coming largely through the powerful union.

“Melissa has no momentum on her own,” said one source. “It’s all de Blasio and 1199.”

Council members Annabel Palma (D-Bronx), James Vacca (D-Bronx) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Queens) are also considered possible candidates in the race, where the public has no role.

Among the issues that have emerged are which candidates support the Progressive Caucus’ agenda for reforming council rules and whether the candidates have one or two terms left in office.

Current Speaker Christine Quinn’s heavy hand has made some members wary of electing someone to lead the body for eight years.

“There’s a lot of . . . gossiping *going on . . . I’m just doing what I have to do,” said Weprin, who has two terms left in office. “We’re talking about issues, we’re talking about personalities we’re talking about who could do a good job.”

The race for speaker, on which the 51 council members will vote in January, has dragged through late December in previous openings. The next speaker needs support from 26 members to claim the mantle.

While his name was being mentioned everywhere throughout the hallways and ocean-view decks at the Condado Plaza hotel, de Blasio kept an extremely low profile since arriving Thursday. He spoke with reporters briefly at the governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, but didn’t have another public event until late Friday night at a reception thrown by the chair of the conference, Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz.

The mayor-elect was scheduled to make himself ever more scarce over the weekend by taking a mini-vacation with his nigger wife, Chirlane McCray, somewhere on the Caribbean island.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/08/guards-...sio-son-dante/

Guards could be in the cards for de Blasio mulatto spawn Dante
By Jamie Schram
November 8, 2013 | 11:34pm


Mayor Bill de Blasio (right) hugs his son Dante Inferno de Blasio (left) and daughter Charcoal de Blasio on election night.


Some of the biggest de Blasio fambly decisions are in Dante’s orange hands.

First, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio indicated he was leaning toward living in his Park Slope, Brooklyn, home so his 16-year-old son will be closer to school.

Now it turns out that Dante gets to decide whether he’ll be assigned a police security detail like his parents.

“Dante gets a detail if he wants it. If Dante gets the detail, they will probably be driving him to [high] school,” said a law-enforcement source. “No subways.”

But if he says no to security, his father has to agree.

“If he doesn’t want it and his father says it’s okay, he doesn’t have to have it,” the source added.

Bill de Blasio will be getting a security team of about 19 officers, working different shifts, the source said.

If the new mayor decides to live in Park Slope, he will get the same security that Mayor Bloomberg did while residing at his East Side town house — “at least two officers around the clock standing in front of his home,” the source said.

His sheboon wife, Chirlane McCray will also get a security detail of at least one, and most likely two officers, as well as a car, under projected plans.

Dante’s 18-year-old sister, Chiara, is attending an out-of-state college and would not be assigned security.

Sources said that security for de Blasio would be in line with that of the protection of his predecessors.

Bloomberg’s two grown daughters didn’t live with him so the assigned protection was basically just for the mayor.

[luftwaffensoldat]

There will be no white racial suicide through intermarriage, the imagined final result of endless, massive 3rd world immigration and the worsening multicult sickness of the globalist elite. It won't happen that way. The vast majority of people, everywhere and of all races, have always preferred mating and interacting with members of their own race; there is no amount of large-scale indoctrination that can ever suppress a population's natural tendency toward self-preservation through intra-racial marriage.

Of course, there will always be some race mixing; this is inevitable. However, race mixing on a level that dilutes a population's gene pool to the point of biological extinction will never take place, except in the most extraordinary circumstances. For example (and perhaps the only one), widespread race mixing has always occurred when the invaders were predominantly male and had no access to female members of their own race; a classical example is furnished by the hardened, fierce Bronze Age Aryan charioteers and horsemen of the Eurasian steppe, who conquered the swarthy, brown and black Dravidians of the Indian subcontinent and used their women as concubines and slave-girls; the Portuguese and Spanish conquistadors of the Americas, mostly low class males, bred with Indian and negro females because available white women were in short supply.

However, we do not see white women in short supply in either America or Europe, ruling out the possibility of white racial suicide through intermarriage. The "soft" genocide being perpetrated against whites is primarily cultural, demographic and economic in nature.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/10/gracie-...upied-sell-it/

Gracie Mansion could remain unoccupied … sell it!
By Kyle Smith
November 10, 2013 | 5:06am

Commie Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio said this past week that he may not be moving into Gracie Mansion because of the commute it would impose on his orange, burr-headed mongrel son, Dante.

That would make three straight mayors opting not to live at the (yellow) White House of Gotham. So, in the democratic spirit sweeping the city, why do we need Gracie Mansion? Sell it.

