CRYBABY BLOOMBERG >>>

[Stephanie]

On NPR this morning they played a clip of Bloomberg literally CRYING about not getting the state to subsidize his now-doomed Jets football stadium. Richie Rich the autocratic bully was denied a toy he really, really wanted and he went before the press and WEPT over it. Now it's fine for men, even politicians, to cry, but in this instance it reveals what a childish, selfish, narcissist M. Bloomberg is. Nobody wanted this stadium but him.

Bloomberg sure wasn't crying when he jailed thousands of New Yorkers in a BUS DEPOT during the RNC. Here's the flippant statement he made then, in response to complaints of false arrests and inhumane conditions:

"It's not Club Med, don't make any mistake about it, and it's not supposed to be Club Med," he said last week. "And I don't think there's anyone in the city that wants to make it Club Med. Which I used to go to all the time and I always found great! This is not supposed to be great."
http://www.refuseandresist.org/article-print.php?aid=1511

Who's crying now, MIKEY?

You can listen to Mike's tears at the NPR link below - still looking for pix and video links.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4683302
Stadium Ruling a Blow to New York's Olympic Bid

Morning Edition, June 7, 2005 · A New York state board rejects a proposed stadium on Manhattan's West Side, which supporters believe severely weakens the city's chances of hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics. Andrea Bernstein of NPR station WNYC says the sports facility was to serve as the centerpiece of New York's Olympic bid.

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http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/bronx/ny-ststad0607,0,6520305.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-bronx
Lawmakers say no to stadium

<snip> While Pataki supported the stadium plan, Bloomberg had made it the signature piece of his legacy, the central pillar of a plan to turn the far West Side into a new commercial and residential real estate frontier. The stadium would also double as home to the 2012 Olympics if the city won its bid.

A bitterly disappointed mayor, his voice breaking with emotion at times, repeatedly used the past tense about the stadium during a news conference at a Brooklyn pier Monday.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/316682p-270809c.html
West Side glory
Silver the dreamer runs out schemers
Mike Lupica

<snip>This is what the Assembly Speaker for the state of New York, Sheldon Silver, said yesterday when he spoke for the city of New York. This is what Silver said when he spoke for the city and against a football stadium for the New Jersey Jets football team on the West Side of Manhattan, what would have been the most expensive sports stadium ever built.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/316553p-270818c.html
It was one vote he couldn't buy
Juan Gonzalez

<snip>Mayor Bloomberg's grandiose plans for a $2.2 billion West Side Stadium for the Jets collapsed yesterday in a flaming Olympic defeat.

They fell apart mostly because Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki completely underestimated the guts and determination of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who represents lower Manhattan.

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http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/bronx/ny-sppow074294340jun07,0,6047791.column?coll=nyc-manheadlines-bronx
No West Side stadium? Fine
Shaun Powell

<snip>But today is special because New Yorkers no longer must worry about buying something they don't need, didn't ask for and wouldn't belong to them. There's no fear of giving $600 million of your tax money to the rich boys' club so they can put cherry wood paneling inside a fancy club restaurant or install 42-inch high-def flat-screen TVs in their luxury suites.

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[NYCGirl]

1. As a Manhattan resident, albeit a downtown girl, far away from the upper

west side, where the stadium would reside, I couldn't be happier that this monstrosity seems to be defeated.

[Stephanie]

2. It's not on the Upper West Side, it's in the thirties

Just south of the Javits Center, along 11th Ave.

And I couldn't be more delighted.

[NYCGirl]

7. Sorry, brain fart. But I'm still happy it's been defeated.

Edited to add: And I'll be pleased with the Olympics some other place...did you see what they did with the Union Square Clock? Not that it was a great beauty before, but this sucks!

[musette_sf]

4. agreed

I no longer live in NYC, but it was obvious that this was a bad idea from the start. Quality of life would be seriously, negatively, affected by this proposed monstrosity.

[BurtWorm]

3. Is that Pataki crying over the stadium too?

What the fuck is wrong with those idiots?

[Stephanie]

5. Spoiled little rich boys - can't take NO for an answer

Just like George Bush, they're attitude is "who cares what you think?" They want what they want and are incredulous when they don't get it.

[kodi]

24. honey, you hit the nail on the head, its just a toy to them

.

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Let's hope Bloomberg has lots more to cry about...

...from now until the end of his one and only term.

[Stephanie]

9. Hear Hear!

I'm so sick of him ramming his little pet party schemes down our throats and handing us the bill.

[KurtNYC]

8. In spite of the fact that polls showed NYers didn't want it

Bloomberg spent over $25 million on ads to promote the Olympic bid not to IOC selection commitee members but to NYers who don't want it! He attempted to brainwash us with our own money (and this is a guy who sepnt $100 per vote to get elected).

The weirder thing is that not one of his rivals is positioned to take advantage of Bloomberg's failure.

The papers keep talking about losing the Olympics like it is a BAD thing. The $2.4 billion stadium looks cheap compared to the $12 billion they would spend on velodromes and the like. Atlanta and Montreal are still paying for their hosting privileges and Montreal has a huge empty stadium to show for it.



