Fernando Ferrer
Fernando Ferrer
Fernando James "Freddy" Ferrerwas the Borough President of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001, and was a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2001 and the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor in 2005...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1950
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Look, Democrats believe in certain things. And our problem is not that we're not the party of ideas. Our problem is when we forget our ideals, ... That's when we cease being Democrats.
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It comes down to two debates. It's too bad that for the last six or seven weeks, since I became the Democratic nominee, I've been having to debate tens of millions of dollars of radio and television ads and his multimillion-dollar spin machine.
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I think you'll see for the first time in American history two candidates, each representing the major parties of the United States, campaigning extensively in Spanish. It will be a sight to behold.
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I can't imagine anyone would turn down the opportunity to headline at the Apollo.
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Freddy has consistently supported the rights of noncitizens to vote but welcomes a healthy debate of the issue before it becomes law.
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If a citizen were barred for some reason or another from participating in the franchise, some might say, 'Wait a minute, we pay taxes, what are we talking about here?'
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forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.
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We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.
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You have supported right-wing politicians, including the chairman of your own campaign, Mike, who voted for that disgraceful piece of legislation.
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You know this city will track you down if you owe it a parking ticket, there's no reason why we can't track all of our students,
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We are concerned about the same kinds of people.
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We are concerned about the same kind of people. The only conversation we are having is about giving all workers in this city the right to decent health care.
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He's put tens of millions of dollars on the air trying to persuade people that he's a nonpartisan kind of guy. But when you support George W. Bush, when you support a conservative Republican Congress, when you support George Pataki -- all of whose policies have been hurting this city, all 8.1 million of us -- he is in no way a Democrat.
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honest leadership that doesn't waver or blow with the wind.