"We Voted For Term Limits!" Billy Talen At Mayoral Debate -- The Heckle Heard 'Round New York

[CloeBuckingham]

Rev. Billy is no an issue. He doesn't have a prayer of winning dog catcher.

My point is that Thompson is just a Bloomberg stooge.

[CloeBuckingham]

Amen! Thompson is just Boomberg in disguise. Only 5% of the registered Democrats voted in the primary. I was supporting Tony Avella, but Thompson had the machine behind him. This man who ruined NYC schools at the school board.

[AnonymousB2B]

You are STILL clueless in your insistence in confusing Rev Billy with Bill Thompson. Usually when someone gets called out for idiocy, they change up and get smart, not you.

[AnonymousB2B]

Rev Billy did NOT get the same amount of media exposure as Thompson and Bloomberg, if he had, it would have been a three way race that Billy probably would have won because his very detailed platform of true change would have been heard, it is on his site and it was obviously not read by you as you must be a voter who goes for the guy with the nicest tie/collar as neckwear seems to be the only thing you acre about.

[CloeBuckingham]

Bill Thompson Praising Mayor Bloomberg

This video is proof positive that Thompson is nothing more than a Bloomdroid. His just Bloomberg's puppet. I'd rather have the puppeteer as mayor.

[CloeBuckingham]

Bill Thompson Praising Mayor Bloomberg

watch?v=_xk5UIdDu3g

The above video shows that Bill Thompson is just a Bloomberg puppet. I would rather have the puppet master than the puppet.

[mylesh2000]

what does THAT have to do with ANYTHING that we are talking about here? We are talking about REV Billy! he is the one who interupted Bloomberg, who had no business being there in the first place because the people voted for TERM LIMITS!

[TMaddaJr1991]

All hail Bloomberg! yet another term will be under this corrupt man's belt! Thank you for buying your way into the office yet agian good sir!

[CloeBuckingham]

Bloomberg won fair and square.

[TMaddaJr1991]

Of course he did. If you call spending millions of dollars and giving no one a chance to challenge him by spending lots of money and buying his votes, fair. Then by all means he is clean.

[EBKemanon]

King Mike has bought the vote. All hail the plutocracy! (Vote Reverend Billy if you want a real mayor.)

[CloeBuckingham]

Thompson? He's destroyed education in NYC.

[EBKemanon]

No. Billy Talen. You know, the Billy this video is about? The one uploaded by "reverendbillytalen?" How, with all of this context, did you come to the conclusion that I meant Billy Thompson?

[CloeBuckingham]

Come to the Sheraton to celebrate Bloomberg's win!

[EBKemanon]

Bloomberg is a disgrace and a tyrant. Support the people's demands for term limits.

[CloeBuckingham]

I voted for Mike, the best choice!

[EBKemanon]

Obvious troll is now obvious. No person of intellect or values would vote for the crook Bloomberg. Election bought.

[CloeBuckingham]

Joe Klein is the one to fix our schools. Thompson was a joke at the school board.

[EBKemanon]

Troll sure is troll. 1/10.

[CloeBuckingham]

Is that your argument? LOL!

[EBKemanon]

Oh hey you're still going.

[mylesh2000]

This troll must be from teh so-called "Independence Party"

[mylesh2000]

Yeah, if you are filthy rich and/or a developer, ten asshat Bloomberg is the best choice: for those people, anyway.

[CloeBuckingham]

Without these "filthy developers," there would be no place to live. Rather than just labeling people, realise that developers also contribute to New York.

[mylesh2000]

there wer PLENTY OF PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE before all of this luxury housing was built, get informed!

[mylesh2000]

your boy Bloomie BARELY won after spitting in the faces of the people, who voted for term limits, and spending a quarter of a billion dollars just to get 50.6%.

fuck Bloomberg, if you want to suck his ass, then go to one of HIS forums to do it

[mylesh2000]

yeah, he's confused, he keeps getting Rev Billy and Bill Thompson mixed up, a very good troll he doth not make.

[billyguns2]

The heckler raises a valid point! Bloomberg represents the height of hubris and arrogance. It is the same old story: the rich and powerful think they can get away with anything because they are rich and powerful, and the rest of us are nothing. Have you looked at the condition of our streets lately? Have you noticed that we are paying more for less service in every area of our lives? A vote for Bloomberg is a vote for more of this nonsense.

[CloeBuckingham]

I am delighted with Bloomberg. He built car park near train stations so I can just zip in to Manhattan, leaving my car behind. This is the greenest mayor in the history of NYC!

[billyguns2]

You see, you don't live here so you have no iea of what you speak.

[mylesh2000]

considering the blackout of the media, Billy did GREAT!

[mylesh2000]

Bloomberg should be OUT of the debate and Rev Billy in!!!!

[CloeBuckingham]

Bloomberg won the debate!

[mylesh2000]

fuck Bloomberg! Bilyl won that debate! Bloomberg had no business running! The people voted for TERM LIMITS!

