Bloomberg advert claims he lead NYC through 9/11

[Celerity]

[Hoyt]

2. Well, taking office January 1, 2002 is close. Honest as most candidates nowadays, unfortunately.

[Blue_true]

9. He led it through the recovery from 9/11.

His ad is accurate.

[blm]

3. The aftermath of 9/11. He was elected Nov2001. NYC was in recovery mode

for a good 4years after 9/11.

[C_U_L8R]

4. There was a ton of work to do

Not to mention cleaning up after Giuliani.

[catbyte]

5. I've got a lot of reasons for criticizing Bloomberg, but not for this.

He was elected 2 months after 9/11 and the ad says aftermath. I still remember Rudy wanting to cancel the election because "the city needs me." Ugh.

[melman]

6. The ad does not say aftermath

He says "I led a complex diverse city through 9/11"

[Celerity]

7. The advert never says aftermath. At all. That claim is untrue.

If it did I never would have posted the video.

[Blue_true]

10. I give him some leeway. 9/11 was one day, with a few weeks of memorials.

The hard work of getting the city running again WAS done by Bloomberg since he took office less than 4 months after 9/11. You are desperately nit-picking with your claim that he is lying.

[melman]

14. "9/11 was one day, with a few weeks of memorials"

What the hell?

[Blue_true]

16. That description is accurate. The recovery from 9/11 took years. nt

[melman]

17. No it's not

The city was in turmoil for a lot fucking longer than one day.

[Blue_true]

18. The event took place on one day. The after effects lasted for years.

The trauma was over a lot more days than a few days after 9/11.

The point is Bloomberg did the heavy lifting for the city in both the aspect of comforting grieving and dying people, and rebuilding the city and getting it's world leadership status back.

I simply don't agree with you on his ad, I believe that his claims are on target.

[Blue_true]

8. He basically did lead the city through 90% of the recovery from 9/11.

His role in the recovery was much larger that what Rudy would try to claim.

[Celerity]

11. Then why didn't he say that? I am half Bajan, and if a hurricane

hit Christchurch on September 11th, 2021, then I moved to Barbados from Sweden on January 1, 2022, and then later on I said I lived through that hurricane (with zero further clarification or qualifiers) I would not be telling the truth.

[Blue_true]

12. I think that you are making more of the situation than it is.

He led the city from the disastrous effects of 9/11. That is all that matters to me.

[Kaleva]

13. He says it often. you just don't want to see that.

Heck, I have a flyer here on my office desk from the Bloomberg campaign where it says he helped lift New York from the tragedy of 9/11

Edit: From his campaign website

"Lifting New York City
In 2001, just weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City in his first run for public office.

Mike and his team rallied New Yorkers and led the city through a new era of progress and prosperity – writing one of the great comeback stories in American history."

https://www.mikebloomberg.com/about

[nsd]

15. Oh, come on.

This criticism is semantic nonsense. I’m not a Bloomberg fan, but be reasonable. Rebuilding lower Manhattan from January 2002 onwards was certainly a big part of guiding NYC “through 9/11” — where “9/11” stands for the whole traumatic period and not just the day of.

[NedBraden]

20. Including....

....putting his cronies in charge of the lmdc. Guys like Dan doctororoff. Who profited off of the destruction.

And the shoddy practices Bloomberg 's rush to redevelop GZ caused the Deutsche Bank fire a few years later, killing 2 ( and later a third) more FDNY firefighters.

Google the village voice journalism on it. Unless Bloomberg scrubbed the great work they did off the web.

[Blue_true]

21. I read up on Daniel L. Doctoroff. Basically I found nothing but good

stuff on the guy. He started up a lab company and was Deputy Mayor under Bloomberg, that doesn't bother me because many Mayors choose people they trust as deputies.

Doctoroff has good credentials, Harvard educated, a successful entrepreneur, a philanthropist.

It is easy to claim that stuff got scrubbed from the Net, that claim is as old as the Net itself, but the fact is no information that I found remotely supports your claims.

[NedBraden]

19. Part of the aftermath

Included caring for sick and dying first responders. Firefighters , police officers, union trades .....the men and women the first performed rescue work them recovery work.


Bloomberg's response?

Call fallen NYPD Det Zadroga a junkie. Accuse the fallen officer of being a drug addict and that's why he died. Rubbed salt in Zadroga s family's wounds instead of thanking and comforting them.


Today, no thanks to rePUKES , we have the ZADROGA ACT.

When is Bloomberg going to be called o. His 9/11 LIES.