The Victory Speech Mike Bloomberg Should Have Given
“Thank you very much. I’m honored that a majority of New York City voters have given me another four years to serve as your mayor. I’m as surprised as the rest of you that it wasn’t a very big majority, and I want you to know that I’ve noticed that, and that I’m taking it very much to heart. It’s one of the reasons I’ve tried to tone down what was going to be our big victory party here at the Sheraton tonight. In fact, Jimmy Fallon was going to introduce me, but I decided to skip that. What tonight’s results show me is that New Yorkers have very serious things on their minds at this point in our history, and it wouldn’t be right to have a comedian and a big expensive light show kick things off.
What I really want you to know is that I heard you today. I heard how worried you are about your jobs and your families. I heard your concerns about how someone in my position could relate to everyday people who have to struggle just to get by. I realize that spending so much just to get elected only reinforced that notion for many of you. And I’ve heard your anger over how I fought to overturn term limits. The surprisingly close race we saw today has really shown me how much that bothered so many of you, and I want to acknowledge that tonight.
But I want to remind everyone that I also come from humble beginnings, and what I have today, I earned, through long years of hard work. I’ve been fortunate, and for the past eight years, and now the next four, my wish has been to share what I’ve learned in the business and philanthropic world to help make our city an even better place to live, not just for the wealthy, but for all New Yorkers. In my heart, I truly believe I have more to give this city as mayor, and that’s why I fought for the chance to stay in office. Not because I needed it for my ego, or because I need to stay in the limelight, but because we still have so much important work to do.
Tonight I pledge to begin this work anew, with a new focus on the needs of the people who are now struggling, the middle and working class people who feel like they don’t live in the same New York City that I do. To all those people tonight I say I hear you, I am with you, and thank you, for giving me another chance to serve as your mayor.”
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Comments: 8
Excellent. Do you have a Christie speech, Jim? I couldn't even watch that one. Talk about the lesser of two evils.
compare his winning to Yankee's, I can see his arrogant hasn't been less despite the close race warming sign.
"But I want to remind everyone that I also come from humble beginnings"
Which they often forget when they got rich
I still cannot believe he threw a whopping $100M for a freaking mayoral election. I can understand this amount for a presidential race, or at most congressional. But come on, this amount for mayoral race?!
Well, this guy got money to throw, what are you going to do?
I know that Bloomberg has a lot of money, what is it, $7 BILLION?, but the amount he spent on the election was offensive.
Mayor Bloomberg has a reputation for being very charitable. Next year, when he doesn't have an election to finance, how about if he gives at least that $100 million to the City of New York's budget? Clearly, he wouldn't miss it, and could afford to give a lot more. New York's budget this year is about $60 billion - $600 million, 1% of our budget, from Bloomberg wouid really mean something to the city, and not so much to him. It would be less than the 10% a lot of less well-off people give to charity each year. I know he has no reason to curry favor with us voters at this point, but it would be a mitzvah, and would go a long way toward making people feel better about reelecting him.
Since when can humility, as represented by Jim's suggested victory speech, be found in the absence of integrity? Those are basically consistent virtues, but the integrity train left the station along with the term limit law. When will the majority finally get it that corruption is corruption whether it is the exchange of power for money or (as in this case) money for power? But I believe that his governing demeanor will tell us more than did the speech whether or not HE get's it that his money can't buy him love! I also believe that an overwhelming majority of citizens will bid good riddance to this most pompous billionaire THIS TIME FOUR YEARS FROM NOW.
And some said what if he wants a fourth term, I think at that time someone will be ready to kill him should Mike decided to do so.
If not for the reminder, I can't believe he actually just wanted to do one term in the beginning. Well, look what we got now, the coming third one. Now a day it is hard to find a politician who say what he meant, and mean what he said.
Like a reporter said, once a person get in position of power, it is hard to get him leave without term limit law (except George Washington)
Give $100M to NY? Why would he do that? Those elite's life is A LOT different than ours, it is next to impossible for him to really understand (or care) what average New Yorker's real life concerns are. Why would he care? He doesn't have to.
So Bonehead BloomBucks bought his THIRD ELECTION. He said he was not going to run for a third term and he did. He now said he won't be running for a fourth. Of course no one believes him, especially since he proved our votes don't count because he spit in everyone's faces when he took it upon himself to change the law when we voted for term limits.
Also why do the yankees allow him to be on the field and in the locker room after they win. ALLOWING THAT DISGRACE OF A MAN THERE IS BAD TASTE ON THERE PART. This man throws his wealth around like he is the only one that matters. So what if he's mayor. He is nothing but a disgrace to the people who follow the law.
The yankees have higher standards than this. I hope in the future they don't allow him anywhere near the field, locker room or players.
I couldn't agree with you more, Jim and Barb K. You both took the words right out of my turtle-mouth.
To answer the question re: why do the Yankees allow Bloomberg on the field and in the locker room? He's the only one who can afford tickets to the games anymore.