GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS TIME
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS TIME
Dear (Next) Mayor Ferrer (ha ha),
I’ve always been one to take the bad news first. However, seeing as you decided to run for Mayor against a billionaire, even though you have raised very little money, I sense you’re more of a ‘good news first’ guy.
So, here it is.
I did manage to vote for you this morning. Even though it meant taking a subway, a bus, walking three avenues, cleaning out the junk my mom now stores in my room — so that I could sleep in a bed, waking up at seven a.m. and walking to my local elementary school to pull the lever.
Now, for the bad news.
That I went home to vote, reminded my mother that today was election day. That revelation then triggered twenty minutes of a “I’m voting for Bloomberg song,” the lyrics of which I think go something like “I’m voting for Bloomberg, I’m voting for Bloomberg, I’m voting for Bloomberg and not for Freddy Ferrer.”
So there you have it, net: zero.
Good luck.
UPDATE: Ferrer Campaign motto: Death with Dignity
Oy. But on the upside, I got three out of four proposal votes right.
November 8th, 2005 at 6:12 pm
So that’s one legitimate vote for Bloomberg, one possibly illegal vote for Ferrer.
November 8th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
Hey, whenever the dinguses figure out how to do same day registration, I will vote at the place closest to my bed. Until then, I am entitled to vote where I am registered, so long as I still live in New York City, which I do. So’s your face.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Hey, maybe you’ll have another chance to vote for Freddy in ’09 (from Page Six):
November 8, 2005 — DEMOCRATIC insiders fear that even after today’s expected drubbing at the polls, Freddy Ferrer will try again in 2009. “He’ll take another licking and keep on ticking,” said one pol. “He’s got no job, no shame, and no real options.” Supporters of City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Bronx Borough President Aldolfo Carrion Jr. are afraid Ferrer will contaminate their expected faceoff in the mayoral primary four years from now. But when we asked our source if Ferrer will become the Puerto Rican Harold Stassen, the Republican governor of Minnesota who ran for president eight times, the reply was, “Who’s Harold Stassen?”
November 8th, 2005 at 11:14 pm
As the cool kids would say “‘rif”
November 9th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
I think the translation of “Who’s Harold Stassen?” is “Apparently.”
And what do the supporters of Thompson and Carrion think of Weiner? He is definitely running again also. Probably Giff also, but I don’t think anyone is worried about that.
November 9th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
rif?
November 9th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
short for terrif. which in itself is short for terrific, which is the sarcastic way of saying ‘this situation is no good.’
November 9th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
thx.
September 7th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Are you there?
Nice speech. I’m curious how it went over.