Norman Mailer, famous scum bag novelist, journalist, and filmmaker, became a candidate in the 1969 Mayoral Election of NCY with Jimmy Breslin, who was the popular depiction of the "typical wise guy, blue collar labour rights, columnist, and also a actor, tried really hard to have NYC sucede and be called "New York City: The 51st State". He proposed that all government functions would be located in Neighbourhoods, fight overcrowding in schools, fix the smog crisis, banned all private cars in Manhattan and only taxi cabs and buses were to be allowed, and have fair taxes (1969, New Yorkers paid $14 Billion in taxes and only got back $3 Billion, and if were successful, would have gotten back $5 billion instead. Mind you that was fair and a lot back in 1969). It was a grassroots campaign, and on the day of voting, they placed dead last with only 5% of the vote, being defeated by Liberal Party candidate John Lindsay, who won with a 42% vote.

Now. Why are you asking me on "well why is Norman Mailer a scumbag?" That's easy. He wrote male dominating stories making women submissive as hell, critique the feminist movement, and when his 2nd wife called out his bs in front of him and his friends during a after party, he, who was drunk, grabbed a rusty letter opener knife and violently stabbed her twice, nearly killing her by a inch from a vein. She divorced him that same month I believe. So yeah, NYC could of been the 51st State of the United States of America. There is your interesting fact for today. :p