New York City's Mayor's Race officially Moves Into Weird Gear.

Joe Lhota's political bio: son and grandson of a New York City police officer and fire fighter pledges to cut taxes for billionaires and slash wages and benefits for city employees.

Wow. His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

That awkward moment when a man isn't sure if he did a number two.

They say he only lacks charisma. A man can be short and dumpy and bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. If he's Joe Lhotta, women will like him about as much as a man who leaves the toilet seat up. Seriously. Joe Lhota has about as much fire as the 1962 Mets, and will be lucky if he finishes the season with the same winning percentage.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing. And taxing can be a good thing. Such as taxing billionaires to pay for after school programs. In fact, if most people new that teenagers were at school all day before their parents came home from work, they would find such news downright relaxing. 

Public education is a good thing, and too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Every child in New York has pre-school? Wonderful!

Joe Lhota talks about success. He climbed the ladder of success all right, wrong by wrong.

Cablevision CEO. MTA chairman. From one legalized monopoly to the other.

Oh, but he has experience!

Doing what? When we say Lhota at the debate last night, he looked like somebody who wasn't sure if he had farted or pooped his pants.

And apparently, after yesterday's Federal Appeals Court Ruling, anybody who lives in New York City's media market is going to see a lot more of J Lho in action. Basically, a millionaire in Alabama decided he wanted to contribute $200,000 to J Lho's Super Pac. The New York Times has the details here.

Ironically, as much as I despise unlimited corporate influence on political candidates and their campaigns (aka "bribery,") I do take comfort in knowing that the millions of dollars that J Lho spends will do nothing to stop his inevitable defeat one week and a half from now.

Not only is J Lho down 2-1 in all major polls, but this is a man who said he would run over the most adorable pair of kittens in the world. Even most cold-hearted people would have the common sense to keep something like that a secret if they wanted to win you over.

Why did the scary candidate say he would run us over with a subway train?

And that's Lhotta: There more there is to see, the less there is to like. You can't sell bad product, and right-wing millionaires should have learned that with Mitt Romney. Oh the irony: The party that brands itself as flag-bearers of fiscal responsibility can't even invest in a winning candidate!

But this race is about more than Lhotta. In a week and half, he will fade back into obscurity, where he belongs. Hopefully, in a year and half, every child in New York will have the oppurtunity to pre-school and get a head start life.