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Will Hillary Clinton Run For Mayor Of NYC? Many People Are Imagining She Will
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David Colon
Published Jan 6, 2017
Modified Jan 6, 2017
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While you're going about your daily routine, trudging through another day of regular old misery, take a moment to think about the hard lives of New York City's political reporters and bloggers. Where once there was the possibility covering a circus of a primary in which Mayor de Blasio fended off all manner of challengers, the mayor's sudden visibility as an anti-Trump force for liberalism has taken some of the wind out of his opponents' sails. Poor, poor political reporters. On the other hand, the lack of any real election news in the city allows you to do something like huff some glue and envision something big that will never happen. Like, say, Hillary Clinton running for mayor!
Such is the state of New York City politics that two Times reporters had to team up to answer the question"What if Seinfeld still on TV today?" "Hey is Hillary Clinton maybe running for mayor?" The answer is definitely no, but have you considered that "political circles in New York City," "cocktail parties on Capitol Hill," "right-of-center Facebook pages," and "left-of-center donors" are all asking if she will run... and are also saying no?
For all the moral panic over fake news, the "Clinton 2017" movement has been conjured out of thin air, brought to life by the same kind of "Pope Francis Endorses Donald Trump" headline that's allegedly rotting people's brains. Newsmax, the Proto-Breitbart/repository of medical advances THEY don't want you to know about, also ran with the rumor, where an extremely real "source with deep ties to the Democratic and media establishment" told the website that she would definitely win.
Even in the NY Times story, no one is on the record as saying anything more than "it sure would be interesting" if Clinton ran for mayor before admitting that this definitely won't happen. Beyond the irritating way that a totally fabricated "rumor" has spewed its way out of the fouler pits of the internet, it's disappointing that this is the best people can imagine. If we're all just taking peyote and thinking of the craziest things that could happen in the mayoral race, why stop at Clinton '17. Think about the chaos that would occur if Fiorello LaGuardia, the Little Flower himself, clawed his way out of the grave and threw his desiccated corpse into the ring. Imagine a spaceship crash lands in a field in Queens, carrying none other than a Bizarro Robert Moses, obsessed with mass transit instead of cars, who bends the city to his will? And seriously, imagen Seinfeld still on TV today. Jery gets an iPad!
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