Gifford Miller
Gifford Miller
A. Gifford Milleris the former Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represented Council District 5. Barred from seeking reelection due to term limits, the Democrat ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the opportunity to run against incumbent Republican Mayor, Michael Bloomberg in November 2005...
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What I've learned from working in New York politics is that the race is either really obvious, or too close to call, ... And this race is too close to call.
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You never know until people vote. It's discouraging to see the polls where they are. But we're still holding out hope.
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My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.
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New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.
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The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.
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We can do a lot better in this city. We need leadership that's going to stand up and fight for urban areas across this country.
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Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,
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Clearly when you're going to run against someone's that's spending $100 million, you're going to have to raise money to be competitive, and I think I've done that, ... I don't worry or focus on what my opponents are doing; I focus on what needs to be done to get my message out of real accomplishments, of real results for real New Yorkers.
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We've complied with every rule and regulation of the Campaign Finance Board, and we've documented and disclosed every nickel that we've spent — unlike this mayor.
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When New Yorkers return to their cars on Sunday and don't find a parking ticket, they can thank God... but they shouldn't thank Mike Bloomberg,
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When you look at the priorities he has put forward you have to ask the question: Is that it? ... I believe there are more important issues facing the city.
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We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.
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Our young people who have asthma will not be exposed to the same sorts of toxic substances in our schools,
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I think the first thing we have to do is grieve, ... We lost a colleague and a friend. And I think all the members of the council, our staff and his staff, have to join with the members of his family and the rest of the city in mourning his loss. It's a terrible, terrible loss.