- Title: USA: NEW YORKERS VOTE FOR THEIR NEW MAYOR TO SUCEED RUDOLPH GIULIANI
- Date: 6th November 2001
- Summary: (W5) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 6, 2001) 1. SLV /PAN INTERIOR POLLING STATION WITH PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE TO VOTE 0.07 2. MV MAN GOING INTO POLLING BOOTH 0.14 3. MV NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI ARRIVING TO VOTE; GIULIANI REGISTERING (3 SHOTS) 0.32 4. MV MEDIA 0.35 5. MV GIULIANI GOING INSIDE VOTING BOOTH/ MEDIA/ MV GIULIANI COMING OUT OF VOTING BOOTH (3 SHOTS) 0.48 6. SLV GIULIANI WALKING DOWN STREET TO MEDIA 0.56 7. SMV MEDIA AT OPEN AIR PRESS CONFERENCE 1.00 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI SAYING "Well I'm urging people to vote for Mike Bloomberg. I think Mike Bloomberg is ideally qualified to run the city at this very critical time. Mike Bloomberg's business background, the fact that he is a self-made man and has had enormous success in business qualifies him to be Mayor of New York City at a time when businesses are considering leaving the city." 1.21 9. WIDE MARK GREEN (DEMOCRAT) AT POLLING STATION 1.26 10. VARIOUS, GREEN REGISTERING TO VOTE/ MEDIA (3 SHOTS) 1.39 11. SMV , GREEN GOING INTO THE POLLING BOOTH TO 1.46 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARK GREEN, SAYING "I just hope that everybody turns out to vote because the stakes are so high, the race so close and the contrast is so sharp between a democratic advocate who's been in every neighbourhood and helped families in every neighbourhood and a republican billionaire who is out of touch with our neighbourhoods who hasn't one accomplishment in public life and whose slogan is 'Money Talks'." 2.11 13. SLV GREEN WALKING ON STREET 2.18 14. MV MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (REPUBLICAN) AT POLLING STATION GREETING ELECTION STAFF 2.31 15. SMV MEDIA 2.32 16. MV MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ENTERING VOTING 2.37 17. WIDE OF MEDIA WAITING FOR BLOOMBERG 2.40 18. MV BLOOMBERG LEAVING POLLING BOOTH AND POSING FOR MEDIA 2.50 19. SLV MEDIA SURROUNDING BLOOMBERG OUTSIDE POLLING STATION 2.55 20. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIKE BLOOMBERG, SAYING "Take a look at what the problems are for the next four years. It's jobs, it's the economy, it is security and I think that my experience in terms of building a company and managing people through economic trying times and providing leadership to 8,000 employees and a few hundred thousand customers makes me qualified to lead this city forward for this period in time." 3.21 21. SLV BLOOMBERG WALKING ON STREET, GREETING WOMAN 3.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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- Story Text: New Yorkers have cast their votes in a mayoral race
between Democrat Mark Green and Republican Michael Bloomberg
to determine who will replace incumbent Rudolph Giuliani and
lead the city through a crucial period in the wake of the
September 11 attacks.
New Yorkers headed towards the voting booths on Tuesday
(November 6) to elect the next mayor for the city. The battle
to replace Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, widely credited for his
handling of the crisis to date, is between public advocate
Green, a political veteran, and Bloomberg, a billionaire media
mogul who has never before run for public office.
The race turned bitter and unexpectedly close in the
campaign's final days.
The race was overshadowed by the airplane attacks on the
World Trade Center, the anthrax outbreak, and the leadership
of Giuliani, who was won widespread acclaim.
Whoever wins must fill the shoes of Giuliani, who was only
the third Republican elected mayor in 100 years. He was
prevented from running again by term limit laws.
Giuliani, who endorsed fellow Republican Bloomberg, has
also been widely praised for his success fighting crime, and,
more recently, his leadership after the anthrax outbreak and
the attacks in New York which killed some 4,600 people and
battered the city's economy.
Guiliani cast his vote for Bloomberg shortly after 7 am
EDT, and afterwards explained why he thinks Bloomberg is the
right man to replace him.
"Well I'm urging people to vote for Mike Bloomberg. I think
Mike Bloomberg is ideally qualified to run the city at this
very critical time. Mike Bloomberg's business background, the
fact that he is a self-made man and has had enormous success
in business qualifies him to be Mayor of New York City at a
time when businesses are considering leaving the city," said
Giuliani.
Hoping to win last-minute votes before polls opened at 6
a.m. on Tuesday, both candidates ran around-the-clock tours of
the city and showered TV and radio stations with commercials.
Green, 56, led Bloomberg, 59, by double digits in the polls
just two weeks ago in the race to run the biggest city in the
United States, with 8 million people. But that lead
disappeared, leaving the contest too close to call in a city
where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 5-to-1.
Green was accompanied to his voting station by his family.
Green contrasted his candidacy against that of his opponent.
"I just hope that everybody turns out to vote because the
stakes are so high, the race so close and the contrast is so
sharp between a democratic advocate who's been in every
neighbourhood and helped families in every neighbourhood and a
republican billionaire who is out of touch with our
neighbourhoods who hasn't one accomplishment in public life
and whose slogan is 'Money Talks'," said Green.
Four polls since Friday showed Bloomberg, founder of
financial news and information services company Bloomberg LP,
gained support from enough Democrats to turn the race into a
dead heat at 42 percent each.
Bloomberg told a news conference outside his voting station
that his business background is what the city needs at this
time.
"Take a look at what the problems are for the next four
years. It's jobs, it's the economy, it is security and I
think that my experience in terms of building a company and
managing people through economic trying times and providing
leadership to 8,000 employees and a few hundred thousand
customers makes me qualified to lead this city forward for
this period in time," said Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has spent some 50 million United States dollars
of his own money running for mayor, more than anyone in city
election history.
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