Thompson to Concede to de Blasio in Mayoral Primary
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Source: New York Times 
William C. Thompson Jr. will withdraw from the race for mayor of New York on Monday morning, ending his second bid to run the city and making Bill de Blasio the undisputed Democratic nominee.
Mr. Thompson will make his announcement and endorse Mr. de Blasio at an 11 a.m. news conference at City Hall, according to several high-level campaign sources.
His decision clears the way for a general election contest in which Mr. de Blasio, currently the city’s elected public advocate, will face Joseph J. Lhota, a Republican who previously served as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Mr. Thompson won just 26 percent of the vote in last week’s nine-way Democratic primary, leaving him in second place behind Mr. de Blasio, who had 40 percent, in unofficial results released after the election. But the city requires a runoff primary election if no candidate wins 40 percent of the vote, and Mr. Thompson had professed some hope that as the lever voting machine results are double-checked, and tens of thousands of uncounted paper ballots are tallied, Mr. de Blasio’s total might dip below that threshold.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/nyregion/thompson-to-concede-to-de-blasio-in-mayoral-primary.html
Go ahead and call him Mayor de Blasio.
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I hope he can suck it up enough to be a cooperative force in the Fall campaign.
