The Times reports on bonuses paid by Mayor Bloomberg’s successful reelection campaign. The mayor, a billionaire former Wall Street trader, is reaching into his own pocket to dole out the same generous checks to his staff that he did after winning office in 2001 and 2005 — 20 percent of each worker’s total wages, according […]
Category: New York City
The final number is almost in on Bloomberg’s re-elect spending: $102,000,000
The Times has this summary of Mayor Bloomberg’s spending on his re-election campaign.
New York City robocalls
This Times piece discusses its author’s distaste for political robocalls. These calls are nothing but political spam, and since it is possible to thwart computer-spam transmissions, surely the technology exists, or can be devised, to block robocalls. I am aware of the First Amendment implications of what I am proposing, and they weigh on me. […]