Though De Blasio’s friends say he is at once principled and practical:
Posted: December 23rd, 2014 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"People close to de Blasio also said he supported the Garner protesters not because he backed their position, but because he wanted to avoid antagonizing them in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict the officer who killed Garner.
. . . by flying coach:
Posted: December 15th, 2014 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"Notoriously late Mayor Bill de Blasio kept more than 100 people waiting at the gate to board a JetBlue flight from JFK Airport to Puerto Rico last month because he was running late and had the plane held for him, DNAinfo New York has learned.
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It is unclear why the mayor was late for the plane, but his NYPD security personnel had to radio the airline security to hold it for him, sources said.
Bill’s bold progressive vision:
Posted: November 19th, 2014 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"For Mayor Bill de Blasio, on a daylong tour of Washington on Wednesday, no topic seemed too big to tackle. “I think,” the mayor mused during a morning appearance here, “the American dream has ceased to function for a lot of families.”
Eleven months into his term as New York City’s mayor, Mr. de Blasio has no dearth of headaches at home: bumpy poll numbers, the departure of a key aide under a cloud of personal problems, and a tendency toward tardiness that led him to miss the most important moment of a memorial service last week for victims of a plane crash.
But the mayor on display here on Wednesday looked unruffled by his recent troubles — and undeterred in his efforts to raise his national profile as a lodestar of the left.
The story that keeps getting worse:
Posted: November 18th, 2014 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"Mayor Bill de Blasio turned up 30 minutes late for an NYPD boat waiting to take him from Gracie Mansion to the Rockaways for last week’s solemn ceremony to remember the victims of Flight 587, DNAinfo New York has learned.
The mayor was scheduled to embark at 8:05 a.m. Wednesday and the boat had been in place for half-an-hour before that, sources said. But he didn’t get to the boat until 8:35 a.m.
De Blasio’s press aides initially blamed the delay on “heavy fog,” which they said made the normally 35-minute trip take 50 minutes.
But sources said the fog had virtually no impact on the trip.
“The fog played a minimal, if any, role,” a law enforcement source said.
After he’s done being “repulsed” maybe the mayor can also explain who or what is actually being “smeared,” versus simply reported on, and not because she’s an “adviser” but rather because she’s in the high profile position of getting paid $170,000 to be the chief of staff to his wife, hardly a typical “public servant”:
Posted: November 17th, 2014 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"We’ve seen this — we saw this in the 1950s, we’ve seen this throughout the history of this country. If someone wants to smear people, and use that for political purposes, there’s a pretty easy playbook for doing it. It’s repulsive, but it’s become quite common. The idea is that for those of us who have a sense of mission, we’re not going to let it stop us. So, character assassination happens every day in public life. What’s sad is when it goes beyond the boundaries of the public servant, and starts to be something that could include anyone they ever met — any family member, anyone they’re romantically involved with, their children.
