Bloomberg is a Crooked Politician

Michael Bloomberg, in his Putin-esque lust for power, is playing to the fears of citizens by manipulating the people with the ludicrous claim that he must remain mayor because of the current crisis on Wall Street. However, ruthless businessmen like himself are the reason why Wall Street and our economy are in peril. We've heard such claims before about Giuliani, yet we survived without him. We can survive without Bloomberg. Comptroller William Thompson
would be better suited to be mayor.

Bloomberg has proven that he cannot be trusted. Look at how his schools chancellor, Joel Klein, has cut the school budget under Bloomberg only a month and a half into the school year. Teachers and paraprofessionals are being excessed, other school personnel are being layed off, funding for the classrooms has been drastically cut, yet the mayor is allowing Klein to hire fourteen management personnel at over $170,000 each and to hire one of Bloomberg's business world cronies, George Raab III, as the school system's new chief financial officer. Raab is the genius who drove Bear Sterns into the ground.

In order to overturn term limits, Bloomberg has bribed several city council members a total of $3.1 million to overturn term limits. Those bribed from the mayors once secret slush fund are Simcha Felder, James Vacca, Domenic Recchia, Helen Sears, Erik Dilan and Peter Vallone Jr. According to the New York Post, Sears was appointed to the Government Operations committee in May, replacing term-extension foe Councilman Joe Addabo Jr. In June, Felder abandoned his city comptroller aspirations - which, if limits are extended, may have put him in a tough race against incumbent Bill Thompson. The mayor then endorsed Felder for a state Senate run.

The bribes and the political maneuvers are just one more example of how Mayor Bloomberg is against the will of the people and all for himself. Term limits must be kept. That is the will of the people.