specialK wrote:
The Mayor's first responsibility is to protect the interest of New Yorkers, and I think he is right on the money (ha ha) about that.

From the NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/225983p-194108c.html):
"Let protesters walk on grass, majority of NY'ers say"
Seventy-one percent of the city’s registered voters think protesters should be allowed to demonstrate in Central Park during the Republican National Convention, and 11 percent plan to go to a demonstration themselves, according to a poll released Thursday.

Most New Yorkers, 81 percent, approve of lawful demonstrations during the convention, and 68 percent approve of nonviolent civil disobedience, the Quinnipiac University Poll found. Nearly all disapprove of violent protests, according to the poll.

“The city is rolling out the red carpet for the Republican delegates, but most New Yorkers would roll out the green carpet of Central Park for the anti-Republican demonstrators,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

“Lawful demonstrations — even nonviolent civil disobedience — are a time-honored tradition and still widely supported,” he said. “But 19 out of 20 New Yorkers draw the line at violence.”

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