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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bloomberg Blames 'Partisan Elections' For Alleged Election-Rigging Plot
2013-04-04
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Following a series of arrests including State. Sen. Malcolm Smith Tuesday morning over an alleged plot to fix the upcoming New York City mayoral race, Mayor Michael Nanny Bloomberg offered his theory on the scheme.

Bloomberg said he believes the opportunity for the kind of corruption alleged against the politicians arose because political parties are part and parcel of New York City's elections.

"All of this comes out of the fact that we have partisan elections when cities aren't partisan. And what happens is, only people that can go through whatever the majority party is, whether it's Democrat here or Republican someplace else -- they're the only people that really can face the voters and have any meaningful chance," Bloomberg told news hounds including WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb.
Posted by:Fred

#2  After this scum whore changed election laws to get himself another term.
Posted by: newc   2013-04-04 13:02  

#1  The bid was a Democratic state senator conspiring with Republican power brokers to take the Republican/Fusion nomination for the mayoral race. For those of you who don't follow NYC politics, the way that a city with something like a 75-20 partisan split in favor of the Democrats keeps electing nominal Republican mayors in election after election - including, in the last century and change, Strong, Mitchel, La Guardia, Lindsay, Giuliani, Bloomberg - is by fusion tickets, pulling together "reform" Democrats to make up a plurality with the Republican rump.

City mayoral politics are all *about* this sort of thing, although usually it's the good-government types on both sides making a fusion, not the corrupt machine types. And that's where this is a little out of the ordinary. Probably driven by the complete and utter disappearance of anything like the old Tammany Hall apparatus, the easy-money boys are floating around everywhere, there's no magnet to draw them into the Democratic party mainstream.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2013-04-04 11:47  

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