New York City swears in first Democratic mayor in 20 years

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

For the first time in 20 years, New York welcomed a Democrat as mayor in an inauguration that registered a sea change in the city’s politics.

 

A pastor speaking at the ceremony for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called New York a “plantation,” while entertainer Harry Belafonte denounced New York under Michael Bloomberg as “Dickensian,” while the outgoing mayor sat by, BuzzFeed reports.

 

“Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,” Brooklyn-based pastor Fred Lucas Jr. said. “Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.”

 

“So let me be clear: When I said we would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, I meant it. And we will do it.”

- Mayor Bill de Blasio

 

Lucas had several additional references to slavery in his short address, citing shackles, bondage, auction blocks, the Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

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Well, it certainly will be a plantation with a Democrat in charge...

 

[Pepper]

"Lucas had several additional references to slavery in his short address, citing shackles, bondage, auction blocks, the Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War and Reconstruction Era."

 

 

 

Where's that time machine thingie?

 

Send him back!

 

 

[righteousmomma]

Reprehensible!

Are you kidding me???? What NYC has this guy visited in the last millennium.

[Draggingtree]

Killing the 1% Golden Goose

Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine

Two years before Occupy Wall Street's band of radical grad students set up their tents and cardboard signs in Zuccotti Park, Mayor Bloomberg warned the City Council against frivolous tax hikes. "One percent of the households that file in this city pay something like 50% of the taxes. In the city, that's something like 40,000 people. If a handful left, any raise would make it revenue neutral."

 

And then the 1 percent became the target of the left's answer to the TEA Party. It wasn't unusual to see bus riders wearing "We Are the 99%" buttons the way they had once carried I Heart New York bags.

 

New York City now has a radical leftist in Gracie Mansion, Bill de Blasio, a radical leftist City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, and a radical leftist public advocate, Letitia James. The city is now run by the Working Families Party/ACORN and tax hikes will be used to finance generous payoffs to unions.

 

But the unions who rigged this election may never see those payoffs. New York City's unfunded pensions are estimated as being as high as $136 billion. The crash may only be four years away. http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/11339