[NEW YORK - The ads for] Lennon, ... His words. His music. His story.

New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

This is 10 times worse than New York City. The devastation is in a much larger area,

If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?

The bottom line on all of this is that, increasingly, election systems are so sloppy in New York that you cannot tell where the incompetence ends and the fraud could begin.

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.