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September 11, 2013

De Blasio Wins Democratic Primary for New York Mayor 
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Bill de Blasio has won the crowded Democratic primary to run for New
York City mayor. De Blasio campaigned as the most progressive candidate
to replace outgoing three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg, criticizing
Bloomberg's embrace of the police tactic of "stop and frisk" and vowing
to take on growing inequality between rich and poor. De Blasio may have
received a last-minute, unintended boost from Bloomberg after Bloomberg
described a campaign ad featuring de Blasio's mixed-race family as
"racist." De Blasio could avoid a run-off with second-place challenger
Bill Thompson if he holds on to 40 percent of the vote. On the
Republican side, Joe Lhota, a deputy to former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
won the Republican mayoral race. In another local contest that drew
national attention, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer lost his bid
for a political comeback in his race against Manhattan Borough President
Scott Stringer for city comptroller.

 

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