Auctioning off this symbol of 1-percenter decadence would pay a lot of teacher salaries and provide a fount of tax revenue going forward. That benefits all of us, not just the swells sipping cocktails at Gracie social occasions that could just as easily be held at Lincoln Center or the Met. (Or maybe Gray’s Papaya, if de Blasio is serious about this People’s Mayor stuff.)

Dante de Blasio, 15, attends Brooklyn Tech HS, not far from his family’s Park Slope home, and isn’t sure he wants to get up early for the privilege of sitting in traffic. His father says the family is debating whether to stay where they are.

Mayor Bloomberg never lived at Gracie, opting to stay at his much more posh East 79th Street townhouse, and, at some point, when his marriage was deteriorating, Rudy Giuliani moved out of G-House, instead living with a pair of friends in a Manhattan apartment.

One of the finest homes in the world is, and has been for many years, unoccupied.

So what’s Gracie worth?

“So unique,” says Sofia Song, head of research at the real-estate site StreetEasy. It’s five bedrooms, waterfront property. “And it’s single-family. Detached. Mayor Bloomberg out of his own pocket, put in $7 million worth of renovations.”

Song’s estimate: $125 to $150 million.

Barbara Corcoran, who founded the real-estate empire that bears her name, disagrees. “My opinion, it would sell for $200 million,” she says, pricing the land alone at $100 million. But “it only has five bedrooms. And anyone who has that kind of money wants six bedrooms, maybe eight.”

Nor is there a tennis court or pool, but with 11 acres, you could squeeze those in. Plus, not many homes have a ballroom, a 214-year history or an internationally recognized brand name. It’s a trophy property like no other.

Then again, “Ed Koch used to wander around naked,” adds Corcoran — not an image you’ll soon get out of your head. Maybe knock off $10 million right there.

And “Rudy Giuliani used to sit in his La-Z-Boy in his pajamas and watch the Yankees,” Corcoran says.

“I know because I walked in on him one night.”

Unlike the White House, Gracie Mansion isn’t much of a tourist attraction and, unlike the White House, it isn’t necessary: We don’t need permanent temporary lodging for a rotating cast of out-of-towners.

Anybody running for mayor of this town is already living in New York. Why uproot mayors from the streets and send them to live in Green Acres? They should have to walk around the garbage mountain at the curb just like the rest of us.

So strike a blow for the 99 percent: Sell Gracie Mansion. Pump those dollars back into the people. And let Dante de Blasio sleep another half an hour.

[Gordon Green]

White mayor, black wife: NYC shatters an image http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white...shatters-image

Originally Posted by JESSE WASHINGTON

Another milestone is passing in America's racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife.

Even in a nation with a biracial president, where interracial marriage is more accepted and common than ever, Bill de Blasio's marriage to Chirlane McCray is remarkable: He is apparently the first white politician in U.S. history elected to a major office with a black spouse by his side.

This simple fact is striking a deep chord in many people as de Blasio prepares to take office on Jan. 1, with McCray playing a major role in his administration.

"It reflects the American values of embracing different races, ethnicities, religions. I think it's just a great symbol," said William Cohen, the former Maine senator and Secretary of Defense, who is married to a black woman.

Cohen was already a senator when he started dating Janet Langhart, a black television journalist. He proposed several times, but she feared that her race would hurt Cohen's political future. They married in 1996, a few weeks after Cohen announced he would not seek a fourth term.

"There has been that fear (of interracial marriage) on the part of politicians. I didn't have it," Cohen said. He noted that a few white politicians have married Latino or Asian women, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose wife is from Mexico, or Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is married to the Taiwan-born former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.

There have been black men in politics who have been married to white women, such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas or former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke. And high-profile women such as South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are from India, and Mia Love, the black mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, are married to white men.

Yet unions of white men and black women have retained a forbidden aura, Cohen said.

"It's black and white, it's slavery and Jim Crow and the fact you can't talk about it," he said. "Black and white has been more of a taboo in the eyes of enough people to be a deterrent."

The taboo is declining, polls show.

In July, a Gallup poll found that 87 percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage — the highest rate ever — compared with 4 percent in 1958. In 2010, more than 15 percent of all new marriages were interracial, according to the Pew Research Center.

Yet statistics also indicate why de Blasio and McCray are such a rarity.

