Boss Bloomberg buys another election… as 39,000 homeless people check into NYC shelters each night

Let’s take the first scary fact. Mike the Boss Bloomberg (as in Boss Tweed) is spending $85 million on this his third term, after New Yorkers voted twice for two-term limits. A little arm-twisting, a raise for the City Council, and badaboom, they rubber stamped it. But, as the New Times reports, “he’s on pace to spend between $110 million and $140 million before Nov. 3” to beat his Democratic Rival Bill Thompson, whose got $6 million to spend and is twenty points behind him.

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