Look- I’ll confess. I’m pretty much a liberal democrat. I voted for Obama and don’t regret it. But I’m probably going to vote for Lhota. I don’t think DiBlasio is all that bad, but on the local level, his policies make no sense. The city has done great under Giuliani and Bloomberg. Under Dinkins and before, not so much. DiBlasio ran a primary campaign based on pie in the sky type of things that a local mayor has little to do with- ending income inequality. Sure, that’s a serious problem, but it is just a symptom of the national economy. Keeping hospitals open? Sure, I’d like to keep hospitals open, but the mayor doesn’t have a magic wand where a hospital that consistently loses money can stay open. And the most important thing in the city is to keep crime low. If crime ticks up, lots and lots of people leave and the city’s tax base disappears and it just becomes awful to live here. I remember how it was back in the day. For some reason, some new yorkers look back on the days of graffiti and crime fondly, but it was not good.
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