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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New York City's public schools didn't get that much attention. Or else maybe he would have gotten the $23 billion the state owes us for education, ... And all he had to do was make one more trip to get it: to Albany.
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should be proud of the race he ran.
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I can't imagine anyone would turn down the opportunity to headline at the Apollo.
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Now, there are some who argue that our party needs to be reinvented to make it more popular. Well, I say, they're dead wrong.
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This is the most obvious thing in the history of the world,
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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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I proudly accept the nomination of the Democratic Party to be mayor,
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honest leadership that doesn't waver or blow with the wind.
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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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There has to be a new bond, a new promise, a new covenant, with working people in this city that tells them we honor your work, that in New York, if you work hard and do right, the reward should be the tools you need to have to build a good life right here in this city.
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Why does he spend like a drunken sailor? ... Our votes are not for sale! The people of this city are too smart, too ethical.
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we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.
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While Mike Bloomberg has spent three-and-a-half of his four years ... trying to spend $1.2 billion of our money on a West Side football stadium, between 500,000 and 800,000 New Yorkers ... remain uncovered, including 290,000 children,