Tag Archives: Michael Bloomberg

Yesterday firebrand Rep. Anthony Weiner made it all but official that he intends to run for mayor of New York City in 2013. Weiner ran for mayor in 2009 but dropped out early after Michael Bloomberg announced his intent to pursue a third term. “I have a passing interest in the management of New York,” Weiner said in one of …

According to City Hall News, activists plan to ask NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lobby state Senate Republicans on marriage equality. Michael Bloomberg, who favors marriage equality, has promised advocates to do anything in his power to help push the issue. And those close to the planning say they plan on asking Bloomberg to appeal directly to fence-sitting Senate Republicans, …

Parks, beaches, Times Square….

New York City’s always controversial Department of Public Health has added soft drinks to their library of attack ads. Previous gruesome ads about the dangers of smoking and HIV have caused some activists to loudly object that “scare tactics” turn people off to the underlying necessary message. At least this one doesn’t show amputated fingers or anal cancer.

Arizona shooting hero Daniel Hernandez hustled up from last night’s State Of The Union address to join NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial gun control campaign. “It is my hope that President [Barack] Obama and Congress will work together right away to reform our gun background check system so that all records of dangerous people are in the system and all …

Lawmakers are refloating a plan to charge drivers up to $10 if they want to drive south of 60th Street in Manhattan on weekdays. Bloomberg test-drove the idea back in 2008 to little support, but with the city budget in the shape it presently is, this time the idea may get some traction. Driver fees could also reverse some of …

In his just-released It Gets Better video, Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells gay kids, “New York City wants you.” Um, something something Ali Forney Center funding cuts, cough cough. UPDATE: Ali Forney Center executive director Carl Siciliano responds. “Two days after slashing support to homeless youth programs in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has the gall to release a video telling …

Michael K. Lavers reports at EDGE: Juan Valdez literally remains out in the cold. The 21-year-old from Orlando, Florida, has been homeless since he arrived in New York City eight months ago. Valdez’s parents kicked him out of their home. And he told EDGE he now sleeps with what he described as “a whole bunch of ex-convicts” looking for sex. …

Last week two hotly contested seats in the New York Senate were won by Republicans, giving the GOP a slight edge in the chamber and effectively dousing any hope of marriage equality for years to come. Yesterday the NY Daily News revealed that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated almost $1M to help make that happen. Which is strange because he …

Wal-Mart’s years-long battle to gain a foothold in New York City has been ramped up a notch with their hiring of Mayor Bloomberg’s former campaign manager, who will battle unions and community groups before the City Council next month. Steven Restivo, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., told The New York Times in its online edition Sunday …

Nine people were arrested this morning outside of a breakfast meeting hosted by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a protest about the exclusion of indigent AIDS patients from a state housing program that caps the rent of ill people on public assistance at 30% of their income. More photos from the protest are here. Video is here. At Bloomberg’s urging, …

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that it’s time to go back to the old two-term limit. In 2008 Bloomberg backed changing the law which enabled his current third term. The New York Times blasts: It was the latest installment in the story of Mr. Bloomberg’s ever-evolving relationship with term limits. An outspoken supporter of two terms, he once called Council …

“Mr. Mayor, will you please make up your mind? Last week, Mayor Bloomberg released a video wherein he stated his support for marriage equality ‘Because government shouldn’t tell you who to love or who to marry’. Today, Mayor Bloomberg sought permission from the Federal Government to prohibit New York food stamp recipients from using their food stamps to purchase soda …

Today NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce a complete ban on smoking in city parks and on city beaches. After months of considering the issue, Mayor Bloomberg will today announce that the city will institute a smoking ban in parks and on beaches, sources said. The new ban requires City Council approval, which seems assured since the mayor will be …

New York City’s parks are getting free wifi. Sort of. Cable giants Time Warner and Cablevision have agreed to spend $10 million to provide WiFi service in 32 parks as part of a deal in which the city agreed to give a 10-year renewal of the companies’ lucrative cable-television franchises. Under that deal, which city officials announced Tuesday after two …

In a new low for a movement littered with new lows, Tea Party Express founder Mark Williams has labeled Michael Bloomberg and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer as “Judenrats” for their support of Cordoba House. From Williams’ blog: How many times do I have to tell you…. the Ground Zero Mosque is a chest-beating pile of puke from the bellies …

“I said to David Paterson, I said, ‘You know, get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun. If there’s ever a great video it’s you standing in the middle of the New York State Thruway saying you know read my lips, the law of the land is this and we’re going to enforce the law.'” – Michael Bloomberg, telling Gov. …

Over 40 groups will protest tomorrow at the office of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg over massive cuts to the city’s HIV/AIDS budget. Via press release: What: Protest against Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed FY 2010-2011 budget cuts, followed by a press conference on City Hall stepsWho: 200 protestors from 40 diverse groups, including Housing Works, the People’s Budget Coalition, the New York …

Here’s a slideshow from today’s LGBT-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Sunnyside, Queens. It was a gorgeous day, almost t-shirt weather. Lots of well known folks and groups attended, from Mayor Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (mine!) to activists Ann Northrop, Brandon Brock and the folks at Marriage Equality New York. (That’s them in the green t-shirts towards …