Weiner for mayor?

Weiner didn't appear at the recent Rent Stabilization board hearing.

How is he going to give people the unrealistic belief that he can fulfill wishes, if he does not make the effort to impersonate a genie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/nyregion/at-hearing-quinn-and-de-blasio-advocate-rent-freeze.html?ref=nyregion&_r=2&;

Lots of photos of the candidates being civil to each other:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayoral-marathon-candidates-accepting-non-stop-requests-speak-forums-article-1.1380099

We may want to save these, because as we get closer to the primary, we are likely to get sniping.

Pardon the formatting...

Join the

Our City, Our Homes

NYC Mayoral Forum on Affordable Neighborhoods

TONIGHT - Tuesday, June 25, 2013

7:00pm to 9:00pm - Doors open at 6:30pm

Participating candidates:

Bill deBlasio, Adolfo Carrion, John Liu,

William Thompson Jr. & Anthony Weiner

Moderator: Azi Paybarah - Capital New York

CALVARY / ST. GEORGE'S - 4 Rutherford Place.

Corner of East 16th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues

New York City needs a new and expansive housing vision that includes the

needs of all. Join the Our City, Our Homes Mayoral forum to learn about each

of the mayoral candidates' Affordable Housing plans and how they will

addresses four key issues:

? Overhaul of the Code Enforcement System

? Commitment to a Real Affordability Development Policy and

Guaranteed Inclusionary Zoning

? Improvement and Preservation of the Public Housing Stock in NYC

? Expanding Resources to Promote Homeownership Opportunities and Prevent

Foreclosure

ANHD is a member of Our City, Our Homes, a broad coalition of neighborhood

and citywide organizations working together to advance a progressive housing

vision in 2013 and beyond.

Click here to download

ANHD's community-by-community list of at-risk affordable housing

The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD) founded in

1974 is a

501(c)(3) consortium of 93 neighborhood-based non-profit affordable groups

in all five boroughs.

ANHD provides training, capacity-building assistance, strategic research,

and high-impact policy advocacy for the community development movement. In

the past decade alone, ANHD has worked

with our members to leverage $1.3 billion in new public funds for affordable

housing and won

policy change that has preserved thousands of affordable apartments.

Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD)

50 Broad Street, Suite 1125, New York, New York 10004

212-747-1117 / www.anhd.org

I haven't found the time or energy to research any of these people much (besides Quinn and Weiner). Does anyone have enough of a understanding on the various characters to give a cliffs notes version of their policies and standings on issues?

Yeah, Eliot Spitzer - see what happens when we encourage these people? As if him being a publicity hound, grating asshole and sleazy hypocrite weren't enough to kill this candidacy in the crib, how about the fact that there is not one G.D. reason to think he is qualified to be the comptroller of a large organization! Does he have an accounting background? No. Successful financier? Nope. Work his way up through similar jobs in the government? Nuh-uh. He might be able talk his way past HR, but any hiring manager in the private sector would tell him that he is, "a bad fit for the role". And yet...and yet...

I have formulated a theory that most voters in New York City do not know what a comptroller is or what one does.

NY Mag

booklaw said:

Comptroller... Isn't it what you use to change channels on the tv?

I thought it was some one that trolls for comps

Exactly, I guess. It doesn't even matter if the guy can do the job or people know what the job is. It's just, "Hur dur Spitzer I remember him!" Or were we being sarcastic? Because I don't think a lot of people are...

I miss the old days of Brooklynian, back when we had some Democratic stalwarts who would insist that political party was different.

Spitzer tops Democratic rival Scott Stringer in the city comptroller's race by a commanding 48-33 percent among registered Democrats, while Weiner is about even with his closest rival Christine Quinn — 25 percent to 22 percent — in the crowded Democratic mayoral field, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.

Meanwhile, candidates like Thompson are struggling to get any media coverage.

They can't complete with the easy press that Weiner and Quinn generate. Once again, this is becoming a race that has little to do with the issues that most effect this city.

I do.

...while sexting isn't especially related to one's qualifications, the race is looking like Quinn has a solid footing.