Fernando Ferrer
Fernando Ferrer
Fernando James "Freddy" Ferrerwas the Borough President of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001, and was a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2001 and the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor in 2005...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1950
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Now, there are some who argue that our party needs to be reinvented to make it more popular. Well, I say, they're dead wrong.
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Fasten your seat belts. The party is unified.
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This is the most obvious thing in the history of the world,
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Freddy has consistently supported the rights of noncitizens to vote but welcomes a healthy debate of the issue before it becomes law.
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This team has made us all proud, ... On the field and off the field, they represented the Bronx and New York City well.
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There has to be a new bond, a new promise, a new covenant, with working people in this city that tells them we honor your work, that in New York, if you work hard and do right, the reward should be the tools you need to have to build a good life right here in this city.
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You know this city will track you down if you owe it a parking ticket, there's no reason why we can't track all of our students,
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While Mike Bloomberg has spent three-and-a-half of his four years ... trying to spend $1.2 billion of our money on a West Side football stadium, between 500,000 and 800,000 New Yorkers ... remain uncovered, including 290,000 children,
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we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.
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We are concerned about the same kind of people. The only conversation we are having is about giving all workers in this city the right to decent health care.
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Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.
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You have supported right-wing politicians, including the chairman of your own campaign, Mike, who voted for that disgraceful piece of legislation.
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We're here in Harlem. Mike Bloomberg's campaign posters could make it here. Where's Mike?
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We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.