They know they can’t steal this one, so they are trying to stop it completely:
Suck it up, snowflake.
Fitzgerald wouldn’t offer an opinion on whether Reynolds’ ruling was a correct interpretation of the law, but said it creates headaches for local elections officials, particularly with possible overlapping nomination paper and absentee ballot deadlines for the August primary and November general election. He said Reynolds didn’t consider those practical effects in her ruling. “The logistics of this is very messy,” Fitzgerald said. “I don’t think Judge Reynolds considered that at all how this would transpire in the real world. … The average taxpayer is going to be like, ‘You’re kidding me.’”
It is not that hard to hold an election. Unless, of course, you don’t want to hold an election. Then it becomes very hard. And I’ve searched the law high and low and I have yet to find an exemption for a town clerk’s headaches. Try an aspirin and do your job.
A glass-half-full take on Zuccotti Park clearout
Ezra Klein thinks the mayor did the movement a favor by attacking the OWS encampment, because the attack reinvigorated the occupiers. More here.