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Smarmie Doofus

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Fri Aug 9, 2013, 06:15 PM Aug 2013

THE NATION Endorses Bill de Blasio for mayor of NYC.

>>>No doubt there will be tremendous challenges should de Blasio become mayor. New York is a fractured and fractious city, and he will almost certainly face strong headwinds from a number of quarters, the city’s powerful Wall Street and real estate interests among them. Yet with the help of a newly minted City Council—one that is expected to emerge from this year’s election a more progressive body thanks to the efforts of groups like the Progressive Caucus—a Mayor de Blasio might have a real chance to begin stitching the city’s tattered social contract back together. And for the first time in a long time, New York might become a national model not of flagrant inequality but of forward-thinking efforts to create true opportunity for all its residents.>>>>

The rest:http://www.thenation.com/article/175637/bill-de-blasio-mayor?rel=emailnyc#axzz2bVpehsWh

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