F*#% You Bloomberg Benefit Party - Friday Night

Make plans now:

Join activists and artists from around New York City to celebrate the end of an error! Bloomberg may have reigned for 12 years and brought new levels of policing and market speculation that have torn communities apart. But his reign is over now, and we're still here.

Join us for a night of music and dancing. We have amazing acts all night, so check out the line-up here to make sure you don't miss anything:

7pm - Doors (bgm by The Uzupisians)
8pm - Kings
Bells Roar
8:30pm - Mirah
10:00pm - Rebel Diaz
11:00pm - Dance all night to DJ Ripley and DJ Dirty Finger

Hear your favorite NYC visionaries roast Bloomberg in between acts! Take a swing at our Bloomberg pinata! Cheap drinks and treats!

All proceeds go to Milk Not Jails. We're trying to raise money to expand our dairy marketing business into a full-fledged worker cooperative, owned and run by formerly incarcerated people. Help us raise money for our on-job training and leadership program.

Doors at 7:00pm / Show Starts at 8:00pm

$10-25 sliding scale.

Tickets here. 

Bloomberg Gets Testy Over Mayor's Race Questions

More and more frequently, Bloomberg shows the real him:

Mayor Bloomberg declared during a testy exchange with reporters Thursday that the race to succeed him is not interesting and therefore he is not paying any attention to it.

The billionaire mayor, who said this month he had decided not to make an endorsement in the race because it would be a distraction, first grew exasperated with the press about non-campaign questions he was being asked during a news conference Thursday.

He dismissed one topic as a "dumb question" and scolded another reporter that "we're here to have legitimate questions," before growing more irritated when NBC 4 New York's Melissa Russo attempted to get his thoughts on the mayoral race.

"Literally, miss, I have not listened to one campaign speech, or seen one ad or watched one debate," he said. "I've got to worry about running the city, so I don't know what people are saying."

When asked why he isn't paying attention, he said "because I don't find it interesting."

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When asked Thursday why he gets so worked up about campaign questions, the mayor insisted he wasn't angry. He said the reporters who cover him should know that he doesn't comment on the race, and should stop asking.

"Every press conference, all you want to do is ask about things you know I'm not going to say," he said.

Then, like a parent threatening to stop the car, he went on:

"I'm not going to bother with the press conferences. There's just no reason to do it," he said.

Reporters should "restrict the questions to things that are germane to what our administration is doing," he added.

Clearly it bothers him that he will no longer be the center of attention.

Not a surprise from a guy who feels the need to put BLOOMBERG on everything he owns.