And you're going to have to deal with the same mayor".
This is the same mayor who put up a slide projection of the Ten Commandments at City Hall recently.
"It's interesting that he seeks the mayor's endorsement, when it's the same mayor who wants to shut down senior centers in our communities," Mr. Martinez said.
"We can change the collar of the dog, but the dog remains the same," Mayor Aníbal Ibarra of Buenos Aires said.
Its ruling undoubtedly had nothing to do with the fact that the board was appointed by the same mayor (and approved by the same City Council members) who stood to benefit from the decision.
Then again, Mr. Bloomberg's criticism of the transportation agency comes from the same mayor who once defended its desire to raise transit fares, before the fare increase was announced, much to the annoyance of the governor and the authority.
The bad part is that the same mayor who lays off city employees and asks all New Yorkers to live with austerity will be handing out tax abatements and subsidizing the construction of office buildings in Lower Manhattan.
Yes, the same mayor who is normally so single-mindedly dedicated to law and order that last year he pelted the reputation of an unarmed black man, Patrick M. Dorismond, who was killed when he rebuffed an undercover narcotics officer.
The same mayor who urged calm on September 11th two weeks later sought — unsuccessfully — to declare a sort of municipal state of emergency in order to extend his term in office.
I also published at that time a piece about why I wrote about Albany, and soon thereafter I had a call from Mayor Corning, the same mayor who had left the room when I arrived.
This is what a Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign looks like: scrupulously planned, exhausting and, at least in the eyes of some opponents, like a national political operation plunked into a city that, having had the same mayor for more than 20 years, may not quite remember what a competitive race can look like.
