Democratic NYC mayoral candidate, William Thompson, in a new interview w/Jewish Week:
Do you feel that former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani helped your campaign last week [when he warned that the city could fall back into high crime]?
I was surprised that former Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg decided almost to take a trip to the past and bring up what I term people’s fears and the politics of division. Later on, Mayor Bloomberg’s comment about Detroit [warning that New York could suffer a similar fate] was probably one of the lowest points I’ve seen the mayor on this campaign, and he has hit some low points with his ads and some of the other things.
Do you feel this will carry over into the election?
There are some people who won’t forgive that. It’s not only insulting in the African American and other communities, but there are people in Borough Park, because I was there later in the day, who just said they couldn’t believe he would try that in this community.
Thompson's going to need a whole lot of that to carry over to the election.
In the most recent Quinnipiac poll, Bloomberg leads by 18%.
