Posted on 01/25/2017 5:10:25 AM PST by drewh
Hillary Clinton would easily dethrone vulnerable Bill de Blasio and cruise to victory as the next mayor of New York City — if she wants the job — political insiders told the Herald yesterday.
“Were she to run, de Blasio’s best move would be to put in his retirement papers,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran New York City Democratic strategist who’s worked for both former President Bill Clinton and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“If she shows up, she clears the field — it’s over. She’s wildly popular here, and her rationale for running is she can unite the city and she could be an advocate in Washington, where she has friends in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle.”
Clinton, fresh off a devastating presidential upset, has given no indication whether she’d return to politics, but a chance to run the largest city in America — and the place where the Trump Organization is headquartered — could be impossible to pass up.
It’s not the leader of the free world, but it’s an influential, high-caliber political post that past mayors like John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani have used to launch White House bids, albeit failed ones.
Other cities around the world are often quick to follow New York’s lead on policies and initiatives — the city’s 2003 decision to ban smoking in the workplace, for instance.
“When New York did it, Italy, Ireland, most of Europe and the rest of the country followed,” said Stu Loeser, a longtime press secretary to Bloomberg.
“If you really care about innovating in policy, you have the flexibility, the power, the resources and the bully pulpit to do it in New York and have it copied,” Loeser said.
Loeser also argued that Clinton’s political weaknesses — including her inability to connect with average voters the way former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did — will be less damaging in a mayoral run.
“It matters in a presidential race. New Yorkers approach things a little differently,” Loeser said. “New Yorkers like wonky technocratic mayors that roll up their sleeves, but more importantly, offer new and interesting ideas.”
A Quinnipiac University poll last week showed Clinton well ahead of de Blasio in a hypothetical showdown. Clinton, running as an independent, leads de Blasio, running as a Democrat, 49-30 percent, according to the poll. The same survey shows most New Yorkers, by a 49-42 margin, don’t believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected.
Old bitch is like Dracula.
Please, please let Cankles run again.
If he isn’t doing a good job, what does that say about the politics of New Yorkers? DeBlasio has their political beliefs.
Of course she would.
“Poll: Hillary Clinton Would Easily Beat ____________.”
Why does that somehow sound so familiar?
That would be fun to watch with Comey staying on as FBI director.
“It matters in a presidential race. New Yorkers approach things a little differently,” Loeser said. “New Yorkers like wonky technocratic mayors that roll up their sleeves, but more importantly, offer new and interesting ideas.”
That’s a total BS statement. Both Mayors Koch and Gulianni were straight forward standup guys. That’s the sort of mayor NYers like.
New York...dumber with her.
what's new about increasing taxes and regulations?
Lock her up. This is the reason that the Trump administration must not let up on prosecuting Hillary so she will never come back, or Chelsea after her.
NYC deserves her. She knows nothing about budgets, payrolls, efficiencies. Just destruction, and subsequent cover ups.
The real poll is going to be the “What happens on the streets of NY” poll.
I’m a Southern boy. I’ve been told all of my life that New Yorkers and Californians are smarter than us dumb ole rednecks....recent events have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that is a lie.
She has this pathological need to control people’s lives when she doesn’t even have control over her simplest bodily functions.
I don't think she could establish residency in time to challenge de Blasio. I believe you have to be a resident of NYC for at least 1 year. Even if she could run, I don't think she would because Hillary would consider anything less than the presidency to be beneath her. I agree with you. I think these stories are just being put out there to feed Hillary's bruised ego.
Any poll showing Hillary with an election advantage is immediately suspect.
But, but, but, isn’t that the neighborhood that gets the Islamic bombers?
An important point that her boot-lickers in the press fail to bring up. She currently lives in Westchester county and would need to establish residency in NYC to run and serve as mayor. That's not necessarily a big hurdle for Hillary, I guess she could move in with her daughter where she apparently has a "fainting hospital" all setup and waiting.
Even if she does move to the city, count me as skeptical that this would be a "cake walk" for her if she runs. New Yorkers may have loved her as senator and president but they are more parochial about their mayors. She really hasn't paid her dues or established herself as a genuine "New Yorker". Not talking New Yorker from a statewide perspective but from a city perspective. Chappaqua might as well sit on the West Coast so far as real New Yorkers are concerned. <>P
It would be a huge step down and therefore beneath her (in her mind).
Yes it’s a big city with disproportionate media coverage but the mayor’s office is just the top of a big bureaucracy. Garbage collection, snow plowing, etc. Hillary has no organizational abilities and no energy anyway.
Actually, the current crop of aliens and ner do wells in California and New York are not those about which the statement was made years ago.
Both states have had their populations severely polluted with human detritus. Into a great cup of coffee, sewage has been poured to end up with steaming sewage rather than palatable coffee. Control has been wrested from “good People”
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