Alongside
Stop
and Frisk Live
from NY 5,
Candidate From
Twitter Is
Called Sal
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
NY August 13
-- While four
of the five
candidates for
New
York City
mayor who
debated on
Tuesday said
they'd had
minimum wage
jobs
(Christine
Quinn said her
camp counselor
job had paid a
bit
more), in the
spirit
of social
media this
will focus on
a candidate
not allowed in
the debate.
Between
7
and 8 pm, Sal
Albanese put
out a series
of 19 tweets,
a sort of
parallel
debate,
fact-checking
from the
margins. He
began by urging
New
Yorker, or at
least those
1300 who
follow him,
to "turn off
your TVs and
go outside to
enjoy our
beautiful
city."
For
those who
remained, or
stayed glued
to him by
smart phone
even while
out in the
city, Albanese
opined that
"my opponents
can't grade
city govt
because
they've been a
part of it for
12 years! A
reminder:
these folks
aren't John Q
Public."
On
the ABC
Channel 7
debate, after
Anthony Weiner
noted that his
opponents were
all part of
the city
government
system,
Chistine Quinn
emphasized why
he had had to
leave
Congress.
Out
in Queens,
Albanese
snarked,
"Gimme a
break. My
opponents are
the 1st, 2nd,
3rd, and 4th
best friends
of big
developers."
Switching back
to his
borough, he
diagnosed:
"DeBlasio /
Weiner / Liu
tax fantasy:
If they think
a Repub. state
senate will
raise income
taxes, I'll
sell em the
Brooklyn
Bridge!"
Bill
De Blasio was
asked about
taxing the
rich, and he
embraced it.
(A question
from the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
remains
outstanding
- perhaps if
Inner City
Press' @InnerCityPress
had asked it?)
Bill
Thompson and
Christine
Queens called
new taxes a
last resort.
Weiner was
specific,
saying his
"second book"
of ideas
provides for
increasing
taxes on those
earning about
$1 million,
cutting taxes
on
those under
$150,000.
Brooklyn
Bridge not
included.
When
talk turned to
minimum wage
jobs, and John
Liu brought up
sweatshops
(and pizza
delivery),
Albanese
crowed "I
worked for
BELOW
minimum wage
as a stock boy
at Johnny
Bananas in the
Slope." If
District
Attorney
Charles Hynes
wasn't engaged
in a more
vicious
debate with
Ken Thompson
of DSK
and Sofitel
fame,
maybe he'd
look back into
Johnny
Bananas.
On
stage, John
Liu's final
statement
stood out,
citing Bill
Lynch then
focusing on
"Mrs. Brown"
who was his
host in the
NYCHA
project in
(East) Harlem.
Lui said he
alone among
the candidates
pledged to END
stop-and-frisk.
Inner City
Press wondered,
as it
asked online
on Monday, if
new US
Ambassador to
the UN
Samantha Power
brought up
stop and frisk
to outgoing
Mayor
Bloomberg
when she met
him at 4:30
pm.
#WhatMatters?
Albanese
closed
out: "I'll be
in the next
debate
offering NYers
a clean
break from
these career
pols." We'll
see.
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