Gifford Miller
Gifford Miller
A. Gifford Milleris the former Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represented Council District 5. Barred from seeking reelection due to term limits, the Democrat ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the opportunity to run against incumbent Republican Mayor, Michael Bloomberg in November 2005...
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We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.
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I think the first thing we have to do is grieve, ... We lost a colleague and a friend. And I think all the members of the council, our staff and his staff, have to join with the members of his family and the rest of the city in mourning his loss. It's a terrible, terrible loss.
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New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.
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You never know until people vote. It's discouraging to see the polls where they are. But we're still holding out hope.
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The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.
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We've complied with every rule and regulation of the Campaign Finance Board, and we've documented and disclosed every nickel that we've spent — unlike this mayor.
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Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,
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We can do a lot better in this city. We need leadership that's going to stand up and fight for urban areas across this country.
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When New Yorkers return to their cars on Sunday and don't find a parking ticket, they can thank God... but they shouldn't thank Mike Bloomberg,