NYC Mayoral Election -- First Major Gay Candidate Christine Quinn Gets Clobbered

[palemale]

We had our primary election yesterday in NYC and City Council Speaker and first lesbian candidate for Mayor Christine Quinn lost bad. Only a couple of months ago, she was considered a shoo-in. She hitched her wagon to Mayor Bloomberg and paid dearly for it. Public Advocate Bill De Blasio clobbered her, and the other candidates. Good-bye Carlos Danger!

De Blasio is the most progressive of the candidates. He won all demographics. He won with women and LGBT voters, even though Quinn is a lesbian. He won black voters, even though another candidate, Bill Thompson, is black. He beat Quinn badly in her own district, which includes Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen.

Initial counts had De Blasio winning 40.2% of the vote. There will be a recount because a candidate who wins 40% of the vote avoids a run-off.

All in all, it was an exciting evening for progressives in NYC.

 

[rareboy]

Well done.

I'm assuming that De Blasio is a pro-subway kitten candidate?

 

[Rolyo85]

He is. While the one who won the Republican primaries is anti-subway kitten. Way of the world.

 

[darden]

I'm glad he lost in a landslide, but I'll miss having Anthony Weiner to kick around.

 

[Jack Springer]

He is. While the one who won the Republican primaries is anti-subway kitten. Way of the world.

I thought you said today is not a day to be political.

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Two flakey democrats got their butts kicked -- a big surprise.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Quinn played the Bloomberg card a little too heavy and not speaking out against the closing of ST Vincent's Hospital was the nail in her political coffin--the hospital was in her district and people blame her in large part for the closing---that's why she lost it---and Di Blassio has a great looking family and is a very decent man.

 

[palemale]

Quinn played the Bloomberg card a little too heavy and not speaking out against the closing of ST Vincent's Hospital was the nail in her political coffin--the hospital was in her district and people blame her in large part for the closing---that's why she lost it---and Di Blassio has a great looking family and is a very decent man.

Overturning term limits legislatively so Bloomberg, and herself, was what sealed her fate. It was a whole lot of things, though. Allowing NYU to go ahead with plans to put giant buildings in the middle of Greenwich Village hurt her. She lost big in all of the precincts around Washington Square Park. Bloomberg's last interview in the New Yorker didn't help.

 

[Ninja108]

There were a lot of issues surronding her,the biggest one being simply viewed her as a fourth term of bloomberg.
I'll also be honest,she didn't earn any brownie points in my book(granted I can't vote in NYC) by having people say we should vote for her solely because she's lesbian and a woman.
That is the same theory Republicans use in trotting out miniority and female candidates and it doesn't stick.
It's about policy for Democrats,not who you love or the color of your skin or your gender.

 

[eastofeden]

There were a lot of issues surronding her,the biggest one being simply viewed her as a fourth term of bloomberg.
I'll also be honest,she didn't earn any brownie points in my book(granted I can't vote in NYC) by having people say we should vote for her solely because she's lesbian and a woman.
That is the same theory Republicans use in trotting out miniority and female candidates and it doesn't stick.
It's about policy for Democrats,not who you love or the color of your skin or your gender.

...and it is the same for Liberals...policy trumps everything. I would have voted for De Blasio too. The best person for the job won.

 

[Ninja108]

...and it is the same for Liberals...policy trumps everything. I would have voted for De Blasio too. The best person for the job won.

He did indeed in my option.