The Gallup poll showed that 14 percent of white people did not approve of intermarriage, compared with 2 percent of black people. And white men are the least likely to marry outside of their race — more than 97 percent of white men are married to white women (82 percent of black men, 65 percent of Hispanics and 48 percent of Asians marry within their own group). The figures are based on 2005 census data analyzed by Michael Rosenfeld, a Stanford University sociologist who studies interracial marriage.

Much has been made of the difficulties black women have in selecting husbands from a pool of eligible black men shrunk by unemployment and incarceration. Among black women age 35 and over, more than 25 percent have never been married, compared with about 7 percent of white women, census figures show. Black men also are twice as likely as black women to marry outside of their race, according to Rosenfeld.

American history and culture, meanwhile, are littered with troubled tales of interracial couples. There have been centuries of debate over President Thomas Jefferson fathering children with his slave Sally Hemings; Sen. Strom Thurmond fought for segregation after having a child with a black housekeeper. In his 1991 film, Spike Lee dubbed interracial sex "Jungle Fever."

All of which helps explain why many saw the matrimonial script being flipped by McCray and de Blasio.

"We're seeing black women loved in a way we have not seen before," said Aja Monet, a poet and New Yorker.

She sees this trend in real life and fiction, from McCray to first lady Michelle Obama to the Olivia Pope character in "Scandal," the hit TV show about a powerful black political operative in a relationship with a white president.

Monet has black, Cuban, Jamaican and Puerto Rican heritage. Her boyfriend is Korean-American. She noted that McCray and her brown children not only helped de Blasio connect with black voters — "their love functioned like a political technology" — but McCray also was a key player in de Blasio's campaign and will be an important part of his Democratic administration.

"It's fair to say the most important voice in my life is Chirlane McCray," de Blasio said after his victory.

As de Blasio and McCray celebrated on election night with their two children, Tiya Miles saw them on television and stopped in her tracks. "I was very moved," she said.

Miles, a black University of Michigan professor, recently wrote a column about being stung by the sight of so many successful black men choosing white wives. It feels like "a personal rejection of the group in which I am a part, of African American women as a whole, who have always been devalued in this society," Miles wrote.

"I think black women sit there with these feelings and they fester, and they take little bits of us over time," Miles said in an interview. "We can deal, we can manage, we keep on moving because that's our job in life, but it still affects us."

So for her, de Blasio and McCray's victory feels like confirmation — especially since McCray does not resemble the type of black woman that mainstream America usually deems beautiful, like Halle Berry or Beyonce.

"A woman who has darker skin and natural hair, and a white man," Miles said. "To see a black woman who is in a long-term relationship with children and her partner, who does not fit that stiff, narrow, idealized image of what a black woman should look like, I think is powerful."

It's more a simple sign of progress for Love, the mayor from Utah and a rising Republican star.

"I tend not to look at race in any issue," she said. However, "the fact that people are able to marry someone outside of their race without feeling as if they are going to have any issues or repercussions is a great thing."

Interracial marriage is not entirely accepted. A recent Cheerios ad featuring an interracial family inspired so many racist remarks that YouTube stopped allowing comments on it. And there remains some black resistance to marrying white people — it's widely accepted that if President Barack Obama had married a white woman, or even a light-skinned black woman, black voters would have caused him problems.

De Blasio was elected in New York, perhaps the most diverse city in America. But he is connecting with people across the country, especially the children of interracial marriages.

"Thank you, New York City, for this gift," wrote Liz Dwyer, whose father is white and mother is black, on her losangelista.com blog.

"It's just the resonance of it. How much it means for families to see a family like them in a visible place," said Ken Tanabe, a New Yorker with a Japanese father and Belgian mother. He is the founder of the Loving Day organization — www.lovingday.org — which organizes annual events celebrating the 1967 Supreme Court decision that struck down laws against interracial marriage.

"Within our community, when someone does well, it feels like an affirmation," he said. "Not on the scale of a Barack Obama, but sort of a local version of that."

Said Cohen, the former defense secretary: "It says a lot about this country. Where we've come from, how far."

"The mayor," he said, "has shattered an image."

[Gordon Green]

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/15/de-blas...es-from-banks/

De Blasio ally open to city seizing foreclosed homes from banks
By Yoav Gonad
November 15, 2013 | 11:46am


Melissa Mark-Viverito


The most left-leaning candidate for City Council speaker says she would consider using eminent domain to seize homes that are in foreclosure from banks – a move that could leave taxpayers subsidizing the mortgages.

Melissa Mark-Viverito (Dyke-Manhattan/Bronx), a close ally of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, said she was open to the proposal when asked about it during a forum in Queens Thursday night featuring five main contenders in the race for speaker.

