I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, Mikey,
And tell me, who do you love?
Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) –1956
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GOV BLASTS ‘NASTY’ MIKE
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
The New York Post
June 16, 2008
June 16, 2008 — Mayor Bloomberg is a nasty, untrustworthy, tantrum-prone liar who “has little use” for average New Yorkers - like the 1,500 workers who would have lost their jobs had OTB closed, a furious Gov. Paterson has said privately.
“He appears to be self-destructing,” the governor said.
According to a source with firsthand knowledge of Paterson’s comments, the governor said that during talks last week on OTB’s future, Bloomberg threw the same kind of bizarre tantrums that disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been known for.
“He has the same kind of anger that reminds you of Spitzer,” Paterson said. “I think he’s starting to be concerned that he can’t get anything done.”
The governor charged that Bloomberg has repeatedly misrepresented the facts to the point that “you can’t trust him.”
The normally even-tempered Paterson leveled the explosive charges in private conversations this weekend after a bitter confrontation with the mayor on the pending state takeover of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corp., the source said.
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