my god why would anyone want to do business in new york rent-seekers rule everythinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/nyregion/amazon-new-york-long-island-city.html …
Does single party manifest in legislative positions? Seems like Rs and Is take the mayorship with some frequency
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correct. the city council and all of the state and national electoral districts here (with the very noteworthy exception of Staten Island) are solidly blue but the mayor goes back and forth based on how people are feeling about cops and crime primarily.
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the city council, however, is utterly dominated by entrenched real estate and bigcorp interests so as is so often the case they whip out their blueness and helicopter it around with nanny state interventions while avoiding laws that would actually benefit their constituents.
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Eh, theoretical affiliations tell you little, really. Giuliani was sort of a grand exception in reaction to Dinkins and the general disorder of the city at the time, and Bloomberg only ran as an R/I because the internal D party politics gave him no path on that ballot.
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The city council is currently 48-3 D, borough presidents, public advocate, etc. go that way as well. D primaries are usually the main event there, and bitterly contrasted as a result. The R ticket is mostly an offering to this or that mogul with little institutional support.
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