NYC Mayor Bloomberg to 'help lead the charge for the New York State Dream Act'

Today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave his State of the City speech. He said:

Link to full text of speech: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012...f-city-speech/

how is it that GOP states like North Carolina has as much national political influence as states like New York State despite New York having multiple times the population than any GOP state.

if representatives were chosen based purely population and not based on states, DA would have passed already and the top 1% would have harder time buying the GOP politicians since GOP politicians would have less influence on the gov't

^ Congressional Representatives are allocated based on population. New York has 27 while North Carolina has 13.
The GOP also have big population states (Texas, Georgia) so it evens out.

in the Senate it does not

he should have said it's about the money not the children

correct. that's the way to get republican support.

Yeah we tried that. We're never gonna get their support either with sob stories or factual data.

yay we're doomed!