Poll: New Yorkers Want Horse-Drawn Carriages to Stay

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JILL COLVIN

New York voters are overwhelmingly opposed to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to ban horse-drawn carriages, according to a new poll out today.

The Quinnipiac survey found that 64 percent of those polled want to see the horses stay, versus 24 percent who want to ban them.

“On an issue that has generated an immense amount of interest – with celebrities speaking loudly on both sides – voters reject almost 3-1 Mayor de Blasio’s opposition to horse-drawn carriages,” pollster Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

When it comes to education, the poll also found that voters here prefer Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to pay for universal pre-K using existing state money, over Mr. de Blasio’s plan to raise taxes on the highest income earners, despite months of lobbying and demonstrations by the mayor and his allies.

http://politicker.com/2014/03/poll-new-yorkers-want-horse-drawn-carriages-to-stay/