[DEBATES: The debate over debates mounted. Bloomberg said at City Hall:] I think two debates are fine for this cycle. ... We owe it to people all over the city to debate in all five boroughs and on specific topics. |
[Ferrer campaign aides denied that the party organization, if not its brightest lights, deserted the campaign, as some have asserted.] If that happened, we certainly didn't feel it, ... We felt a lot of energy. People make assumptions about party, but a mayor's race is different. It's above party. It's about personality. |
a new city is rising. |
a sigh of relief that we're not going to put the voters and our staff through something that nobody seemed to want. |
After the pundits, the pollsters, the press . . . it is appropriately in the hands of the people, so let them decide. |
After you fought so hard for Amadou Diallo, after you went to jail for Amadou Diallo, how can you then turn around and say that you think it was justified? |
And I'll be the first, ... to commend Mayor Bloomberg for not only recognizing that, but for making them one strong New York that leaves no one behind. |
And you know what - You could do this city a big favor sometime by putting your check book away. |
come back down to reality-land. |
Don't depend on a $100 million campaign, ... Come on out and go mano a mano with me. |
Earlier this week, Mike Bloomberg discovered there was a 'crisis of affordability' in New York. Today, he's discovered that there's a dropout crisis, |
Excuse me a second. You gave him money, Mike. And you can't have it both ways. |
Fasten your seat belts. The party is unified. |
For too many New Yorkers, somebody pulled out the treads in the ladder, somebody closed the door and let it slam behind 'em, somebody said, 'I got mine and you go figure out a way to get yours,' |
forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November. |