New Yorkers Disapprove Of Bloomberg On Schools, Term Limits: Polls

Two new polls spell bad news for Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A Marist-New York Daily News poll shows that 49% of New Yorkers believe Bloomberg has "failed in his goal" to improve the city's schools; 38% said he has succeeded.

"Since Mayor Bloomberg took control of New York City schools, students have benefitted from system-wide reforms and better classroom results," spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti told the Daily News. "Our students continue to make consistent, significant gains and outpace their counterparts throughout New York State and other urban areas around the nation."

Meanwhile, a New York Times poll finds that 73% of city voters want to reverse Bloomberg's extension on term limits, bringing back the two-terms limit that was in place for city officials before Bloomberg extended it to three.

Term limits will be on the ballot in New York this November after Bloomberg pushed lawmakers to extend them in 2008 so that he could run for a third term.

Last month, Bloomberg refused to discuss the issue when asked how many terms he now supports for city officials.

Comments

[gogogadget]

09:02 PM on 09/07/2010

Bloomberg is a living Mr. Burns . Glad to see NYC getting tired of his act. He's a wimp who needs to step down.

[dct1999]

07:31 PM on 09/07/2010

Bloomberg hasn't done a dayum thing for the NYC public schools and his end run around term limits make him a hypocrit.

Too bad far too many of my fellow NYers were too dayum lazy to get out and vote. And yes, I'm talking specifically to the black and latino communities.

[01Crayno99]

06:36 PM on 09/07/2010

I have lived in NYC my entire life. I remember Mayor Lindsey and all the others since. I will state, for the record, that Mayor Bloomberg, in my view, has damaged the very spirit of NYC. He is a megalomaniac, globalist. His concern is ONLY for the NYC and global elite.

Through his actions, he has almost always demonstrated disdain for the US constitution, bill of rights and the will of the people.

He has grown the city payroll dramatically and then attempts to balance that bloated payroll on the backs of the working middle class. He has ruined this city. He is taxing and fining the middle class to death.

Quite frankly, he is driving me and my family out of the city and probably the entire region. This comes with great distress because I have always loved my city.

[Calvin Skinner]

10:24 PM on 09/09/2010

I still think the his predecessor was even more of a despot!

[rikster]

03:53 PM on 09/07/2010

his honor... Mayor Mike for life is causing the city great harm..he is destroying business and is turning it into a cash machine for hidden taxes. it won't be long before you will be taxed on how many steps you walk in Manhattan..!

[Good Googli Moogli]

05:23 PM on 09/07/2010

you aint never lied

[olddognewtrick]

03:21 PM on 09/07/2010

Where'd ya get the midget Claude?
Jake Gittes

[UhOh1]

02:56 PM on 09/07/2010

reverse? we voted not to extend term limits so shouldn't that be what it reverts to once the furor is out of office?

[drummey]

01:37 PM on 09/07/2010

history generally does not look favorably on people who change term limits just so they can run again. look it up, bloomy.

[Trilby]

01:32 PM on 09/07/2010

I am sure going to the polls in November. Imagine, we have to vote for term limits again. Twice wasn't enough. It was absolutely disgraceful how Bloomie changed the public mandate by fiat.

[patman77]

01:08 PM on 09/07/2010

betcha its the conservo-cons. knowin' he is getting ready to get on the peace train with the prez to help straighten out this mess before the rethugs get back in the saddle to bran d our arses again and empty our bovine acting wallets.

[Trilby]

01:32 PM on 09/07/2010

Say what?

[bklynnupe]

01:07 PM on 09/07/2010

Giuliani beat in the heads of the cities unwanted.
Bloomberg ran out anyone who dared to ask “how much” in this city.
Bloomberg- the little guy has done more to screw the little guy than possibly anyone in the history of NYC. It was always so insulting to see him put on his little New Yorker costume ( Yankee cap, bomber jacket, jeans) eat a hot dog and walk across the bridge. Because of Bloomberg, I think the term of Mayor and the City Council should be 1 term. The problem is one they get in they don’t want to leave.
Bloomberg is an obnoxious little dork.

[MIKEinNYC]

12:56 PM on 09/07/2010

The schools ARE better but not as good as Bloomberg claimed that they'd be. The fact is, there are 1 million students and about 100,000 teachers. You cannot turn a behemoth of a system like this around on a dime.

But let's give the man some credit. The City is now a wonderful place to live and visit. We'll get close to 50 million tourists this year. That's a record and it's not for nothing.

Even with all of his faults, I'd take him as mayor over anyone else.

