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   mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

   Definitely a class act. It’s too bad we don’t have more politicians of his caliber. RIP Ed.
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   Ed may have been both Loved, and Hated, but he was NEVER Boring!
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   Omnius said, 4 months ago

   Rest in Peace Ed Koch, sad the NYC mayors after you have not lived up to your standards.
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   mshefler said, 4 months ago

   I’ll always remember him for the phrase “If it’s brown, flush it down; if it’s yellow, let it mellow.”
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   Zuhlamon said, 4 months ago

   I wondered who’d be the first to post the ubiquitous clouds and Pearly Gates ’toon.
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   swr said, 4 months ago

   He was his own man. And that is a rare thing today. God’s Speed Mayor Koch.
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   swr said, 4 months ago

   Oh, and just to keep my crumdgion cerficate up. I have to point out that Jews don’t believe in a heven, or afterlife. But the good mayor did alright with this one.
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Bye, Ed. Never been to New York and never plan on going there.
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   echoraven said, 4 months ago

   @masterskrain

   well said.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    When he asked me that I said “How’re YOU doin?”
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    If Ed Koch didn’t offend you, deeply, then you just didn’t spend any time asking “What’re you doin?”
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    Ed Koch was one meanspirited little pricker bush. If he were upright and Mario Cuomo was being burried, you better know that Koch would be spitting on his grave! So there is no reason for anybody to hold back on Ed.
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    I liked him! But he was what I’ve said and worse! And better. But more worse.
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    churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    I don’t understand why I’m unable to post my full reply, which contained quotes from the following “obituary” in the Gay City Times. (GC suddenly doesn’t like my formatting? The word “gay”? Or will my post suddenly show up 4Xs?)
    
    In any case, read the link, scroll down to where they discuss Koch’s run for Mayor against Cuomo in ‘77, and you’ll learn why there was no love lost between Koch and both Cuomos.
    
    Ed Koch: 12 Years as Mayor, A Lifetime in the Closet
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    @churchillwasright

    I know the history, sir.
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    Ed Koch could and would hold a grude and he even passed that grudge from Mario to Andrew.
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    It was a flaw in Koch’s character that he held grudges.
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    My point in bringing that up is that it’s “Ok” for me to be “disrespectful” of the dead, because Ed Koch would be. (I’ve heard him be so, although I can’t recall the exact circumstances, because it was no great surprise that he was being so, just part of who he was.)
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    Part of Koch’s politics was being non politic. I salute that as I say Koch was the type of guy you love to hate and you hate to love and you love to love and you hate to hate. On balance he’s harder to hate than he is easy to love.
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    You’d think “Ah, he can take it!” But in fact, he couldn’t. If you pissed him off once, you pissed him off for life. Even if you made it good, you were still a guy who had pissed him off once before!
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    churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

    First of all, I’m a born and bred NY’er. So I know what he did to improve my city. How about you?
    
    Second of all, Koch was both a pragmatic Democrat and a pragmatic politician, more than I can say for the current crop. (Yes, until 2002, I also considered myself a pragmatic Democrat, and Koch (and Clinton, and Gore) always got my vote. Today I consider Democrats the Party of liars and hypocrites. But I digress…)
    
    “Koch was non politic…, love to hate, hate to love, love to hate,hate to love…”
    
    This is just gibberish. There were only two factions that hated Koch. Union leadership and Radical Gays. Most NYers loved him. He saved us from Abe Beame’s bankruptcy. And he told it like it was. Then Dinkin’s F’d it up again.
    
    But then, from someone “from the left”, I’m not surprised you give a pass to (both) Cuomos for waging a campaigning against a “homo”. Selective indignation has become the hallmark of your party. And then there’s the fact that he endorsed Booosh. That must have really breezed your shorts. (Oh, and he was waaaay to much a supporter of Israel. Another no-no in the New Democratic Party.)
    
    BTW, I had the pleasure of working with Hizzonor once, and he was a class act. I’ll miss him.
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