“The idea of using eminent domain in a reverse way… as a way of seizing those properties from the bank as a way of making those homes affordable for people that want to stay in their communities I think is something we should look at,” said Mark-Viverito, a top contender for the powerful role. “I think it’s innovative, it’s creative … nothing should be off the table.”

A small town in California set off a firestorm of criticism after it began moving toward using eminent domain for hundreds of underwater mortgages.

In August, the Federal Housing Finance Agency warned municipalities against following suit – saying it would restrict federal loans to towns that do.

The other candidates for speaker said they weren’t familiar enough with using that type of eminent domain to weigh in or expressed strong reservations.

“It could be expensive for the city and I also think it’ll be a very long process – and I would question what happens to those properties in the years while you wait for the court proceedings,” said James Vacca (D-Bronx).

Mark Weprin (D-Queens) told The Post he didn’t think such an initiative would work economically.

“It would make it very hard to get loans from banks and it would probably raise interest rates on everybody else,” he said.

Dan Garodnick (D-Manhattan) and Annabel Palma (D-Bronx) were two the other top contenders at the forum, while a sixth candidate – Inez Dickens (D-Manhattan) – arrived at the very end.

The speaker will be selected by the 51 members of the Council, with no input from the public, in January.

It’s a position that currently sets the body’s agenda and dispenses millions of dollars in discretionary funds to each Council member’s district.

[The Bobster]

http://www.vdare.com/articles/a-tale...na-new-orleans

A Tale Of Two Cities: A Great Reversal For de Blasio’s New York And Post-Katrina New Orleans?
By Paul Kersey on November 15, 2013 at 7:19pm

It is the best of times and the worst of times in the Big Apple and the Big Easy. New Orleans is losing its black population, and New York City has chosen to cater to the non-white underclass. The diverging future of these two iconic cities may show the real truth behind success and failure in urban America.

In New York, Mayoral Elect Bill de Blasio, his black, former lesbian, wife, and their mulatto children engaged in an almost tribal celebration after his victory, with something called a “smackdown” dance. [De Blasios celebrate with ‘Smackdown’ dance, by Yoav Gonen, Tara Palmeri and Beth DeFalco, New York Post, November 5, 2013]



The spectacle of the nominally white leader of the world’s greatest city cavorting like an African autocrat on election night was an ominous sign for a city that has only recently emerged from ruin. New York City has turned its back on the policies that saved it. Its people apparently would rather destroy their city than be thought politically incorrect.

In a scene that resembled the Third World rave from the Matrix: Reloaded, de Blasio told his ecstatic supporters that “make no mistake—the people of this city have chosen a progressive path.” However, the real cinematic metaphor is John Carpenter’s apocalyptic Escape from New York, which portrayed the Big Apple as a maximum security prison for violent criminals.

This isn’t far from what happened the last time the city chose a “progressive path.” In 1990, New York City endured a nightmarish 2,245 murders. Although the Washington Post celebrated the return of “liberal governance,” [Bill de Blasio wins mayor’s race in New York, ushering in new era of liberal governance, by Phillip Rucker, November 5, 2013], the truth is we’ve seen this movie before–when New York City inspired such dark visions of urban life as Taxi Driver, Death Wish, and The Warriors.

New York’s collapse was averted by law and order mayors including Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. These mayors waged a war on crime with tactics like “stop and frisk.” Needless to say, this prompted cries of “racism,” although both the perpetrators and the victims of violent crime are overwhelmingly blacks or Hispanics. [NYPD statistics show 96 percent of shooting victims are black or Hispanic and that minority groups represent 89 percent of all murder victims]Stats seem to buttress Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly's justification for controversial stop-and-frisk policy, by Rocco Parascandola , New York Daily News, September 5, 2012]

Unfortunately for New York, this underclass serves as de Blasio’s support base. It’s not going to pretty once the inmates run the prison. We saw what that looks like in New Orleans, especially during Hurricane Katrina. That repressed episode in American history showed that the veneer of Western Civilization can be stripped away in a day.

The German left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung reported at the time, “The fast and safe evacuation was white, leaving behind poor black people, as if time had stood still between the racial unrest of the sixties and today.”

After the black run civic infrastructure collapsed, those “[left] behind” in New Orleans took the opportunity to indulge in racial attacks on whites.

