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A ‘Cheerful’ Mayor Bloomberg Visits Occupy Wall Street; Promises To Clean The Park

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It’s not really all that surprising that New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg hasn’t gotten along particularly well with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. I mean, the guy is a politician and a billionaire. He’s about as “The Man” as the man can get. Add to that a series of less than supportive comments and you don’t have the makings for much of a chummy relationship. However, when the Mayor finally took a trip down to Zuccotti Park to see the scene for himself, witnesses described him as being “cheerful.”

Bloomberg took a walk through the area and, while he didn’t spend much time talking to the protesters personally, he didn’t punch holes in anyone’s bongos either, so that’s nice. What he did do was detail plans to begin systematically cleaning the park while the protesters are there.

RELATED: Mike Bloomberg’s Advice To Occupy Wall Street: Focus On Government, Not Banks

From NBC New York:

“According to Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, Bloomberg expressed his belief in the First Amendment and that protesters have a right to protest. But he said ‘the last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park,’ according to Holloway.

‘The situation is not in the best interest of the protesters, residents or the City,’ continued Holloway.”

While some protesters I’m sure are thrilled with the idea of an official cleaning, others think it’s unnecessary, pointing out that tons of volunteers have been working around the clock to do it themselves.

You’ve gotta respect them sticking to their ideals, I suppose. Still, if the guy offers them Porta-potties, they really should take them.

Watch the video from NBC New York below:

(h/t Breitbart.tv)

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  • Anonymous

    Firehoses are nice.

  • Anonymous

    This characterization by Coulter of the Wall Street Flea Baggers is 1000% correct:
    “They are adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug
    dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every
    protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Andrea Dworkin
    look-alikes, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their
    ponytails and other average Democrats.”

    All OBAMO-ites.

  • #OWS

    You can’t make me sh#t in your bourgeois toilet !   FASCIST !!!!

  • sam

    coulter said that about the tea partiers too??!?! wow…i didnt realize she was sooo smart?

  • Steve P.

    In an Andy Rooney voice

     

    Don’t you find it strange that the very ones leading this
    OWS protest are rich capitalist themselves? From Michael Moore, to George Soros
    to Al Gore? I ask the police department how many tea party people were arrested
    or pee’ed in the street, none he replied, but they dressed funny didn’t they?

    I told him, well, the ones at OWS are naked a part of the
    time? He said I know, and I enjoy frisking them too :-)

    Be a member of the Tea Party NOT the Pee party

  • Anonymous

    i think bloomberg should give them what they want… a share of his billions.

  • SNAPTIE

    Brookfield Office Properties,owners of Camp Poopstock “Basic rules intended to keep the park safe, open, clean, and welcoming to all visitors will be clearly posted,” “These rules includes bans on the erection of tents or other structures,generators,tables,chairs as well as the placement of tarps, sleeping bags, or other coverings on the property. Why do leftists always require others to clean up after them? NYCPD Ready to rumble? http://www.docstoc.com/docs/99069159/Document

  • Anonymous

    Where’s my Soros/Moore/Gore money then?

  • Anonymous

    Where’s my Soros/Moore/Gore money then?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    There’s a difference from those you mentioned who are supporting the movement from leading it!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Not all rich people are Pricks.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Ann Coulter hates everyone, including herself!!

  • Anonymous

    Water-cannons would do a better job than pressure-washers. Get all the garbage moving down the gutter.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s not that she’s smart, she just hates everyone, especially the ones who don’t buy her books!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The parks should be cleaned up!! It’s the responsibility of the people there and the city!! Once the park is cleaned, Bloomberg said they are allowed to return!!

  • Anonymous

    OWS has no leaders.

  • O2BNAZ

    Thats what decent America does…clean up after the violent parasitic bigots that “occupy” the left…

  • Guest

    Zing…

  • TruDat

    They should be left in their own squalor.

  • Anonymous

    Here is a great recent video of the protesters that represent the left! You will laugh on thinking how Pelosi and President Zero defends these people…I guess this is the face of the left wing! I am glad I play for the other team!

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a17_1318468898

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, i went down there to check it out this past weekend. The smell is overpowering. he should also send down some ProActiv, that crowd did not have the best complection I have ever seen.

  • ganymede

    To those rightwingers who live in an alternative universe, Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Seal of Approval’ insures that the protesters will be there for many months even throughout the winter. I’ve been down there a number of times and contrary to the bad propaganda and provocateur statements, Zucotti Park has been kept surprisingly clean and many of the daytime protesters and supporters are ordinary citizens, many of them workers in the Wall Street area. OWS has long legs and will continue to grow nationwide. This should come as no surprise, since the majority of people in our country are catching on to the obvious fact that this is a serious protest based on the hardcore fact that Wall Street has totally fucked over our economy and is going to have to make good and allow real reform to take place.

  • Tommy Telephone

    I’ve never seen a Jewish guy with so little backbone. Bloomberg should pay the rent and lost revenue of small businesses in the area that are being overwhelmed by these loser.  Imagine trying to serve your  customers while some low life is crapping on your doorstep. 

