Christine Quinn: The News says she's the best Democratic primary candidate to lead New York City as mayor
The News endorses Christine Quinn because she combines the clearest understanding of the difficulties facing the city with the most extensive record of getting things done as a councilwoman and accomplished City Council speaker.
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PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013, 10:12 PM
UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013, 10:45 PM
ANDREW SCHWARTZ FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is the Democrat that can get things done.
After 12 years in which Michael Bloomberg remade City Hall into a results-driven powerhouse, New Yorkers choosing the next mayor are longing for a candidate with the vision and boldness to lead America’s most dynamic city. We are, too.
The Bloomberg era will end with crime lower than it has ever been, employment at a record level, neighborhoods reborn, the schools rescued from a culture of failure and an economy enlivened by cutting-edge high-tech enterprises. The streets are clean, the parks are in good shape and New Yorkers are living to riper, older ages.
Like Bloomberg or not, the gains have been real and, because they have been sustained, they are far too easily taken for granted. Allow crime to rise and the party’s over. Let up on demanding achievement from the schools and they will quickly surrender hard-fought progress.
The stakes are enormous. So, too, are the challenges awaiting Bloomberg’s successor — although you would gather from the Democratic primary candidates that maintaining New York’s upward trajectory while remedying the shortcomings of Bloomberg’s record will be no-sweat propositions.
They have sung the easy song of lifting the fortunes of the working and middle classes — a project well worth undertaking — without frankly acknowledging that the coming occupant of City Hall will confront an all-but-certain fiscal crisis of historic proportions.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The Daily News measured the backgrounds and promises of each contender by the standards of pragmatism, realism and effectiveness, and Council Speaker Christine Quinn is the best qualified.
Bloomberg’s no-raise labor strategy will leave a bill of as much as $7.8 billion for retroactive hikes on the mayor’s desk — a sum so large that paying even a quarter of the amount would necessitate significant service cuts or tax increases.
In the real world at the end of a campaign trail that facilely promises more cops and the introduction of universal pre-K education, New Yorkers will rise or fall, and the course of the mayor’s term will be set, by how well he or she comes through labor negotiations and manages in a straitjacket.
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