[CloeBuckingham]

He didn't win anything. Billy is the ultimate Bloomberg suck-up:

Bill Thompson Praising Mayor Bloomberg

watch?v=_xk5UIdDu3g

Bill Thompson is just another Bloomberg brown noser. Bloomberg told him to run because he knew he could beat him, and if Thompson won, it wouldn't matter. He's under Bloomberg's thumb.

[mylesh2000]

you are getting Rev Billy and Bill Thompson mixed up, how can you make a political argument when you do not even know who the players are, troll?

[AnonymousB2B]

man you are fucking stupid, mylesh was said that REV BILLY won the debate, he/she said nothing about Thompson.

[mylesh2000]

God I wish I lived in NYC, I would get the word out about Rev Billy!

[franklanguage]

Get it out where you are!

[mylesh2000]

Oh I am!

[mylesh2000]

Eight is not only enough, it has been too damn much!

[Arttravelbelle]

Rev. Billy's got my vote! We don't need anymore gentrication in our town.

[elmotpoopie]

gentrification

[BenZolno]

This is EXACTLY what we need. How can residents even tolerate him on the ticket? Even if he were Gandhi, a term limit is there in case a guy gets too greedy and has too much control, like.... Bloomberg

[vran228]

Wow. That guy got LIVE! Lol. Im pissed I missed it.

[DRUNKENRAMBLE]

Vote for Jimmy McMillan for the 'RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH" PARTY. A party NewYorkers can believe in!!!

[AnonymousB2B]

fuck you, Bloomberg, you are spending at US President levels and you can barely register over 50%: this is how much people in NYC fucking hate you!

[NastyGreaser]

thats great! let them feel the heat!

[cloud1232006]

wow fuck bloomberg... why is he even there?

[diah4]

I believe there should be term limits. Hell, alot of the time, like right now, the more conservative democrats, but democrats nonetheless, are fighting against what the people want, but last time I checked , they were suppose to be the voice of the people.

bottom line, their views tend to overshadow what the people who voted for you want, and that defeats the purpose.

[fishhead06]

If the electorate voted for term limits, that should be respected. That being said, term limits are a subversion of democracy. People should be free to run for office, and the electorate should be free to elect them, or not.

[MsArtGeek]

that is the tired refrain of those who are happy with the status quo, either for greed or lack of imagination. Term limits keep democracy alive by not allowing an incumbent to gain too much power and inertia - it's well known that an incumbent has an edge over any challenger as long as the voters don't remember a big fuckup. The longer they remain in office, the more entrenched they become. Bloomberg rejected the will of the electorate by strongarming the CC to allow him a 3rd term. Disgraceful.

[rtistex]

get fucked bloomberg... where is the change Barack all of you are corrupt!!! AMERICA RISE UP!!!!!!! we cannot allow this ... what next ?are you telling me obama is going to be president for 12 years...16 years..  crowned king ..... fuck that.....

[patriciobrito]

There should be term limits for every public position like there is for presidents

[st4ticblu3]

Exactly. Then we won't have evil bastards like Rumsfeld or Kissinger hiding in the shadows for decades pulling strings for personal gain.

[rokikay]

so true...that douche should leave already

[Latinlabel]

Eight is enough!

[emr1028]

I've never understood the concept of term limits. If the people can't tolerate the leader they can simply not vote for him

[LooseLatitude]

Google: "corruption"

[emr1028]

Google: "elections"

[LooseLatitude]

~shaking my head~

Google: "election corruption"

That's 14 million pages.

Corruption itself nets 43.1 million pages.

That's not insignificant.

[lonchecaliente]

Great JOb!!

That's exactly what the public should be asking..

"what are you doing here?"

anyone not asking that doesn't understand the real intent of that politician.

btw, do NOT vaccinate your kids

[lizlena789]

secret submissive female seeks man with a plan to eat a van, down by the river

[TMaddaJr1991]

What a fine case of Billy being Billy! I have one question though, why the HELL was he not in this debate. These people are afraid of the truth? It's a god damn shame that this man will not win because of the corupt bull of Bloomberg. I will never trust a man who was a Democrat and became a Republican just to win both party votes. If you like dictators, then vote Bloomberg. If you want a great city to become even better, vote Billy Talen!!!!!

[Fortinbras85]

Since when did Ollie move from weather forecasts to debate moderation?!

[joes805]

hahahahah!!!!!!

[AnonymousB2B]

Bloomberg is running on BOTH Republican and Independence party ballot lines.

To the Independence Party: you are corrupt!

Major candidates (and other degenerates) are always schmoozing third party people for their ballot line.

[0nyxBlackman]

"what are you doing here we voted for term limits" has 245 results on Google. I wonder what it will be this time tomorrow.

[marick626]

mine shows up with 635,000 results

[0nyxBlackman]

"What are you doing here! We voted for term limits!" is my new mantra.

[AnonymousB2B]

I will NOT tolerate another criticism of Chavez on the term limit issue by either the Republicans (OR DEMOCRATS) when the fact is that the PEOPLE of VENUZUELA VOTED TO END PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS. The people of NYC voted TO IMPOSE TERM LIMITS on the Mayor's seat and Bloomberg weaseled the City council into overriding the people's vote!

[horsesinnyc]

Good question, what was he doing there when the people voted for 2 terms?