[patman77]

01:10 PM on 09/07/2010

except. the mayor from th series "DEADWOOD"

[MahatmaCoat]

01:49 PM on 09/07/2010

Bull. This city may be a wonderful place for someone from Kansas to come and visit, but more and more it is becoming overly regulated and unlivable to those of us who want to live in OUR city, not Bloomberg's vision of a European plaza. I don't care to live in a place where character is paved over in favor of uniformity, where every newsstand is ripped-out just so a city-contracted organization from overseas can build exactly the same stand on each corner, where the beloved Washington Square Park fountain is ripped out and moved, just so it can be centered for no reason at all, where the DOT can waste millions of dollars in order to change the layout of our streets and try to impose their social engineered vision of how we get around the city... All of this while the city cries poverty and can't even provide aid to rape crisis hotlines, hospitals, etc. etc. Bloomberg is a horrible, horrible mayor.

[lennief]

02:44 PM on 09/07/2010

If I didn't know better, I'd think I wrote this myself. Exactly my thoughts on the Little Emperor. I concur with your other posts on him as well.

[Good Googli Moogli]

05:24 PM on 09/07/2010

x3

[me again]

12:14 PM on 09/07/2010

All of the quality candidates backed out as they thought the Bloomberg machine would crush them dollar for dollar. Bloomberg had no business running, the City had voted twice for term limits and the City Council had no business overturning the will of the People. As far as schools are concerned, they continue to be a mess.

[Chris1962]

01:28 PM on 09/07/2010

He barely squeaked by in his bought-and-paid-for third term. I think he spent something like $100M on his campaign, and he won with 50.6% of the vote.

[wonkee]

01:44 PM on 09/07/2010

Too bad Representative Anthony Wiener backed away. I wonder if he will run next time.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:13 PM on 09/07/2010

Is this really a surprise, we can thank all those who voted for him AGAIN for all his failures

[patman77]

01:10 PM on 09/07/2010

and yours ?

[FlaviaDeLuce]

05:03 PM on 09/07/2010

And yours what??? What kind of question is this?

[joefoss]

10:57 AM on 09/07/2010

Mayor Bloomberg's low approval ratings have more to do with voter anger & fear, I think, than any fair appraisal of his job performance.
People are just really fed up. And, who can blame them?
=We suffered through 8 years of catastrophe with Bush & Cheney: two bloody wars, disgraceful behavior both in Washington and at Abu Ghraib, all topped off with the worst economic crash since the 1930s.
=Then, we got a new President who promised to "change" all that. "Hope" soared, along with Barack Obama's rhetoric. Even people who didn't vote for him wished him well.
=But, then, President Obama turned out to be "just another politician." Smarter, better educated and, probably, with more personal integrity than his peers; but, still, where it mattered most, a politician. Once in office, he turned to deal-making and "compromise," instead of fighting for what he said he believed in--what we needed: real reform of health care and financial
institutions and government re-regulation of corporations that had been left to loot and plunder consumers by the previous, "pro-business" Republican administration.
=So, Mayor Bloomberg gets dissed, mainly for just being someone who holds political office
in this era of "get the incumbents." It's unfair, and for anyone who believes in our democratic system, it's also kind of scary.

[me again]

12:17 PM on 09/07/2010

Nah, has nothing to do with the Federal part of our Government, nor does it have to do with economic satisfaction. He's been in office too long and took advantage of a loophole afforded him by the City Council. He's done ok, but barely was elected this time 'round.....if there had been a real candidate he would not be sitting in the Mayor's seat. The Mosque issue has also made him unpopular for many New Yorkers.

[MahatmaCoat]

12:48 PM on 09/07/2010

Nice try, but people dislike Bloomberg because he runs the city like a tyrant! Time after time he's placed the interests of the wealthy and powerful ahead of those without money or power. From overly-regulating what city residents eat and smoke, to pushing small businesses out in favor of large interests (see Willets Point, Atlantic Yards, etc), to pushing these godawful street changes on the city, Bloomberg has proven over and over than he is tone deaf to the majority of his constituents and is more interested in making NYC a place for tourists and the hoi-paloi to flit around instead of a place for the average New Yorker who needs to eat, commute, and work. When it comes to "knowing what's best for the plebes," Bloomberg is just as Giuliani.

[Trilby]

01:39 PM on 09/07/2010

And the way he talks down to us "little people," it's like we are the dirt under his shoes. He really is an awful little man. A tyrant, as you say, who has no patience with any point of view other than his own.

[jonnyquest]

12:06 AM on 09/09/2010

Amen!!!

[Good Googli Moogli]

10:28 AM on 09/07/2010

i never cared for him in the first place
what he did here in NY as far as term limits was disgusting
i've heard so many people say i know what he did with term limits was wrong but i voted for him anyway
and now when they complain i quickly tell them i dont want to hear it