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Left turn ahead for mayor's office (NYC)
Crain's New York Business:In 1985, AIDS and crack were taking hold in the city and the Mets were on the rise. It was also the last time New Yorkers voted for mayor without a viable non-Democratic option.
Four years later, Rudy Giuliani lost a close race to David Dinkins, ushering in a 20-year stretch of hotly contested general elections for mayor. That's almost certain to change next year. With no Republican or independent contender in sight, it's becoming more probable by the day that the Democratic primary will determine who takes office in 2014.
That scenario has produced trepidation in a business community concerned that its issues will be ignored, and among good government groups that are worried that a portion of the electorate will be shut out. It's left business leaders wondering what the city will look like under a mayor more concerned with economic inequality than growth, and forced them to consider a world of scaled-back policing and mandated paid sick days and living-wage jobs. How the next mayor handles crime, education, government efficiency, taxation and housing are all causes of unease.
Said one real estate executive, “The definition of 2013 apprehension: Is [United Federation of Teachers President] Michael Mulgrew picking the next schools chancellor and setting education policy?”
Four years later, Rudy Giuliani lost a close race to David Dinkins, ushering in a 20-year stretch of hotly contested general elections for mayor. That's almost certain to change next year. With no Republican or independent contender in sight, it's becoming more probable by the day that the Democratic primary will determine who takes office in 2014.
That scenario has produced trepidation in a business community concerned that its issues will be ignored, and among good government groups that are worried that a portion of the electorate will be shut out. It's left business leaders wondering what the city will look like under a mayor more concerned with economic inequality than growth, and forced them to consider a world of scaled-back policing and mandated paid sick days and living-wage jobs. How the next mayor handles crime, education, government efficiency, taxation and housing are all causes of unease.
Said one real estate executive, “The definition of 2013 apprehension: Is [United Federation of Teachers President] Michael Mulgrew picking the next schools chancellor and setting education policy?”
My concern is that, while the Democrats hold a massive lead in voters, they'll squander their majority -- as they for the last 20 years -- fragmenting into ethnic, geographic and ideologoical subgroups, each pushing a seperate candidate until the last possible minute, and then finding it impossible to unify the Party around the eventual winner.
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