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At a post-election forum at the New School's Center for New York City Affairs last fall, Thompson's campaign manager Eduardo Castell, explained that "… to wrap that around Bloomberg, I think was going to be both difficult and could be dangerous in a way that you’re getting into, again, what is then a sort of very racialized sort of issue. … And it could cut both ways, and we knew that. It could cut both ways."

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"Certainly a surge in folks who would have been, African-American voters, let’s say, in particular, would have been helpful," Castell continued. "But once you press that button, you have to be really, really, really careful."