That he is supporting Bill Thompson for mayor and raising substantial cash for the Thompson campaign are two very good reasons not to vote for Bill Thompson for mayor:
Alfonse M. D’Amato, it turns out, is the biggest financial backer for one Democrat in the New York City mayoral race, raising money enthusiastically for William C. Thompson Jr., whose best-known boosters, including David N. Dinkins and Betsy Gotbaum, lean decidedly to the left.As the man long known as Senator Pothole might put it: What gives?The unlikely alliance has given Mr. Thompson, an even-tempered former city comptroller, a sorely needed jolt of high-powered fund-raising as he seeks to project energy and momentum in the wide-open race for the Democratic nomination.It also underscores the diversity of supporters in the political establishment that he has tried to demonstrate with endorsements from Merryl H. Tisch, chancellor of the State Board of Regents, and Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant governor and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman.Mr. D’Amato and his partner Melvin H. Miller, a onetime speaker of the State Assembly, bundled some $65,000 in donations to Mr. Thompson through March 11. And Mr. D’Amato’s close associates, former aides and major clients have pitched in, too. All told, his network has accounted for as much as $125,000 in gifts to the Thompson campaign....Mr. D’Amato called Mr. Thompson a decent, steady hand who understands education, economics, budgets and Wall Street, and said he found Mr. Thompson to be the least offensive Democrat, particularly from the perspective of his clients.“Some of them are antigrowth, antidevelopment, just plain wrong,” Mr. D’Amato said of the other mayoral contenders. He said that Mr. Thompson, by contrast, was someone “who doesn’t frighten business.”“They don’t have fear of Bill Thompson, that he’s going to do some radical proposal that’s going to hurt their business,” Mr. D’Amato said. “He’s not as give-away-everything-there-is.”
When oligarchs like Merryl Tisch and their functionaries like Al D'amato like Bill Thompson for mayor, there is a problem with Bill Thompson for mayor.
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