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NYC Mayor De Blasio defends his wife's $2million-a-year staff of FOURTEEN and says they serve 'the needs of the people of this city' after she was branded a 'disgrace' when 22,000 city jobs are due to be cut
Daily Mail ^ | August 19, 2020 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 08/19/2020 6:00:45 PM PDT by rickmichaels

Bill de Blasio tried to defend his unelected wife's $1.1million staff on Wednesday after angry New Yorkers labeled it a 'disgrace' when the city is so short on cash and 22,000 jobs are expected to be cut.

Despite not being officially employed by the city government Chirlane McCray, who heads up the city's mental health program ThriveNYC, enjoys a core team of eight full-time staff who cost the city a combined $1.1 million in annual salaries, according to her office.

Sources at the Mayor's Office told The City the mayor's wife, who is mulling a run for Brooklyn borough president, also has at least another six staff who do not feature on the official roster, taking her total workforce to 14 with a hefty price tag of $2 million.

She has worked with a $70,000 videographer who filmed her baking cookies at home, and has a $150,000-a-year senior adviser.

While the mayor's wife has a considerable team, her husband has sounded repeated warnings that a staggering 22,000 workers could lose their jobs in the fall due to the toll the pandemic has taken on the city's budget.

On Wednesday however, de Blasio defended their work, saying it was crucial to mental health and diversity.

'That article (referring to the initial The City story) didn't take into account the work that's being done. This work is about the needs of the people of this city.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: deblasio; letthemeatcake; newyork; nyc
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To: rickmichaels

SPJNK. Both.


21 posted on 08/19/2020 6:59:44 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rickmichaels

Quite shocking that all NYC residents I know did not vote for this scum and are sickened by what NYC has become.WTF votes for it?


22 posted on 08/19/2020 7:05:12 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: rickmichaels

What were those 22,000 “workers” doing?


23 posted on 08/19/2020 7:19:03 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: shanover
"It is not important how people vote. It is only important WHO counts the votes."

~ Stalin

24 posted on 08/19/2020 7:22:20 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Sources at the Mayor's Office saidthe mayor's wife also has at least another six staff who are not named
on the official public roster. Her total workforce numbers 14 with a hefty price tag of $2 million.

McRay's pricey team includes $150,000-a-year senior adviser Dabash Negash (pictured) recruited in April
- at the height of the pandemic, just one week after de Blasio announced a hiring freeze to help close a $7.4 billion budget deficit.

25 posted on 08/19/2020 7:57:45 PM PDT by Liz
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These two commies have city money pouring in......faster than they can find places to hide it.

DeBlob put his wife in charge of four (4) govt-funded agencies that have the most potential for looting

(A) <><> mental health reform (she "forgot" where she put $800 million tax dollars)

(B) <><> coronavirus racial equity agency.....

(C) <><> heads the tax-funded Mayor’s Task Force on Racial Inclusion

(D) <><> Upon taking office, he gave her "The Mayor's Fund for NYC" which receives non-stop tax dollars to
"do-good" for the city (and to finance their political ambitions).

THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT----they can loot and pillage tax dollars at will.

26 posted on 08/19/2020 7:58:44 PM PDT by Liz
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To: carriage_hill

His #one advisor, Mayor de Blasio’s wife says eliminating NYPD would be ‘nirvana, a utopia’
BizPac Review ^ | June 11, 2020 | Jon Dougherty / FR Posted by kevcol

“That would be like a nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere close to getting to,” McCray noted in a TIME100 Talks discussion. McCray’s comments come after elected leaders in Minneapolis have caved to demands by Left-wing groups to disband that city’s police department in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a few bad cops last month. (Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...

27 posted on 08/19/2020 8:01:17 PM PDT by Liz
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The progressive NYC Mayor and his Black wife were jeered and booed,
told to "get the **** of the stage" at a recent BLM rally.

Really, people. Did the Black woman HAVE to wear an old shirt to the rally
emblazoned with watermelon slices as a reminder black lives didnt matter?

28 posted on 08/19/2020 8:04:33 PM PDT by Liz
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To: rickmichaels

And despots wonder why they end up staring into a basket while a giant blade shimmers above their neck.


29 posted on 08/19/2020 8:07:04 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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The duo were using the Clinton Playbook-——he got in as Mayor——next step presidency for him as she got into the US Senate.....then her turn as president.
Unfortunately, it did not work out the way they planned......snx.

He bombed as a prez candidate-——and she’s been playing hanky panky w/ hundreds of millions of tax dollars on all the “do-good” city committees hubby put her in charge of....w/ no oversight.

Well, (snx) they DO need tons of money for their high-falutin’ ambitions.

BACKSTORY-——he was parading her around the city as he conducted his official duties.

Then Police Commissioner Braxton advised him not to bring her along to a critical cops’ meeting.

The DeB’s were highly insulted.....they could do anything they wanted....and summarily fired the P/C.

Its been downhill ever since......and now this......brought down by BLM.


30 posted on 08/19/2020 8:08:48 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

So, then, they’re BOTH dopers.


31 posted on 08/19/2020 8:10:51 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: rickmichaels

Trump better NEVER let the Congress bailout these thieves.


32 posted on 08/19/2020 8:12:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Yup............lol.


33 posted on 08/19/2020 8:45:48 PM PDT by Liz
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To: rickmichaels

Husband and wife duo thieves team.

They don’t care. They will steal until the cows come home.

She’s the real power behind the thrown.


34 posted on 08/19/2020 10:05:56 PM PDT by Chuck N
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To: Hambone 1934

BOL!

Do you have a link to this disaster?

“Annnnnd she “lost” 850 ,000 or was it 850 million???Can anyone say the CAYMAN ISLANDS????”


35 posted on 08/20/2020 9:49:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Our choice 11/3/2020!!!:: Vote for jobs, not rioting mobs!)
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To: Hambone 1934

“she shows the homeless how to make cookies in their kitchens.....A real contribution to the city”

Thanks for sharing her real contribution to NYC!


36 posted on 08/20/2020 10:38:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Our choice 11/3/2020!!!:: Vote for jobs, not rioting mobs!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Where has the 850 million gone????? by Chris Pleasance


37 posted on 08/20/2020 10:56:22 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Hambone 1934; Liz

Where has $850m gone?

Bill de Blasio’s wife can’t account for staggering amount of taxpayer money that the NY Mayor gave her for mental health project!

Chirlane McCray was assigned a $850million budget for her ThriveNYC program!

But records show scheme has failed to keep track of what it spent the money on.

The small amount of data that was collected shows it fell far short of targets.

Despite that, organizers have expanded the budget to $1 billion over five years.

By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 07:52 EDT, 1 March 2019 | UPDATED: 14:12 EDT, 1 March 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6760503/Bill-Blasios-wife-account-850m-given-mental-health-project.html


38 posted on 08/20/2020 11:11:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Our choice 11/3/2020!!!:: Vote for jobs, not rioting mobs!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I still say THE CAYMAN ISLANDS.....


39 posted on 08/20/2020 11:25:37 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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