Empty, falling down stadium anyone?

[marmar]

11. But the view...

of beautiful Montreal is nice from that tower at the top of the stadium, tho.

[Crankie Avalon]

14. HAH! Now, that's just what Manhattan needs...

...a gigantic patch of underused suburban sprawl.

I mean, it's not like space for residential structures that regular people can live in is scarce here, or anything.

[Stephanie]

15. I am trying to find that Frank Rich column from last week about this

He summed it up perfectly.

*edit* here it is:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-22.htm

[truth_is_extreme]

10. if it's bad for Bloomberg

it's GOT to be good for New York City.

[Hand]

12. Bob Herbert's wearing a big shit-eating grin right now...

...and he well deserves the pleasure. (He's the NYT columnist who's been raising holy hell about this misbegotten giveaway since it first saw the light of day.) have a :beer: on me, Bob! :toast:

[Stephanie]

13. Love him!

Do you think it's definitely dead?

[Hand]

23. I think you'd know better than I...

...since you live there and I don't. But it certainly seems to be over with, and I'm glad. Everything I read of it made it sound like a gigantic boondoggle and taxpayer rip-off--akin to Chimpy's little Texas rangers scam.

:hi:

[Crankie Avalon]

16. Crybaby Bloomberg has the "Crybaby Blues"...

Just a poor li'l rich boy in the city
Clawing at the government tittie--
Crybaby Bloomberg, that's me.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
BWAAAAA BWAAAAA BWAAAA
Oh, woe is me.

My favorite table at the restaurant not empty?
Makes me go wobbly and unsteady--
BOOHOO and "Remove them, security!"

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
BWAAAAA BWAAAAA BWAAAA
Oh, woe is me.

Crying all over the floor
My stadium ain't no more
Boondoggle gimme gimme gimme!!!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
BWAAAAA BWAAAAA BWAAAA
Oh, woe is me, woe is me, woe is me.

[Stephanie]

18. Bloomberg should just build his own damn stadium

Somewhere else. He can afford it.

Thanks for the tune!

[Me.]

17. I Couldn't Believe It Failed

It so seemed like the fix was in whether we wanted it or not. I could only envision a traffic nightmare beyond all proportion here on the west side, even if it's in the 30's, the back-up goes all the way up. Millions of more cars driving in each year. We already have one albatross in the javits center (have you ever tried to get there if you're not on a hotel courtesy bus?). I also couldn't believe Bloomie would be so inept as he was when he blew off Queens, saying in a shrill voice, "no one is going to spend a billion dollars to build a stadium in Queens".

[Stephanie]

19. takes one to know one

re: Queens

[Chovexani]

21. The Mets?

Aren't the Mets planning to build a new stadium across the way from the current Shea, with private funds? I could have sworn I read that somewhere a while ago. Maybe I'm confusing it with the Yankees' plan.

I'm for the stadium (just not in that spot...I mean, WTF?), and the Olympics coming to NY in general, but this entire process stank so badly that I couldn't get behind it. Bloomie & the Jets vs. Cablevision is like the lesser of two weasels. And no one seems to care about the affordable housing crisis. I hadn't been in the East Village since I stopped working there a few years back, so I was gobsmacked by that ugly glass thingie they put up on Astor Place. Even more gobsmacked by the price...apartments starting at 1.2 mil?! Now they are bringing these monstrosities to Brooklyn. As if there is a shortage of luxury condos here. :eyes:

I'm 24 years old, I have lived in Brooklyn all my life, and to be quite honest I am damn sick and tired of all the politicians here. I hate Mayor Domino and voted against him the first time, but the Dems here get on my damn nerves. I'm tired of the same old people talking the same old BS. We desperately need some new blood in this town. I mean, I'm going to vote for C. Virginia Fields in the primary most likely but no way is a black woman going to be mayor in this town, maybe my kids will see it if I have any...so in the general election, then what? I like what the Working Families Party is doing and I have cut them some checks, we need more people like that around here.

[Me.]

22. Exactly!

Millions go to Queens for the Met and the Bronx for the Yankees every year. As for the prices, I'm shocked, appalled and dismayed, the gold rush is on and has been for years now. And yet, I'm seeing vacancies all over the place, both residential and business. So what's that about? I hear that all those condos that Trump built on the west side aren't filling up, yet they want to build more. The new Time Warner bldg. still has the feel of a semi-ghost town.

I didn't care about any of the parties in this deal. All I felt was that the taxpayers would be on the losing end of it. And I sorely resented the slick sales job MB and Doctorol were doing on all of us. Love to know the truth, the what, and why of it all. This whole thing had such a wrong feel to it.

I wish he'd go but sadly the dems are either lackluster or hapless.

[Stephanie]

25. Take a look at Anthony Weiner for mayor

I like everything that comes out of his mouth. He's looking good to me so far.

[Rex]

20. Fuck that rich asshole

Poor baby didn't get his way...good! I hope he chokes on the bitterness of failure!