New York City voters beware!
For anyone who still has a grasp on reality in NY/NYC you may want to share this around before the general election. If you think things were bad under Bloomberg wait until you see what de Blasio has planned for you. Do yourselves a favor, give yourselves a break and vote for Joe Lhota. Otherwise you will be dreaming of the days when you had some progressive wanting to take away sugary drinks and banning trans fats!
Beck cites the NY Times reporting de Blasio:
– had an “admiration for Nicaraguan revolutionaries..” (Sandinistas)
– wants to forge an alliance with Islam and the US “Islam would soon be a dominant force politics”
– believes in the European socialist democratic model “mix of admiration for the European social democratic movements, Mr Roosevelt’s New Deal and liberation theology”
– believes the US is rotten to the core “the government should be doing a lot more to help for low-income workers and maintain higher tax rates”
We all know what is going to happen since this guy has a progressive money machine behind him but at least a fw of us tried to get the warning out.
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A Mayoral Hopeful Now, de Blasio Was Once a Young Leftist
By Javier C. Hernandez | NYT
The scruffy young man who arrived in Nicaragua in 1988 stood out.
He was tall and sometimes goofy, known for his ability to mimic a goose’s honk. He spoke in long, meandering paragraphs, musing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Karl Marx and Bob Marley. He took painstaking notes on encounters with farmers, doctors and revolutionary fighters.
Bill de Blasio, then 26, went to Nicaragua to help distribute food and medicine in the middle of a war between left and right. But he returned with something else entirely: a vision of the possibilities of an unfettered leftist government.
As he seeks to become the next mayor of New York City, Mr. de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, has spoken only occasionally about his time as a fresh-faced idealist who opposed foreign wars, missile defense systems and apartheid in the late 1980s and early 1990s. References to his early activism have been omitted from his campaign Web site.
But a review of hundreds of pages of records and more than two dozen interviews suggest his time as a young activist was more influential in shaping his ideology than previously known, and far more political than typical humanitarian work.
Mr. de Blasio, who studied Latin American politics at Columbia and was conversational in Spanish, grew to be an admirer of Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista party, thrusting himself into one of the most polarizing issues in American politics at the time. The Reagan administration denounced the Sandinistas as tyrannical and Communist, while their liberal backers argued that after years of dictatorship, they were building a free society with broad access to education, land and health care…more