New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a national hero, not the wannabe fascist overseer of an emerging nanny state as his critics maintain.  Sigh.  Had the HispanicLatino community a leader with the stature and political and financial standing of a Bloomberg and his bravura!  Bloomberg, of course, has taken aggressive stances on smoking and other public health issues, and he now wants to eliminate the super-sized sodas ballooning the national waistline.  Some of the criticism coming his way so far has not come from the seriously overweight HispanicLatino community.

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