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Sandra,

Bill and Eric are hacks of the lowest order. Mark has transcended his hack-ness and has done a great deal of good over the years. Norman is, as I said a decent guy.

People from all over the country are always interested in NYC not only as a cultural icon, but because it is an incubator for all sorts of anti-democratic socialist ideas as well a model of awful Democrat machine politics, social justice canards (ala Al “shady” Sharpton, etc.), union strong arming (almost all public unions) and mafia criminality (especially if you throw in metro area NJ). New York City is always the future that most Americans don’t want. Still, it’s a nice place to visit, but most Americans would not want to live there.

Tort reform is completely consistent with consumer advocacy because if you lower potential jury verdicts then med-mal insurance rates would come down as will doctor and hospital costs. It’s just as simple as that. If reasonable caps were instituted state by state (the Feds should have no role in this) the cost of health care would fall by 10 - 15% or more. This is a win-win-win situation for doctors, patients and the public at large. Plaintiffs with legitimate law suits will still recover plenty of money, but not obscene amounts as they often do in liberal Democrat districts where coincidentally the cost of medical care is always the highest.

PS - doctors who make mistakes or who are dishonest like as in the phony “stories” the Bama has been telling, lose their licenses. That is an even bigger incentive to do a good job then paying higher insurance rates

All 4 candidates are highly qualified. I wouldn't be disappointed with any of them.

And people from Virginia sure do seem awfully interested in local NYC politics! Hmm, I wonder how consumer advocacy squares with previously stated interests in tort reform....

BIRTHER THEORIES! Though those seem to now be replaced with the indoctrination of schoolchildren. LOL indeed.

In the news this morning -- Bovis Lendlease, under investigation for misconduct, possible criminality, has received $6 million in stimulus money from US govt.

I admired Norman Siegel as head of the NYCLU, but the 1st time he ran for public advocate, against Betsy Gotbaum, he kept saying she couldn't be as aggressive as he would be, in a way that came off as patronizing & ended up turning me off to voting for him.

He's a decent man for a liberal, but too much of an egg head for this job. NYC needs an experienced consumer and citizen advocate like Mark Green to balance out the "dear leader" Bloomie's oligarchic-type tendencies.

Since gun control is always an issue in NYC, please ask him how he feels about the Second Amendment in light of the new Supreme Court ruling declaring firearm ownership as an individual right; and also in light of federal courts around the country dismissing about 95% (or more) of the cases brought by gun control nuts (both in and out of government) in a vain attempt to reduce citizens’ civil rights. The NYC gun control laws violate not only the 2nd Amendment but also fundamental due process and equal protection standards under the Constitution of both the US and NY State. Will he do anything to correct this?

PS - Please also ask him if he thinks Obama’s speech to the school kids is a violation of the separation between "church and state." How so? Well, Obama thinks he is the "Second Coming" a/k/a the "Messiah" (always with the two names, i.e., Barack v. Barry, etc.), so…. LOL.