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    Reverend Billy's Last Stand (of the Campaign)
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    "We've already essentially been fighting what Mike Bloomberg is for a long time," Talen explained. "And so to us it didn't seem so strange, as we have fought Walmart and Disney and Starbucks, and what we call the 'demon-monoculture' in our choir, over the years. Mike Bloomberg is just a corporation in human form." In 2005, Bloomberg spent $85 million on his re-election -- which means each vote cost him roughly $110. Full Article at Village Voice
    And so to us it didn't seem so strange, as we have fought Walmart and Disney and Starbucks, and what we call the 'demon-monoculture' in our choir, over the years. Mike Bloomberg is just a corporation in human form.
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
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Reverend Billy's Last Stand (of the Campaign)
  1. we would be drowning in a sea of identical details.
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  2. This city can make a comeback even if Bloomberg wins... The city of New York will be kind of a musical, colorful, wild, shadow government to Mike Bloomberg
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  3. He's our role model to finance something, to advertise something, to give people information that they do not need. Amen! Hallelujah!... I will march with this fake check, all the way to Gracie Mansion. Will you be there with me? Amen. And once we are there -- will we take our clothes off? Amen!
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  4. We've already essentially been fighting what Mike Bloomberg is for a long time
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  5. If this mayor dislikes this town and must defeat it by turning it into this monoculture; this boring, smoothed out, super-mall of a city, deep down he must know that the real New York City is unexpected and wild. It's the New York City of the neighborhoods, the New York City of the eccentric artists, an...
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  6. When you have more than $50 million worth of ads pouring into your psyche everyday ... it's not just the average person on the street that it impacts. It impacts writers. It impacts everybody.
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  7. Deep in Bloomberg's soul ... he dislikes New York City just as much as Rudy Giuliani does.
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  8. Politics is serious business, and you need $100 million dollars. I won the lottery, I got lucky, and I'm going to be mayor now!
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago
  9. We knew that this single billionaire Mike Bloomberg would spend 100 million dollars ... and electronically wallpaper our city and attack us psychically.
    SOURCE: Village Voice 1 month ago

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