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Mayor's Race: Who Will You Vote For?

I haven't seen any polling functions on DCF, and it's too late at this hour to try to insert them, but I'm curious what the DCF audience is thinking about the mayoral race. I have my own strong opinions, but what do you think?

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on September 28, 2009 at 1:21pm

Albuquerque's home builders, realtors and construction companies are voting for Berry- great, just great.
a vote for Berry will beget more empty, ugly office complexes, Walgreens, and auto supply stores, esp. on the NWside...
so Berry will not be getting my vote, neither will Marty McFly...

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Permalink Reply by Suzy Charnas on October 1, 2009 at 12:37am

Berry is a Libertarian fruitcake (Libertarianism = anarchism for the rich, and I do mean *for*). This is a brand of reactionary nuttiness that has bedeviled American politics for a long time. Don't let it get in the saddle here, or we'll be cleaning up the resulting mess for decades; see: Grover Norquist, the man behind George Bush & co., for an idea of where this kind of pernicious nonsense leads. Our grandkids are going to still be cleaning up after *those* guys.

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Permalink Reply by Don Brown on September 27, 2009 at 8:13pm

I had a personal encounter with the mayor in '94, during his first term, in front of a bunch of wide-eyed cub scouts preparing to tour his office that showed a level of ego and anger that I will never forget. I will skip the details, but I vowed never, ever to pull the lever for that man. And I am sure there are at least a dozen former cubbies who are still in therapy over what they witnessed that day. It was awful.

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Permalink Reply by Kenny on September 28, 2009 at 7:18am

All politicians go sour after being in office for too long. Let 'em serve one, maybe two, terms then send 'em home and let someone new step in.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Whiting on September 28, 2009 at 7:24am

Anyone but a Democrat. Only 25% of registered Republicans turned out to vote in November and look what it go us.

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Permalink Reply by bg on September 28, 2009 at 9:53am

What does that mean, "look what it got us?"

Olympia Snowe is the big dawg in the Senate doing her best to undermine health savings to the citizenry of our whole country, Blue Dogs who support the Republican agenda are calling shots on insurance reform in the House, right wing talking heads promote hatred in their control of the mainstream media.

What's the difference from pre-2009 except we have a President who can speak in whole sentences and has a genuine smile? Cripes.

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Permalink Reply by Benny the Icepick on September 28, 2009 at 10:53am

Scott and bg should take notice of the title of this thread: "Mayor's Race." This is about local politics, not national. Let's keep it on topic, yes?

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Permalink Reply by Masshole in Fringecrest on September 28, 2009 at 10:57am

Yes, friendly moderator here saying, "Take it HERE, please."

Thanks, Benny.

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Permalink Reply by Phil_0 on September 28, 2009 at 12:43pm

The mayor's race is officially non-partisan, too...so for the purposes of this discussion, it's Demo-what? Republi-who?

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Permalink Reply by Scott Whiting on October 5, 2009 at 11:55am

My points were:
1. I would not vote for a dumbacrap for anything, including the Mayors race.

2. If more than 25% of Republicans would get off their lazy *sses and vote, maybe we would win something.

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Permalink Reply by Tricross on September 28, 2009 at 11:15am

Marty is the man.

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Permalink Reply by once banned twice shy on September 28, 2009 at 11:22am

I'll vote for Romero because I have witnessed many ego/anger fits from Mr. Marty. Plus, while spouting about being Mr. Green, he supports policies that lead to sprawl (and line the pockets of his developer supporters). Berry scares me--he knows nothing about government except that he doesn't like it. I am afraid that Republicans will turn out in force to vote for him just because he is Republican (see Scot Whiting's comment) and not whether he will be any good for the city or not. Indeed, if it came to Berry vs. Marty, I would pick the lesser of two evils--but I hope to not have to make that choice!