heh heh heh...
Posted on 09/23/2013 3:20:08 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
The mayoral candidate who often calls New York a “tale of two cities” has a personal tale of three names.
Most New Yorkers have come to know Bill de Blasio as the Democratic candidate with the affable family, including a teenage son who has been featured in campaign ads.
Left unsaid in the candidate’s official biography is that Bill de Blasio is his third legal name.
The man who could become the city’s 109th mayor was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961, in Manhattan, his birth certificate shows.
In 1983, fresh out of New York University, he petitioned a Manhattan judge to formally change his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, according to legal records.
And in December 2001 he petitioned a judge in Brooklyn to formally change his name again, this time to Bill de Blasio.
In recent years the candidate has, at times, talked about the evolution of his name, saying it reflected a personal journey that involved his parents’ divorce and an identification with his mother’s family, the de Blasios.
A Daily News examination of court records and other public documents provided new details of this evolution. However, the de Blasio campaign declined to answer a series of questions submitted by The News about the name changes. The News also contacted de Blasio’s older brother, Steven Wilhelm, 65, a journalist in Seattle, to ask about his sibling’s identities. “I need to check with the campaign,” Wilhelm said.
heh heh heh...
This loser sounds a lot like recently termed out leftist Los Angeles mayor Tony Villar. Oops, I mean Antonio Villariagosa. Combining his wife's name with his... Only to see her divorce his ass after his fling with a news babette.
Barry Soetero, Steve Dunham, Sobarkah, Hussein
This just in, Bill De Blasio has always been the late actress Bea Arthur in drag, she faked her death to devote herself full time to De Blasio’s career.
Afro kid is a test tube baby, the sperm donor was Julius Erving.
hahaha
Paris kind has that Rashida Jones look.
Still, I’d figure on her looking a little Blacker if she really was Jackson’s kid. Maybe he bleached his DNA too.
Assuming of course he wasn’t killed and replaced by a space alien in the 80’s .
Come to think of it, given this site’s obsession with “Breaking Bad” I should have added “Heisenberg”.
I think he deserves to be pilloried for his politics, rather than this.
But this name changing is politics, too, just as much as DeBlasio's prominent display of his two "black" children.
If you want to get elected to citywide office in NYC, you're much better off with an Italian sounding surname than a German sounding one. Aside from that, the name changes may have concealed some things in his background under a former name that he might wish to kept under wraps.
Radicals have a knack for this kind of political gamesmanship. Assisted by the acquiescence of the MSM, the ignorant masses are all too often duped by it.
Desperation on the part of whom?
This article was written by a left-leaning rag, the New York Daily News. Doesn't seem that DeBlasio's GOP opponent, Joe Lhota, whose name is conspicuously absent in the article, discovered the name changes and called them to their attention.
With DeBlasio supposedly having a large lead, Lhota needs something of a bombshell to shake up the race. This can be a springboard for him if he can connect the name changes to a larger pattern of deceit on the part of his opponent.
The Italians in Staten Island didn’t go for de Blasio. Little map in the WSJ told me. Gee, wonder why.
New York Times had a front-page story about de Blasio’s far-left-wing roots, couple of days ago.
He’s a deceiver in more ways than one. Immediately started talking about crime the minute the primary was over, after trashing the cops all through the campaign.
Watch out for him.
“But this name changing is politics, too...”
I think you’re right that name-changing can be political, but I don’t see his name change as anything but what he claims it to be, that he was closer to his mother’s family, who raised him, than to his father, who he says was distant and troubled from his war experiences. There might be a connection between that feeling for his father and his politics, but it seems to me that’s in the realm of murky psychological guesswork, and there is so much to question him on in his public statements and political stances that there wouldn’t ever need to be a reason to go there.
“If you want to get elected to citywide office in NYC, you’re much better off with an Italian sounding surname than a German sounding one.”
An Italian surname in New York may be better politically, at least as far as votes from some constituencies, but not all. Blacks and many Hispanics, for instance, don’t always have positive feelings for Italian-American New Yorkers, in my experience, and they’re a large part of the city. And I really don’t see a political plan behind his name change, just what he says it was. It pays to be vigilant though, as you’re being. I think those resources are better spent reviewing his public life rather than his private life though.
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