Just out of curiosity, how do you respond to this stuff? http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=ja-jp&q=Firefighters+Giulliani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Or the argument in Freakonomics that RG got a demographic lucky break in the form of lower crime rates that had zip to do with his policies? Inquiring minds want to know. John On Dec 18, 2007 3:51 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Any thoughts on the current Mr. Mayor? > > Okay, here's a real situation. Empirical results. You can't get any more > real. Someone in my family had an emergency, I wrote to every elected > official I could find, an E-mail marked "URGENT." Here are the results: > > NYC City Controller: responded quickly and helped. > > Mayor Bloomberg: Never responded. Never helped. Thanks, Mike. > > Governor Pataki: responded after one week with a form letter. > > Congresswomen Carol Maloney (Dem-NY): responded immediately, gave me the > number of her assistant, called him, helped a lot, and solved the problem. > > Hillary Clinton: responded five months later with a useless form letter. > > > Politics in action. I rest my case. > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/