Fed Up New Yorkers has released an Open Letter to New Yorkers, a preamble to what the contributors call “our review of Michael Bloomberg's ruinous eight-years a mayor of New York City.” According to the writers, “It describes the facts of that record in detail and contrasts them with the spin that the mayor and his publicists have employed to tell a different story.”

The open letter publicly thanks Democratic candidate Bill Thompson “for having the courage and determination to take on New York's richest, most powerful man and his vast network of allies.”

Michael Bloomberg v. The People of New York City: The Spin v. The Facts, is  a clear-minded, sober account of what the publisher Neil Fabricant calls “Bloomberg's Luxury City” which is “controlled and managed for the benefit of the rich.” 

In the introduction to this spin-free document, Neil Fabricant wrote, “We believe that if New Yorkers understood the truth of the past eight years and the consequences of another four, they would not go along.”

Michael Bloomberg v. The People of New York City outlines a litany of abuses including increased debt obligations and spending, higher taxes and “off budget borrowing,” a “war on the middle class,” and the “turning over parks to private developers.” The document describes civil liberties violations – the anti- Iraq War protest, the Republican National Convention, “blanket restrictions on the right to assemble for peaceful protest,” and trespassing arrests. It examines Mayoral control and “gay rights flip flops.” The writers count a minimum of 96,187 rent-stabilized, “once affordable” apartments lost between 2002 and 2008 and note the marked  increase in homelessness. There is a thorough review of “eminent domain abuse” under the guise of development, with numerous neighborhoods – including Coney Island, Chinatown, West Harlem, The Fashion District, and Willets Point – on the administration's hit list. Atlantic Yards, the Yankee and Mets stadiums are used as case studies.

One chapter is dedicated to Bloomberg's crowning achievement: the nullification of two elections in which NYC voters overwhelmingly made a two term limit for citywide elected officials law. 

The underlying message: stay away from the polls next Tuesday at your own, and the City's, peril.