Brooklyn, NY – Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson pledged on the Dov Hikind radio show last night to have a complete overhaul at the currant administrations parking violations policy.
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Appearing on the Saturday-night show of the State Assemblyman who just endorsed him, Thompson nodded heartily in agreement as Hikind lamented the ridiculous “zero tolerance” auto ticket policy of the Bloomberg administration which gouges struggling New Yorkers for cash they need to “put food on the table.”
Pressed by Hikind whether he’d commit to take “complete look at… enforcement rather than raising money” regarding the city’s ticketing policy, Thompson replied: “That’s the one thing it needs to be about… also, to bring back something that’s been missing for a while: common sense.”
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Yeah, and once he will be mayor (never gonna happen) he will rememeber his promise to Hikind… U gotta be kidding. He’ll need the money to finance all his liberal programs and continue this ticket nonesense.
Go Thompson Go!
you will be doing very good in boro park on election day
That’s what we need a regular guy listening to the needs of regular guys. Time for bloomy to go.
Tompson has my vote.
This is not China or Russia, the people have spoken TWICE!! WE WANT TERM LIMITS!!!
Go thompson! Bloomy days are over
I’m against Bloomberg for the simple reason that term limits were implemented as a mandate from the NYC constituents on all legislators. Yet, he has the gall to change that just for himself. Why not include all legislators in the same swipe?
Thompson, I’m a BP’er and you have my vote.
I can assure you that on Election Day Bloomie will call off the dogs. The next day it will start again.
********************** Bloomberg Go Home *******************************
i dont know if i am seeing correctly.
does anyone follow real politics here?? Bloomberg by fay would be the better choice for the city at the current time. you want another obama in town – promises = zero results
bloomberg has proven himself.
U gotta be naïve to believe him. Too much money to give up. My feeling is that Bloomberg is going to be mayor for as long as he wants. Hopefully he’ll decide to seek another office and leave on his own. Truth is, we may not be happy with him but most of NY is. He manages the city as though it was a biz and he’s doing a good job on that front.
Iwas there last sunday bomie said I was late just came from church was everybody’s ears pluged, he has no regard for the religious Jewish community.Thompson was supporting the community when no one ever took us seriously two generation working with our neighboorhood,Bloomie is still learning!
this is baloney….he gots to raise taxes…vote for him and see what we had before….you thought preKoch and preGuliani was bad….well, then vote for thompson…at least he aint blind.
he’s just another big city liberal there no way he’ll keep word.
You dopes are focusing on the ticket issues, when there are cities that are already bankrupt! No one wants this, but it’s gotta happen if we want to live here. Bloomberg is a fantastic manager, any way you slice it and Thompson has no record of this whatsoever!
Nice try all you Bloomberg promoters The oilam has had enough! We love Dov and if he sayd Bill is good he means it!
We need to follow the law.
But Bloomberg can overturn the law (term limits)
When it doesnt suit him.
What hypocrisy.
Go Thompson!!!!
why would anyone believe him for a minute? you will never be able to hold him accountable based on his words. once he wins, how will you prove it to him that he’s not walking the walk? and like #3 how will he get the funds for his liberal agendas?
Bloomie showed his true colors when he tried to push his plan to charge outer borough residents for driving into Manhattan BUT killed the related proposal for charging manhattanites for driving out of their zip code.
Good, Bad, whatever NEVER ELECT A DICTATOR
there was never “common sense” when dealing with the traffic nazis, has it gotten worse yes, would any other mayor change that most likely no, its a major income for the city to pay its bills.as well if u dont like bloomberg, keep in mind that he doesnt take a salary, he gets paid one dollar a year. so automaticly by him being mayor the city is saving.
Thompson a liberal? Bloomberg has been by far more a supported of liberal cuases. He’s a Democrat turned Republican turned Independent. Doing just what he needs to win votes.
He’s been there for 8 years and he needs to spend 100 million to win again? Why isn’t his record sufficient? Why isn’t he leading by a landslide? Becuase NYers don’t really want him. He’s using fear to get us not to vote for an “unknown”.
Besides in reality he’s spend much more than 100million. That was his money. How about the millions he used of our money. The millions in raises to major unions in his 8th term – raises that he refused every year earlier – just to get votes. Who is counting those 100’s of millions?
Bring back Giuliani he kept us safe without ticketing us like bloomy
can anyone tell me what he meant by saying “to bring back something that’s been missing for a while: common sense.” meaning what?????
We made terms for a reason. When some1 is to comfortable, and with such amount over spending his opponent he will do what ever his batchler mind will
personally I feel that fines for illegal parking should be higher. The city should also offer unbiased traffic court judges, and fine traffic agents the same as the public when they issue bogus tickets.
Well it was ticketing day in Boro Park today. On 38th street i noticed one of the maids rip a bag off a broken meter. When i commented, ready to photograph her, she said something under her breath and then that she wasn’t ticketing. Well, 10 minutes later upon return, there was a ticket in the windshield. It wasn’t my car, Boruch Hashem but i felt bad for the person anyway. This maid kept on going up and down the block waiting for meter to expire and”catch someone”.
Whatever the case is, i won’t be voting for Bloomberg. I’ll be voting against him, which means i may choose someone else running.
So, even if your not for both, vote for the other person on the ticket, whoever it may be which strikes a vote against.
When the Bloomerg recruiters rang my bell , i let them know exactly what i feel about him.
We should take a lesson with what happened when some presidents who were good the first term, did us in on the second term. And now it looks like it’s a Purim charade all year.
Parking tickets are simply a way of raising taxes that can be legally avoided by careful vigilance. The trouble is that there is no way of proving that falsely issued tickets are incorrect. Now that the NYPD uses electronic devices to issue the tickets, there is no longer any way to fight them based on careless issuance by officers. There should be mandatory court appearances by the issuing officers, just like traffic violations, in the case of a dispute.