When parents, teachers, and students protested school closings and questioned Cathie Black's qualifications, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "it's embarassing for New York City, New York State, for America.  This is not democracy, letting people yell and scream."

Mayor Bloomberg, this is a democracy.  In the United States of America we have the freedom to speak our minds and to peacefully assemble.  With a lack of understanding of the foundation of our country and obvious lack of Constitutional knowledge, we the people of New York City, ask the Mayor to respectfully resign and leave our city.

Mayor Bloomberg's latest budget cuts 4,666 teachers, closes down firehouses, ends child care for thousands of children, and closes 100 senior centers.  It's obvious the Mayor cares nothing for the average working and middle class.  He must go.

Also, having appointed a Chancellor of Education with absolutely no teaching experience who has shown a poor understanding of the school system and has disrespected the people of New York, we also demand that the mayor take Cathie Black with him.