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Here are a few things that people object to and the type of politician she is... (i posted this a little while ago in the NY forum)
She blocked the paid sick leave act for 3 years, (until she ran for mayor, then all the sudden she voted for it)
She didn’t lift a finger when a number of NYC hospitals went bankrupt and were closed, namely St. Vincent’s and another hospital in uptown. Surprise surprise, St. Vincent’s was sold to make way for luxury housing and a promised “walk in emergency center” to be opened in 2014 (phht, it’ll prolly be a CVS walk-in clinic 
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She lobbied for Bloomberg to get a third term AFTER NY’ers had a separate vote for term limits TWICE and we voted FOR term limits. They overruled the will of the people in a meeting.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/council-to-debate-term-limits-change/
She has been Bloomberg’s water carrier for his last term so that he can help her get elected, which is why people call her Bloomberg 2.0. Which would be bad enough except she doesn’t have any of his GOOD qualities. Of all the *good* things that Bloomberg has done, and he has done quite a few, there is no way she could have managed any of those things (the bike lanes, health initiatives, etc) b/c she is not a visionary and her only agenda is the Mayor’s mansion. So all we get is the sellout of NYC.
And that’s just a smidgeon of her type of politics.
On a pesonal level she is a hot mess, which one can witness on a regular basis. She spins this being a “pushy broad, but she can actually be quite nasty and is rarely, if ever, composed.
"in private, friends and colleagues say, another Ms. Quinn can emerge: controlling, temperamental and surprisingly volatile, with a habit of hair-trigger eruptions of unchecked, face-to-face wrath."
Her staff added soundproofing to her office. They also ask each other "Did she throw up on you today?"
A former donor says one time, "She screamed at me for 10 minutes, uninterrupted, and used the ‘F’-word at least 20 times. I was just so startled, I didn’t know what to do."
One ex-city official describes it as "old-fashioned screaming, in a way that you just don’t hear that much."
She is also the most unserious politician you could ever lay eyes on, and not in a fun way. I call her the clown cuz that’s exactly what she acts like.
She sticks up for gay rights. Other than that she has not a single good quality and many poor ones.
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