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NYPD boss Ray Kelly tops poll for mayor with Christine Quinn second

An Irish mayor in the Big Apple for the first time in 60 years?

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KARLA RODRIGUEZ,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, July 28, 2011, 7:01 AM
Updated Thursday, July 28, 2011, 9:46 AM

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NYPD boss Ray Kelly tops poll for mayor but isn’t running
NYPD boss Ray Kelly tops poll for mayor but isn’t running


Not since Bill O'Dwyer in 1950 has New York had an Irish mayor, but that may be about to change.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn lead the latest poll to succeed Michael Bloomberg in 2013.

While Kelly has refused to say he will run, Quinn is a definite starter for the job.
The poll done by Quinnipiac University revealed that nearly a quarter of the voters said Kelly would be their pick in the election, 23% voters in total.

The Police Commissioner, who is 70 years old,  has been clear  so far in his lack of interest to fill Bloomberg’s spot as he has yet to hire a campaign staff, has not raised any money, and has repeatedly said he will not be running.

Quinnipiac poll director Maurice Carroll said: "Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has never given the faintest hint that he'd like to move from Police Headquarters across the street to City Hall, but New York seems to like the idea of Kelly for mayor."

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With Kelly out of the race, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is in the lead with 23% of voters' support, leaving Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz with 15% as second.

Quinnipiac surveyed a total of 1,234 people between July 19 and 25. The poll also showed that New Yorkers are split about their attitudes toward the current mayor—with 43% saying they are not satisfied with Bloomberg’s work and 45% voters are.

Despite a CityTime payroll scandal and the city’s late reaction to New York’s December blizzard, the mayor’s image with New Yorkers improved by five points, based on the poll.

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nytreader | Sep 26, 2011, 07:47 PM EDT
Christine Quinn would be a horrible mayor. She led the charge for overturning the term limits law. All she cares about is Christine Quinn. She really is a poser.

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SouthSideIrish | Jul 28, 2011, 12:46 PM EDT
It was Jack Ryan - not Dan Ryan and he was a pervert who tried to force his wife to participate in swingers clubs and wife swapping. He sabotaged his own campaign as the news media filed a motion to unseal his divorce file; something he stupidly agreed to. In 2004, Ryan had Justin Warfel (a campaign worker) follow his opponent, Barack Obama, throughout the day and record everything he did in public on videotape. The tactic backfired when Barack Obama and others, including Ryan's supporters, criticized this activity. Ryan's spokesman apologized, and promised that Warfel would give Obama more space. In those divorce files, Jeri Ryan alleged that Jack Ryan had asked her to perform sexual acts with him in public in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling. Prior to release of the documents, Ryan claimed he had told leading Republicans that the divorce file could cause problems for his campaign. After the documents were released, GOP Chair Judy Baar Topinka said of Ryan's comment "It may have been somewhat misleading." Topinka said after the June 25 withdrawal that Ryan's "decision was a personal one" and that the state GOP had not pressured Ryan to drop out. Ryan's campaign ended less than a week after the records were opened, and Ryan officially filed the documentation to withdraw on July 29, 2004. The same party leaders who called for Ryan's resignation chose Alan Keyes as Ryan's replacement in the race; Keyes lost to Obama, 27% to 70%. Alan Keyes? Nice choice...

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PhlutiePhan | Jul 28, 2011, 11:35 AM EDT
Anthony Weiner was the leader until his fiasco. The radical crowd wanted him out of the way so that Quinn, the "darling of the left", could enter the fray. Do some research on Dan Ryan whose wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, sabotaged the campaign for the Senate in Illinois against the current president. Politics is a "rotten game" and right now the "lefties" are more clever in their deceit.

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slainte9 | Jul 28, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT
The last Irish mayor of New York City was Bob Wagner, January 1, 1954 – December 31, 1965. His mother was from Cork.

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