Greeting from Team Thompson, as there are only 18 days left until the NYC mayoral election.
Republican Mayor Mike Bloomberg has enjoyed calling himself an "independent," and "above politics." The facts, however, are a different story. He is running on the Republican ticket, after being elected on the Republican ticket, because he made large cash contributions to the GOP.
His connections to the republican party are much more than that, as shown in the video released by the Thompson Campaign
Also, a new advertisement is out, focusing on Mike Bloomberg's Bill Thompson as comptroller in 2007.
Bill was proud to receive support from El Diario, the Nation's largest and oldest Spanish-speaking newspaper (Spanish version here), and the New York City Amsterdam News.
The first, from El Diario, the largest and oldest Spanish-speaking newspaper in the United States, cited Bill's "sterling record in both the private and public sectors."
After a decade misspent lionizing the rich and their excesses, too many New Yorkers are paying the price for the decisions made in Washington, on Wall Street and in City Hall. What New York City needs is an executive with a balanced perspective towards development and growth, where families most in need are a high priority. This leader is Bill Thompson.
Thompson has a sterling record in both the private and public sectors. For nearly eight years, he has served this city as its comptroller, successfully managing billions of dollars in pension funds, highlighting deficiencies and disparities in critical city services, and emphasizing communities that have historically been absent from the table when it came to asset management and city contracts.
The choice is clear. New York needs Bill Thompson to be mayor, and Bill Thompson needs our votes to beat the man who thinks he has been elected mayor for life.
Bill Thompson is a good man, an honest man, a true New Yorker who believes in the people of this city and the city itself. New York is a living, breathing thing with many moving parts. We have the rich and the poor, the working class, the underemployed and the unemployed. We have those who live in palatial apartments and those who live in cardboard boxes. We have a New York of the haves and have-nots and the have-somes.
With just over two weeks until the election on November 3, we need your support now more than ever.