[CarolLesterMusic]

"What are you doing here?"

" WHy are you here?"

Reverend Billy you are just GREAT. You get to the point and make it so simple!!

Sister Soprano Carol

[Dkouts57]

gloomberg is a fukin piece of shit and shouldn't have the right to steal romt he citya thrid time. give someone else a shot to rob.

[mylesh2000]

get the fuck out, Bloomberg, you crook!

[tleilatr0nx]

thanx for having the guts to force the PEOPLE's voice into that charade!!

[somethingcl3v3r]

Arent you proud you have the First Amendment? Better use it while you still got it.

[hippieboulderchild]

fuck yeah billy!

[jazzzytina]

Hooray for Billy Talen! If only we down south could vote for him!

[WaluigiSoap]

That was really rude.

[AnonymousB2B]

Billy was NOT rude! He was being just!

Bloomberg's circumventing the will of the people, who voted FOR TERM LIMITS on the mayor's office, now that is pretty rude!

[tacos4all]

Deb8 is enuff!

[millerfresh4]

"That situation" What nerve!

[theraulproductions]

Dominic Carter, the moderator, reporter for NY1, is such a sucker of Satan's cock, and it's so clear here.

[Barbikat]

What a great man that Billy Talen is!!!  Why wasn't he allowed to debate????

[ryanboje]

GO  BILLY! We love you in KCMO!

[tolabrennan]

GO REV

[ForthPosition]

What IS Bloomberg doing at this debate? Why am I getting calls on the phone asking me to vote for him? Why am I getting flyers from him in the mail? WE VOTED FOR TERM LIMITS!!! TWICE! He and our City Council overturned our vote...Time for him to GO!! Time for some DEMOCRACY!

Can I get an AMEN & an AWOMEN?

[NewIndigo]

Glad they didn't taser the Rev! Give 'em hell Billy!

[greengoddess10]

very disappointing to see Nicholas Carter not respond to the cogent challenge to the legitimacy of Bloomberg's run.

[skaweber]

Well, MAYBE if the Rev. had been allowed to participate in the debate, he wouldn't have HAD to disrupt the proceedings!

[atlien991]

Hugo Chavez tries to get rid of term limits and Republicans say he's a dictator.

Bloomberg, a Republican, tries to do away with term limits and Republicans say 'VOTE FOR HIM!!!'

Are you all beginning to see why reasonable people do not take you seriously?

[AnonymousB2B]

and atlien991: the PEOPLE of Venuzuela VOTED to ALLOW Chavez to run again indefinitely, Bloomberg had the city council change the rules.

And why the hell isn't Billy Talen in this debate???????????

[atlien991]

My point wasn't to defame Chavez. My target is Republicans who can invent a problem out of anything as long as the RIGHT PERSON is the problem. When it is one of their ilk, anything goes.

[AnonymousB2B]

no atlien, I totally understand, I wasn't harping on you, I was supplementing what you were saying, your terrific post by breaking it down and further calling out the hypocrisy of the US Republican establishment (and let's be honest, also the Democratic Party establishment, James Carville has ties to the right-wing rich opposition in Venuzuela). You are spot on atlien!

[CavemanSynthesizer]

I think he's an "independent" now. Not only does he change the laws by bribing council members and media outlets, but he changes party affiliation as it is convenient to his political aspirations.

[mylesh2000]

he's running as an INdependent AND as a Republican he has his name on TWO ballot lines, now if THAT isn't crooked, then I don't know what crooked is!

[atlien991]

It doesn't matter what he calls himself. He is hoping Republicans will vote for him. And they will, of course. A Black man is running against him.

[parakeeta2]

God bless you, Rev. Billy, you are our salvation!

[fafunno]

I agree that this democracy is a farce. And I support what Rev. Billy is trying to do. But with all the money and entrenched power, who's gonna let you even close to changing anything?

[fafunno]

Either way, I should mention that your work at the debate was spectacular.

[ghenevar]

Go Reverend Billy! Just goes to show that the office can be bought, and the people's voice ignored. We voted for Term Limits! What will Emperor Bloomberg decree next?

[suburbancowboy]

In a democracy, you have more than 2 choices for office.

In America, we have only one more choice than Iraq had under Saddam Hussein.

[LiveFreeSpeech]

Free Speech! A cry for democracy! Term limits = democracy

[vernacularsnoop]

The richest man in New York overrules the voters' will and pays his way to a third term... meanwhile, only 2 of 8 candidates on the ballot are invited to the "debate". This is the farce that passes for "democracy" in our country. We badly need CHANGEALUJAH, vote Rev. Billy!

[seamoremonster]

What a sham! If I lived in New York, I'd be voting for Billy. We need decency in government, not greed. We need compassion in government. We need more like Billy. The mans on a mission to bring America to her senses!

[SpaceHamlet]

"Just please hold on candidates, one second while we silence dissent,."

[lromfried]

That situation WAS a candidate -- Billy Talen of the Green Party -- not allowed to participate in the debate. Bloomberg circumvented the will of the electorate who voted for term limits by going to the city council. When a South American president tries to overturn term limits WITH A REVOTE OF THE ELECTORATE, our press calls him a dictator.