Nanny Bloomberg isn’t happy that he can’t regulate his soda ban in grocery stores since they are regulated at the state level, so he’s calling on the State of NY to adopt his soda ban:

CBS NEWS – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is thinking bigger when it comes to his upcoming soda ban. He’s calling on New York State to enact his proposal that will cap the size of sugary drinks sold at restaurants and food courts starting this March.

Beginning next month, the city plans to restrict restaurants, delis, sports venues, movie theaters and many other eateries that fall under the jurisdiction of the city’s health department from selling some sugar-laden beverages larger than 16-ounces in size. Refills will be permitted depending on the establishment. The limits also do not apply to milk-based and alcoholic beverages.

Supermarkets and convenience stores are exempt because they’re regulated by the state, not the city.

Bloomberg , however, said at an unrelated news conference Monday that “the state should do exactly the same thing in stores.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office had no immediate comment.

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Nicholas bennett
Nicholas bennett

poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king wont be satisfied till he rules everything

Joengima
Joengima

I want to know how many jobs are going to be lost because of Nanny Bloomberg.

You know maybe it's time to play the Liberal card and show the victims of Liberal Policies to the public.

bjohnson55
bjohnson55

Little Nanny BOO BOO wants to control New York State from his penthouse office in New York City. This guy has a power complex in a bad way. When are you New Yorkers going to grow a spine and throw him out?

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

New York city has got to be the laughing stock of the country these days! Bloomberg is a puzzy and so are all the wimps in NYC! I hope you all enjoy the tofu and water because if Bloomy gets his way, that's all you will be allowed to eat.

sigelitedark
sigelitedark

Bloomberg is a joke. Just last week, he announced he wanted to ban EPS (styrofoam) cups and containers because of health impacts and its cost of recycling. Forcing NYC consumers, and now maybe of the whole state, to have to purchase smaller PET bottles of pop will exponentially increase the stream of plastic waste that now needs to be recycled along with the increase in cost to haul away this added material. This would be a boon for food retailers because of their increased margins, but the NYC trashcans will overflow that much faster.

JungleCogs
JungleCogs

I love the name "Soda Jerk"; it fits him so well.

bongobear
bongobear

This guy is seriously in need of having his butt whipped.

bjohnson55
bjohnson55

True that statement right there!!

Mark Adam
Mark Adam

Now, are the rest of New Yorkers going to put up with this nonsense? When is Bloomberg going to get some serious push-back?

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Until NY implements a "ban" on Bloomberg, they will continue to have nonsense like this to deal with. What an utter waste of time and resources.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

Let's see now, a dictatorial mayor who is banning salts, sodas, and trans fats, all in a state where it literally is a crime to own most guns. I'm not sure why anybody would want to live in New York these days, except probably criminals. They will be the only ones not having to follow any of these new laws, so they should be happy with their new-found celebrity status. Just shows you how far gone the people in New York are that they just sit there and take this.

snowshooze
snowshooze

Somebody quick tell Bloomberg:

One single packet of Kool-Aid makes 1/2 gallon of sugary drink!!!

This is absolutley un-acceptable and probably dangerous.

Think of the children.

mediaaccess1
mediaaccess1

They added new "junk food" taxes in Hungary.

white531
white531

Listen to me for a moment. Don't hate the man. He is a sentinel for what they have planned. Listen to everything he says. Watch what he does. Plan accordingly.

Go2Blazes
Go2Blazes

Three words: RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

vinny
vinny

New York will be completely unlivable.

Always1776
Always1776

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis

aPLWBinAK
aPLWBinAK

I don't think Mayor Bloomers could care less about the size of your Pepsi. He's obviously a statist, and I think he's using these idiotic bans of his as a 'frog in the boiling pot' tool. He can't drop a blanket of Communism down on the Big Apple all at once. He's doing it incrementally, to slowly get the masses used to the ideas of Big Gubmint controlling every aspect of your lives one small step at a time. Every time he reveals his latest ban, there is the expected wailing and gnashing of teeth, and howls of outrage, but no real action to stop him.....and then it slowly fades into yesterdays news, and he'll wait just long enough, and then....voila'.....another small part of your live is deemed unacceptable, and his next ban is proposed.....

