A Core Set Of Values And Beliefs That Align With This Administration

They love, love, love that line; I wish someone would finally reveal what it means:

A senior advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio is in a serious relationship with a convicted killer and interstate drug trafficker whose most recent run-in with the law happened late last year — when he nearly ran over a New Jersey police officer while driving her car, records show.

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When contacted about their relationship and McFarlan’s comments, the mayor’s office backed Noerdlinger as a key aide to the administration, but said it did not tolerate derogatory comments about police.

“No one at City Hall condones criminal behavior or disparagement of the NYPD, including Rachel,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Rebecca Katz. “Rachel is her own person. She is a strong, independent woman who possesses a core set of values and beliefs that align with this administration.”

Nelson De Bono, Mayor To The World

Because if there’s one thing voters value, it’s courageously traveling abroad to raise your international profile and speak platitudes to foreign audiences:

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, a virtual unknown not so long ago, is now determined to cultivate a profile on the international stage. And Wednesday brought his biggest foreign splash yet, a trans-Atlantic trip to Manchester, England, where Mr. de Blasio urged Labour Party leaders to adopt his theme of income inequality as they seek to retake 10 Downing Street next year.

Swapping out garbage pickup in Queens for the rarefied air of European politics can be a delicate balance for a mayor, barely nine months into the job, trying to run a city whose social problems are far from solved. Mr. de Blasio’s advisers say he remains focused on municipal matters above all else.

That you can accomplish all this while keeping a deft handle on things back home is even more inspiring:

A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2, the winter-weather prognosticator died of internal injuries — and then the coverup began, The Post has learned.

Staten Island Zoo officials went to great lengths to hide the death from the public and keep secret the fact that “Chuck” was actually “Charlotte,” a female imposter, sources said Wednesday.

The stand-in was found dead in her enclosure at the Staten Island Zoo on Feb. 9 — and a necropsy determined she died from “acute internal injuries,” sources said.

She had fallen nearly 6-feet when the mayor lost his grip during the Groundhog Day photo-op. Sources said her injuries were consistent with a fall.

Oh, The Things That We Put Our Hands On . . .

When I dip you dip we dip:

On housing policy, where Mr. de Blasio has spoken of a significant break from the Bloomberg years, the new administration has also strained to identify differences on some projects. At a groundbreaking in April for the first phase of an affordable housing development in East New York, Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio said he planned to count 278 units from the complex, negotiated under Mr. Bloomberg, toward his goal of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years.

“The things that we put our hands on and help to achieve, we are counting,” Mr. de Blasio said then.

Asked at the same event whether there were significant differences between the terms negotiated at the complex by the last administration and the final plan, Mr. de Blasio’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, Alicia Glen, said no.

I’ve Always Said That Organizing Is About More Than Just Winning An Election . . .

Organizing is about empowering people to engage with their neighbors and create real, sustainable change in their communities:

Mayor Bill de Blasio, irate after a police union president called on national Democrats to keep the 2016 Democratic National Convention out of Brooklyn, quickly ordered aides to contact elected officials to denounce the union leader’s open letter, sources say.

Once Mr. de Blasio told reporters yesterday afternoon that a letter penned by Edward Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, was “irresponsible” and “fear-mongering,” aides to the mayor harangued local elected officials to prepare statements blasting Mr. Mullins’ letter, which ran in the New York Post and New York Times. The effort was meant to show the public that the city’s political establishment–including elected officials supportive of cops–was firmly in Mr. de Blasio’s corner.

On Humility

“Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters today that he is a ‘humble’ man when explaining why he allows taxpayers to foot the bill for his personal transportation expenses.”