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The new mayor's shallow pockets, the abandoned fairgrounds, and the battle for New York City -- Stereogum explains how and why there's a new music festival on Randall's Island this summer.
Stereogum is quietly becoming the best place on the web to read about music and music related things.
posted by saul wright at 6:09 PM on January 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by saul wright at 6:09 PM on January 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
De Blasio has been a big, big disappointment - he's focused on minutia while at the same time is seeming to be more in the pockets of his donors than Bloomberg.
> New York politician corrupt; news at 11.
Is New York more corrupt than other major US cities? By the numbers, Chicago seems far more worse.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 7:01 PM on January 26, 2016
> New York politician corrupt; news at 11.
Is New York more corrupt than other major US cities? By the numbers, Chicago seems far more worse.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 7:01 PM on January 26, 2016
York more corrupt than other major US cities? By the numbers, Chicago seems far more worse
That's because you are listening to Fox News.
Most cities and states are the same. It's not what you know, it's who you know. People who tell me Chicago is corrupt piss me off. This is the state that actually send governors who break laws to jail.
What? You think your's doesn't? You poor, ignorant fool.
Of coups the right answer is "do everything for the people who vote for you." That's the ENTIRE POINT of an elected official. "Fix my problems"
Do you know why the Daleys were in office so long? They fixed problems.
Do you really want a government who doesn't care about problems? Who instead votes "principles" that they are paid for? Who marches to the drum of a billionaire?
Then vote against Democrats. At least democratic crooks can be bribed to fix things. Republican crooks are beholden to billionaires.
And you vote for them because they're "honest."
Im sticking to Chicago. The city that actually works. Is it perfect? Hell no.
But our water is drinkable. Unlike Flint, MI.
Never let a republican run your city. Ever. Seriously, armed revolt is the better answer. And no republican will ever argue that you can't have guns.
posted by eriko at 9:01 PM on January 26, 2016
That's because you are listening to Fox News.
Most cities and states are the same. It's not what you know, it's who you know. People who tell me Chicago is corrupt piss me off. This is the state that actually send governors who break laws to jail.
What? You think your's doesn't? You poor, ignorant fool.
Of coups the right answer is "do everything for the people who vote for you." That's the ENTIRE POINT of an elected official. "Fix my problems"
Do you know why the Daleys were in office so long? They fixed problems.
Do you really want a government who doesn't care about problems? Who instead votes "principles" that they are paid for? Who marches to the drum of a billionaire?
Then vote against Democrats. At least democratic crooks can be bribed to fix things. Republican crooks are beholden to billionaires.
And you vote for them because they're "honest."
Im sticking to Chicago. The city that actually works. Is it perfect? Hell no.
But our water is drinkable. Unlike Flint, MI.
Never let a republican run your city. Ever. Seriously, armed revolt is the better answer. And no republican will ever argue that you can't have guns.
posted by eriko at 9:01 PM on January 26, 2016
I think the author of the Stereogum piece is a little out of his depth writing about politics. Quoting the New York Post? I guess the daily Mail didn't have anything on this issue. The campaign contributions angle is disturbing, but totally small potatoes. I don't think the publicist for Governors Ball him or herself could have written a better article to express their outrage that NYC allows competition in music festivals.
Now,if private contributions had allowed the festival in Queens to go on over local opposition, that would have been a story. But that didn't happen.
posted by Steakfrites at 9:21 PM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
Now,if private contributions had allowed the festival in Queens to go on over local opposition, that would have been a story. But that didn't happen.
posted by Steakfrites at 9:21 PM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
I don't care about music festivals (because I haven't been to one since Lollapalooza in '92). But I live in Queens and have been following the Flushing Meadows/Corona park debate. The article is an impressive summary of the whole situation.
posted by Drab_Parts at 6:52 AM on January 27, 2016
posted by Drab_Parts at 6:52 AM on January 27, 2016
Is New York more corrupt than other major US cities?
Not the city necessarily, but at the state level New York politics is a fucking tire fire.
Has NYC liked any mayor since LaGuardia?
It's easy to forget because his legacy is mostly remembered as big sodas and stop-and-frisk, but public approval was pretty strongly on Bloomberg's side for most of his administration. I mean, we liked him well enough to let him ravage term limit laws and still re-elect him.
posted by Itaxpica at 7:16 AM on January 27, 2016
Not the city necessarily, but at the state level New York politics is a fucking tire fire.
Has NYC liked any mayor since LaGuardia?
It's easy to forget because his legacy is mostly remembered as big sodas and stop-and-frisk, but public approval was pretty strongly on Bloomberg's side for most of his administration. I mean, we liked him well enough to let him ravage term limit laws and still re-elect him.
posted by Itaxpica at 7:16 AM on January 27, 2016
Has NYC liked any mayor since LaGuardia?
Bloomberg, and before him (yes) Koch, and before him John Lindsay. All "popular" for suitable values of that word, given that the job is fundamentally impossible and the constituency (myself included) is famously grumpy and entitled.
posted by The Bellman at 7:50 AM on January 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
Bloomberg, and before him (yes) Koch, and before him John Lindsay. All "popular" for suitable values of that word, given that the job is fundamentally impossible and the constituency (myself included) is famously grumpy and entitled.
posted by The Bellman at 7:50 AM on January 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I mean, we liked him well enough to let him ravage term limit laws and still re-elect him.
This is probably better for the Bloomberg thread, but my understanding is that his electoral opposition was, shall we say, suspiciously inferior.
posted by rhizome at 9:55 AM on January 27, 2016
This is probably better for the Bloomberg thread, but my understanding is that his electoral opposition was, shall we say, suspiciously inferior.
posted by rhizome at 9:55 AM on January 27, 2016
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