  • Bailey

    I heard that Bloomberg originally had the city deny permission for port-a-potties and halted garbage pickup as a way to discourage the demonstrators and, possibly, to make them look bad.  Is that true?  If so, I guess his visit to the park will improve the situation for the demonstrators.

    Why are the demonstrators so angry?  Here’s a link with charts that are quite interesting:  http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1

  • Nate

    I wonder whose money Bloomberg is going to use to clean up the park, his or the taxpayers?  Guess.  They are very generous with other people’s money.  Patriots should go to:
    http://www.secondamendmentwarrior.com

  • Anonymous

    Like Chris Christy?

  • Anonymous

    Giulani would never have put up with any of this OWS crap. He would have run those slackers off a long time ago.

  • Hagen619dj

    When you mess up a place….isn’t up to you to clean it up too??  However; stupid is and stupid does.  NY has already spent alot of money on overtime for the police to patrol that area.  When the crowd is shown on TV it looks mostly like college students!!  These people are just wasting more money that NY can’t afford to spend.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    Well now get your facts straight, the difference between the two is laughable and offensive.
    Tea Party’s cause was for less goverement and less spending,rules and regulations and left not a tissue behind,,ahhhh say the same about this hippie Woodstock filth? Ann never spoke about the two the same, so stop your lying spinnen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    That kind of speech shows your ignorance but then again Far Left Liberal Loons are sheep who walk the walk as told. Socialist I presume?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! You bought all of her books… didn’t you??

    Furthermore, I guess you agree with Coulter and her comments about the widowed wives of 9/11?? Shame on you!!

  • Trash Ieatspam

    With new rules forbidding the protestors from staying overnight. The park is cleaned round the clock by an onsite sanitation group. This is just an excuse to be able to raid the camp and arrest the protestors.

  • Anonymous

    Yes-somewhere away from the rest of the population.

  • Anonymous

    Dear Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street Protestors are
    trying to tell you something very important, Profits from Wall Street have been
    very excessive, along with the theft graft and corruption have been excessive
    enough to break our economy. How is that? Why is it? You can understand wages
    are inflationary, gasoline is inflationary, increasing commodity prices in
    general are inflationary and counter-productive to growth and competition but
    you don’t seem to understand just how radically inflationary the Hedge Fund
    Managers along with their associate profiteers are. The manufactured manipulations
    which produce hype and phony faith in the market, causing the prices to raise
    and lower like a see-saw, while profits and losses get generated by the
    billions and are milked out of the hands of the high-risk investors,
    speculators, and so many of the funds we all depend on as our savings and pensions
    which these profiteers are playing with. I think the Wall Street Protestors
    want you to stop the rip-off taking place in the Casino Part of Wall Street.
    I’m referring to the useless, ruthless part of Wall Street which morphed into
    the “Greatest Miss-named Casino on the face of the earth”, where the
    Hedge Fund Managers,(the pit bosses and their associates who are robbing Wall
    Street Pension funds and millions of peoples savings for the future. The Casino
    part of Wall Street should be using  coins like used in Las Vegas instead of
    certificate pieces of paper describing the extremely inflated PROFITS the
    conjured up, it should be called Funny Money and anyone dumb enough to put
    their money there have only themselves to blame when they lose. Many
    intelligent, earnest people put their life savings there, believing it is safe.
    Wow! That is sad. Better yet. Separate the Wall Street Casino from the real
    part of Wall Street which invests in businesses which produce products, promote
    growth and stay healthy through thick and thin. I you take that Casino Money
    and put it into real Companies which produce products, you could manufacture
    things in America, sell them around the world dirt cheap and make more real money
    than the Wall Street Casino makes simply because Wall Street is and up and
    down, win and lose program just like Las Vegas. If you haven’t been to Las
    Vegas, go there and see what I mean. The Protestors are aware of this; they
    just don’t know how to fix it. Give them a hand Bloomberg. Everyone likes a
    Hero. Show them you can separate the real money from the funny money by separating
    Wall Street into two parts, the “Wall Street Casino” and, “Wall Street True
    Investments.”

    It will take a little work but it will pay-off big
    time, for your children and mine in years to come.

     

  • Anonymous

    How was their spelling? Seriously.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s a shame, and a disservice to your fellow Americans to so eagerly swallow partisan BS so you can crap on thousands of your fellow citizens. Even a minor effort in stepping out of the conservative echo chamber might do some good.

  • Anonymous

    She said something similar about the wives of 9/11 victims as well didn’t she?

    Hi I’m Anne, I say outrageous things on TV and in books and make millions from it. Ain;t America great? {except the scumbags I get paid to bash}

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, let’s keep our protests neat and reasonable, with little or no expense or  inconvenience to anyone, because those are the most effective kind. Just look at history {but not to closely}

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see how cheerful nanny Gloomberg would be if the great unwashed camped out on his uber rich vast estate

  • Anonymous

    Bullsht

  • http://profiles.google.com/blaise.pscl Blaise Pascal

    Agreed.  Usually it’s the ones with a point, not a bunch of libtards repeating each other.

  • Anonymous

    Did Bloomberg go visit the OWS bunch to wipe their bottoms and blow their noses?

  • Anonymous

    accept all the astro turf money they were getting from Soros.

  • Anonymous

    Unsubstantiated.  Evidence, please?  

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