Earlier this week, Mike Bloomberg discovered there was a 'crisis of affordability' in New York. Today, he's discovered that there's a dropout crisis,
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supported the party and the president whose policies have hurt this city.
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He's put tens of millions of dollars on the air trying to persuade people that he's a nonpartisan kind of guy. But when you support George W. Bush, when you support a conservative Republican Congress, when you support George Pataki -- all of whose policies have been hurting this city, all 8.1 million of us -- he is in no way a Democrat.
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