Oh. That Was Rev Billy at Last Night's Mayoral Debate

I listened to the first half hour of Tuesday night's debate between NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and mayoral candidate City Comptroller William Thompson on WNYC. 

"What are you doing here, Mike? We voted for term limits!" On the radio it sounded like it was quite a ruckus.

Turns out it was Green Party Candidate for Mayor Rev. Billy Talen.

Talen was not speaking from the stage, but from the fifth row in the audience. Though Talen will appear on the ballot in November along with six other candidates for Mayor he was not invited to participate in the debate. Only Mike Bloomberg and Democratic nominee Bill Thompson were allowed to participate in the one hour debate.

According to Talen: "the missing voice tonight was the voice of New York City's neighborhoods, which Bloomberg and the Democrats have victimized in their lust for the bubble-based economies of tourism, chain stores and Wall Street. We will not forget about Bloomberg's dismissal of term limits. He cannot spend enough to erase Democracy."