The 'Anyone But Quinn' Campaign Paints Speaker As Bloombergian Nightmare

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/the_anyone_but.php

You might've already seen this little snippet released by New York City Is Not For Sale 2013 (that's a mouthful).The video opens to a "smoke-filled room" with four stools in it, where the viewer would assume the Speaker makes shady deals with business-type folk. She's charged with a pseudo-liberal appeal that is more rhetoric than substance.

It's a part of a million dollar "A.B.Q. - Anybody But Quinn" campaign, which has been put together by the begrudged union forces left over from Bloomberg's 2009 re-election. It'll be on major cable networks in the days to come as the first notable attack campaign launched thus far (and this early) in the mayoral race. Also, it represents the political landscape of a City Hall race post-Citizens-United, where money and politics are two sides of the same shitty sword.

The electoral aim of the video is Quinn's worst fear: to be painted as Bloomberg Jr.

Explained Arthur Cheliotes of CWA Local 1180: "Speaker Quinn has shown time and time again that she shares Mayor Bloomberg's vision of New York City, only addressing the needs of New Yorkers on crucial issues such as livable wages, paid sick leave and working conditions when forced to by protests, bad press and spiraling approval ratings."