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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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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He's put tens of millions of dollars on the air trying to persuade people that he's a nonpartisan kind of guy. But when you support George W. Bush, when you support a conservative Republican Congress, when you support George Pataki -- all of whose policies have been hurting this city, all 8.1 million of us -- he is in no way a Democrat.
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I think this is the most indecent thing I have seen in my public life that spans 25 years.
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Look, I'm not running to be the mayor of the fourth grade. I'm running to be the mayor of all the grades.
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Look, Democrats believe in certain things. And our problem is not that we're not the party of ideas. Our problem is when we forget our ideals, ... That's when we cease being Democrats.
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Why does he spend like a drunken sailor? ... Our votes are not for sale! The people of this city are too smart, too ethical.
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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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We are concerned about the same kinds of people.
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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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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 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.
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If a citizen were barred for some reason or another from participating in the franchise, some might say, 'Wait a minute, we pay taxes, what are we talking about here?'
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forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.
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I can't imagine anyone would turn down the opportunity to headline at the Apollo.