New York Civil Rights Commission on Bloomberg: high handed, arrogant, snobbish & clueless

[Truth2Tell]

Bloomberg Gets a "C"--For "Clueless" On Civil Rights
February 24, 2003

http://www.nycivilrights.org/pov/position_item.jsp?pov_id=37

The New York Civil Rights Coalition has issued a report highly critical of Mayor Bloomberg's record to date on race relations and civil rights. The New York Civil Rights Coalition charges that Mayor Bloomberg has squandered the modest vote of confidence he received from minority voters because his policies in the field of race relations and civil rights have not been visionary or compassionate. Using such harsh words as "high handed", "arrogant", "snobbish", and "clueless", the report depicts Mayor Bloomberg as so enamored with himself and ostentatious with his wealth that he displays utter contempt for the poor.

some excerpts:

...Mayor Bloomberg displays utter disdain for dissenters in government, threatening to fire any government employees, as lowly as janitors, who leak information to the media...

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Shockingly, the Bloomberg Administration has gone to court seeking to overturn limited civil rights protections for civilians against police spying on their lawful political activities. NYPD wants more leeway to spy on civil rights and religious groups, and on dissidents to record their images and words, listen in on their strategy, and to, yes, compile dossiers, if not an enemy's list of the activists who've broken no laws...

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...The harshest criticism of Bloomberg is aimed at his attitude toward the poor and powerless, such as the policy of removal of the homeless who are eyesores to the rich and snooty. official threats to place the children of into foster care is not a program of compassion, it amounts to a declaration of war on the poor rather than a declaration of war on poverty...

Edit to add: And this is from PRE GOP convention!!!!!

[OHdem10]

1. Inteesting--Al Sharpton was on Hardball praising

Bloomberg

[AndreaCG]

2. Sharpton's 2004 presidential campaign was largely financed by Republicans

Enough said.