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Cor & hjs, good points!

Quinn speech and diction is alot better than Giulian. and Bloomberg is just awful and he might run for prez

What's the matter with someone sounding local instead of like a new anchor??? I looove our accents. You can hear them in the places they came from, like Ireland. It doesn't matter, as long as the ideas they are expressing are worth listening to.

Kathy, I'd love to tell the same thing to Hillary Clinton (for shrieking) and John McCain (for droning) and George W. (for wheezing).

Sorry tourism jobs are not living wage jobs. There is too much emphasis on tourism for NYC unless you own a hotel.

Kathy,
I sort of know what you mean. She seems like a fine person and public official, but there is something I don't like about her. She seems like a maximal political animal, too much of one. I kind of feel the same way about Marty Markowitz where I know they are good people, but just too intense and thus annoying.

I don't mean to be overly harsh or critical but if Christine Quinn is serious about running for the office of mayor, she really ought to take some speech and diction lessons. Her accent is extremely grating and very hard to listen to at length. I liken it to nails on a chalk board.

I hope that doesn't sound cruel. I don't mean to be.

Hi there,

My biggest gripe is the state of the city's environment. The city is home to many families with small children. Can you please do something about the tens of thousands of double axil, heavy polluting trucks that role down our residential streets daily. The street was not built for this kind of heavy traffic and neither were our bodies.

Thanks!

Why would a first openly gay mayor not be a big landmark? Would it not represent people being able to set their prejudices aside? Given the kind of persecution gays have suffered throughout the world, at times as brutal as that experienced by ethnic minorities and women in general, is it not noteworthy when one of these persecuted people actually manage to ascend to a position of power?

I think CQ was a cop out on the horse carriage issue which was featured some months back on BL. This due to the tax collection business model of NYC which she would undoubtedly continue as a lesbian-or-not, bought and paid-for professional poltician mayor.

Correct me if I'm mistaken but doesn't federal money come from us? As opposed to not costing us anything?

I really don't think lesbianism could be considered sensationalistic in NYC.

Brian, I'm disappointed you brought up CQ sexual orientation...and here I thought WNYC didn't give in to sensationalism in the news...why would you even mention she's a homosexual woman, is there anyone left who doesn't know she's openly homosexual.

Why is that relevant to anything? Is her Irish status also an issue to WNYC?

I think it's worth focusing on her gender as a big First! Not her orientation, or her Celtic roots.

Let's leave sensationalism for the "Post" and "US Weekly".