However, since Katrina, New Orleans has seen a dramatic decrease in “Black Power”—even as that ideology has seized power in Gotham. In 2006, a study concluded that as many as “80% of New Orleans blacks may not return.” [Study Says 80% of New Orleans Blacks May Not Return, by James Dao, Washington Post, January 27, 2006]

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert noted that many residents (even some blacks) wanted a less “Chocolate City.” He wrote in 2007,

During the immediate post-Katrina period, there were essentially two visions of a resurgent New Orleans. One, widely decried as racist, saw the new, improved New Orleans as smaller, whiter and more prosperous.

This was openly advocated. Just a few days after the storm, a wealthy member of the city’s power elite, James Reiss, told The Wall Street Journal: “Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically.”

[Descending to New Depths, January 15, 2007]

This is largely a reaction to black crime. An examination of 200 criminal homicides in New Orleans from 2009 to 2010 showed that over 91% of the victims were black and over 97% of the known first offenders were black. [Most murder victims in big cities have criminal record: Up to 91% arrested before becoming target of violence, by Michael Thompson, WND, March 4, 2013]:

The black violence in New Orleans was so intense that there were calls for the National Guard to patrol in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2012.

Of course, this is precisely why some might see opportunity in the new, whiter New Orleans. George W. Bush’s director of HUD, Alphonso Jackson, caused a firestorm when he said: "New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again." [HUD boss says New Orleans “not going to be as black,” by Joel Havemann, The Seattle Times, October 1, 2005]

The new New Orleans is capitalizing on this with an emphasis on tourism. In 2012, the city drew a record $6 billion in tourism.

But what is still holding the city back is its reputation for crime. Mayor Landrieu has put money behind the NOLA FOR LIFE campaign to deal with the problem. Despite the name, it’s not about abortion – instead, the program specifically singles out the black population as violent.

"Bright young lives are being snuffed out on New Orleans' streets daily," said [Spike] Lee, the award-winning director of "When the Levees Broke." "Our young black men are killing each other like it's a self-imposed genocide. It is our job, our responsibility to make them understand the value of their lives and help them to achieve their greatest potential."

The campaign, called "Flip the Script," focuses on "changing the attitudes of and about young black men," the mayor said. It is part of Landrieu's "Nola For Life" initiative to halt the city's murder rate, a rate 10 times the national average with a killing every two days on average.

"Nola, we have a problem," reads the homepage of the campaign's website, nolaforlife.org.

[Spike Lee, Mayor Mitch Landrieu unveil provocative anti-murder campaign, $2 million fund, by Clarie Galofaro, New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 2, 2012]

Actually, black New Orleans has a problem. Without a large black presence in NOLA, the city would have a crime-rate roughly comparable with that of Key West, Florida.

However, that problem is less severe than it was before—and New Orleans tourism is growing as a result.

Though New York City draws almost 10 times the tourist dollars, the de Blasio regime will put New York’s economy to the test. If crime rises, the Big Apple’s image as family-friendly metropolis will collapse.

You can bet the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans will be watching what happens closely, knowing that New York’s tourist dollars will be up for grabs.

Dr. Kevin Unter's 2009 study of the New Orleans Police Department, Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans states plainly that

The only variable that shows some explanatory power is the percentage of the black population in New Orleans - the models suggest that crime will increase as the percentage of the black population in New Orleans increases.

It follows that a smaller black population means that crime will decrease, allowing New Orleans to acquire tourism revenue. Meanwhile, as de Blasio prepares to reverse the accomplishments of Rudolph Giuliani, we can expect to see a corresponding rise in crime – and a return to the Bad Old Days of David Dinkins’s New York City.

We may be on the verge of a great reversal. In 10 years, reporters may be writing about the urban blight of New York City – compared to the safe, prosperous city of New Orleans.

[John from Canada]

Originally Posted by The Bobster

Paul Adler (left) stands behind Hillary Clinton at a 2000 campaign event.

Help find Walldo, the stalker from the whining wall.

[Fabrizio]

[Robert Ransdell]

I am glad the creep won, how many White people were provoked to laughter and/or revulsion at the sight of that half-chimp son of his with the positively ridiculous hair? More than even we would assume, this guy is a visual aid as to how disgusting the race mixing and miscegenation is, it is indeed something that at first makes you laugh but then makes you sick.

Seeing as the man is a leftist and will champion causes most decent Whites will find almost as repulsive as a family portrait of that mess he calls a family he will surely be someone they come to oppose and despise, we just need to try to get these people to get a backbone when it comes to race.

Surely many out there who would call themselves "conservative" could share a laugh at that patently ridiculous nappy headed son of his - we just need to get them to point while they laugh.