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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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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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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forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.
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I proudly accept the nomination of the Democratic Party to be mayor,
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supported the party and the president whose policies have hurt this city.
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Fasten your seat belts. The party is unified.
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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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This team has made us all proud, ... On the field and off the field, they represented the Bronx and New York City well.
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Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.
opponents
we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.
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This obnoxious, repulsive multimillion-dollar spending is bad for democracy, ... You can't buy everyone's vote in New York, and I won't let him!
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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.