Nicholas bennett
Nicholas bennett

we have a winner,,,right on....lets see blommie was a dem, then a pub, now indy, back to dem...now king this is what happens when you have to much dam money...you wanna play chess with human beings, like georgie porgie soros....the devils friggin spawn

Dick Parker
Dick Parker

Nanny Nancy Bloomberg can go to hell. How dare you tell me what I can do, say, or think.

There is something seriously wrong with all you idiots trying to impose your will on those who disagree with you. Who died and made you Lord and Saviour! I have only one, pal, and it sure as hell isn't you............. And never will be........... moron!

Randi Starr
Randi Starr

He so badly wants to be queen of New York and make declarations!

Sunnny1
Sunnny1

Don't you wonder who in the soda industry hurt his feelings? Waaaaah!!! No soda for anyone!

Marridge
Marridge

I want him to keep it up. To such an extent that New Yorkers are going to get so frigging tired of him that they will deal with him one way or the other. Throw him out on his a$$.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

Let's challenge the hypocrite. If he is so concerned about health he should ban drinking alcohol and smoking in NYC.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

He's making too much tax money off alcohol and cigarettes to do that. Cigarettes are something like $70.00 a carton in NYC. Nearly twice what they are here in Florida.

When the NYC tourists leave Florida, they fill the trunks of their cars with cartons of cigarettes, to keep from having to pay 'their fair share' of the taxes these hypocrites voted for, in the first place. Now they will just add 24 oz. soda bottles to the load, if they are 'banned' in stores but they will go right on voting 'Bloomers' into office.

Ray
Ray

Amazing. I take this the way many military took those who protested them, "I may not agree with what they say, but I fought to protect their right to say it." I don't drink cola, however I do not think it should be taken away from those who want it.

This also shows how liberals think, if they don't like something, they take your right to have it away also.

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

If the people of NY do not kick this tyrant to the curb they deserve everything he does to them.

This man is the worst of the worst, he and his ilk should be shunned by any society, let a lone our society where freedom is supposed to be. Where are the protest in the streets to have this piece of work committed. He is a bully and should be smacked down, his play ground tactics to control the play ground should not be tolerated.

Take a stand NY, this type never rests until you submit completely, then you are of no use… fight back while you can!

white531
white531

Welcome to Socialism.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Socialism? More like a dictatorship!

Jim James
Jim James

Why do I have a feeling he's got a crapload of money tied up in "SodaStream" stock?

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

lol probably!

Jim James
Jim James

It makes sense. Buffett owns the railroad that the Keystone Pipeline *would* have been competing against.

57thunderbird
57thunderbird

Why on God's green earth would anybody want to live in a totalitarian city like New York City?I have deep concerns for the residents of that city's mental capacity.

OneThinDime
OneThinDime

Okay let me see if I have this right. Sodas > 20 oz = bad but Alcoholic Beverages > 20 oz = Good. Wonder when MN's Gov Dayton the Drunk will be visiting Bloomers in NYC

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Well, except for the Gov. Dayton part, that's what I was thinking too!

OneThinDime
OneThinDime

Dayton was known as a drunk in the US Senate too!

OneThinDime
OneThinDime

So ABC has a new reality show called Splash! Too bad Kennedy is 6' under, he could have relived his most famous get-away and get-out-of-jail-free crime

3seven77
3seven77

Ted Kennedy actually named one of his dogs "Splash".

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

It's ok to speak ill of the dead when the dead made others dead before he got dead..... yup!

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

I can't take credit for that one. Got it from Rush years ago. Splash Kennedy and Sheets Byrd were the best names ever.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

All I could think of was Splash Kennedy, but I know it's not nice to speak ill about the dead. sigh.