Posted on 01/07/2015 8:19:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s an old saying that it’s “better to be lucky than good,” but what if you are unlucky and bad?
That would describe Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in the span of a few hours went from defiant to deflated. He started out crowing and ended up eating crow.
The mayor emerged from hiding Monday to use the release of 2014 crime stats to heap more abuse on cops, saying a decline of 4.6 percent in major felonies meant he was right to demand both a “safe city” and a “fairer city.” He also blasted officers for turning their backs on him at Sunday’s funeral for Officer Wenjian Liu, calling them “disrespectful” and saying “it defies a lot of what we all feel is the right and decent thing to do.”
Hours later, he was at a Bronx hospital visiting two undercover cops wounded in a late-night shootout with armed robbers.
The roller-coaster day revealed the incoherence of de Blasio’s mayoralty. He claims lower crime justifies his anti-police agenda, but can’t resist throwing an elbow at the people who actually do the dangerous job. And when two officers are wounded, he praises their courage without any recognition of why so many of the Finest believe he has made the job even more dangerous.
The toxic tangle is growing worse, with data suggesting a widespread slowdown. Arrests and summonses are falling so steeply that there is no other reasonable explanation. Meanwhile, murders and other serious crimes jumped in the last two weeks of December, erasing some of the gains made throughout the year....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I don’t blame them. If he was my boss I would be richly tempted to arrest no one other than the very worst cases.
I would LOATHE this man as a boss. Eh...as anything, actually.
This situation is like a huge bonfire just waiting for the right match. I’m afraid if the match is found, it’s going to get terribly ugly very fast. DeBlabla has no idea what he’s causing.
Interesting comment about the low turnout. 7.7 million people in NYC did not vote for him.
I would make NYC an exception.
Excellent piece by Michael Goodwin, thanks for posting!
de Blasio will continue to try to destroy NYC if he’s not stopped. He’s as bad as Obama, albeit on a more local level.
He’s completely detestable.
This is a model of how to take back our cities
Guliani gave him such good advice.
Just apologize and move on. So he rejected that advice.
I hope Guliani gives him more good advice that he can reject.
Very curious. Obama is more interested in representing those that didn’t vote at all in the midterms, not those who voted overwhelmingly for conseravatives and Republicans.
Thirty-three years later, she would catapult to greater visibility as the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Except for two blips in her husband's campaign, however, this aspect of McCray's life has resisted closer scrutiny.....(and outright lies WRT her sexual preferences).
Mrs DeBlasio's lesbian essay surfaced as a potential campaign issue late in 2012, a month before de Blasio officially announced his candidacy.....de Blasio's website made only a passing reference to McCray having belonged to a "black feminist" collective..... a 2011 article co-bylined by the couple in support of marriage equality omitted any mention of McCray's very public lesbian past, even though the article appeared in Go, a lesbian magazine widely distributed throughout the city.
The New York Post, at least, immediately took notice.....a Post cartoon depicted the couple in bed, McCray on the phone telling someone, "I used to be a lesbian, but my husband, Bill de Blasio, won me over," while her husband lay beside her clad in sexy lingerie.
NY POST CARTOON
Her essay----a nauseating rant of victimization---can be read via the digital library Scribd.com
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