NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to meet GOP about run for Mayor

Christine Quinn will not make it out of the Dem primary. She is seen as too close to Bloomberg on too many issues and the more left-leaning candidates will seize upon this. The Democratic candidate will be Thompson or Stringer or maybe Diaz Junior. As for Ray Kelly, he would be a very strong candidate and a good mayor should he win, but I don't think he's enough of a politican to take the plunge.

Support Ray Kelly for mayor, to keep New York on the go.

I am just one more Ray Kelly supporter from the Midwest who has been to the last five St. P Day Parades in NYC. Semper Fi.

Run Ray,Run

Is the parade the big difference between these two notable Irish candidates? If so, they better check into the rumor that good old St. Pat was gay, and if so, he would, just like all others pols in his day, want to march in any big parades.

As an independent, I feel both Kelly and Quinn can be trusted as "fair". NY is a completely different monster, that requires a broad range of thinking on a broad range of topics. I would tilt more towards Kelly for the Home Land Security aspect. NYC can not afford to lose his wisdom and know how on this topic. The stakes are too high.

One major difference between Raymond Kelly and Christine Quinn, at least as far as N.Y.C.s Irish community is concerned, is that Commissioner Kelly supports the St. Patrick's Day as a respectable, pro-family event that honors the faith the saint brought to Irelnd, while Council Speaker Quinn boycotts the parade for refusing to allow homosexuals to display thier own banners. However, the Speaker deserves much credit for the part she played in saving St. Brigid's Church for Cardinal Egan's demolition crews.