The news media's infatuation with input from "real people" reached new heights — or depths — Thursday evening during a Chicago mayoral forum when viewer messages racing across the TV screen included this apparently unedited pearl from one Casey Kerchner: "Give the punks shooting lessons.
Betsy Gotbaum, the city's public advocate and also a possible mayoral candidate, said Mr. Gifford's message was one that Mayor Bloomberg should be making.
During his mayoral campaign, Michael R. Bloomberg's law enforcement message, such that it was, centered on a basic theme: Rudolph W. Giuliani had put the lid on crime, and if elected, Mr. Bloomberg would try to keep it there.
During his first mayoral campaign, O'Malley focused on a message of reducing crime.
Throughout the day, other regular mayoral critics showered City Hall with calls, messages and news releases expressing sympathy for Mr. Giuliani.
Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, said at a mayoral forum, "We need to send a message to every young man of color that they are beloved, they are valuable, they are our future.
And now we're talking about a $10,000 budget cut?" In response, John Gallagher, a mayoral spokesman, said in an e-mail message, "In these difficult economic times, all city agencies and government entities must do more with less".
A18 NEW YORK/REGION B1-10 Mayoral Candidates Remain Positive Mayor Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer, spent election eve in sync with it's-not-over-yet messages, urging New Yorkers to vote.
If and when Ken presents convincing polices that address this story that lend substance to his messages so far, then the 2012 mayoral game really could be on.
At a senior center in Bushwick run by Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, an organization that was Mr. Lopez's political base for decades, Carlos Antonetti, 41, a handyman who came to the polls despite a broken leg, said that Mr. Lopez was "worse than Weiner," an allusion to Anthony D. Weiner, the mayoral candidate who admitted sending erotic online messages to many women.
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted sending explicit messages to a woman, two years after he left Congress over a similar affair.
