Democratic Primaries
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)his racist policy was not nearly as bad as Trumps at the Southern border. Bloomberg is not as bad a racist as Trump. Anyway Bloomberg's racist beliefs and actions belong to the past.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BootinUp
(46,924 posts)But yeah, I hope we choose wiser than to nominate Bloomberg.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Also, other cities were thinking of fingerprinting residents of public housing units to ramp down crime and ensure that those who rented the units, were in fact the actual residents that should be there. They were also attempting to tamp down drug trafficking too. Some of the requests to address these issues came from the very residents of the public housing units too (in STLMO they did). Residents were too scared to go outside after dark.
In STLMO they didn't end up doing this (fingerprinting) but I don't know about NYC. Being that public housing was the federal government's responsibility, I suspect that it didn't go either in NYC (fingerprinting). The big overall fix that they did was to shut down the multistoried public housing units (10 stories or more) and build instead, more nicer, 2 story public housing units, w/ much nicer yards and more spread out, like it should be. A much better scenario for the residents.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PatSeg
(46,803 posts)There are some things in one's past that can't be escaped and this was recent past.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
thesquanderer
(11,954 posts)Okay, a moderate one, as Republicans go. But when someone can go back and forth between parties out of convenience rather than out of changes in political convictions, what do you expect?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)The primary is better served with anyone but Bloomberg.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
lunasun
(21,646 posts)The NYPD program, exposed by the Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning series in 2011, confirmed many Muslims worst fears and left permanent damage between the Muslim community and law enforcement, even after it ended in 2014.
Then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg approved and oversaw the program, saying it is what he expected the NYPD to do. He staunchly defended the surveillance when it was exposed and widely condemned.
Many are not only skeptical of Bloomberg as a candidate but also fear the possibility that his rise could lead to more policies that target Muslims at the national level. They point to the fact that Donald Trump praised the NYPD program as a presidential candidate, then took office and signed into law a travel ban that targets several Muslim-majority countries.
Similar to stop and frisk practices, experts say NYPD surveillance of Muslims caused severe damage between law enforcement and the community. And for little benefit ― the NYPD has even confessed that the questionable program did not produce a single lead to any terrorist plot.
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On top of all the questionable past, I really dislike what he has done to Bidens and all candidates poll numbers by parachuting in on the primary all just to save the country from Warren / Sanders
He has every right to run late and cherry pick which states he sees for delegate wins but it does sort of interfere with our traditional primary process and participation that was just starting to go to vote imo and would have lead to a nominee undisrupted
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
squirecam
(2,706 posts)Nt
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden