Bronx in uproar after de Blasio skips Columbus Day parade

NY Post ^ | 10/12/2014 | Elizabeth Hagan and Michael Gartland

[Kid Shelleen]

Mayor de Blasio skipped a Columbus Day parade in The Bronx at his own peril Sunday, as residents chided him for showing off his ethnic pride only when it suits his political ends — and not marching this year to hide from the recent controversy over one of his top aides. “He’s Italian when he feels like it! This is the second largest Columbus parade in the city!” said parade-goer Joe Carfora of Hizzoner’s failure to attend the celebration along Morris Park Avenue in the northeastern part of The Bronx. “When Bloomberg was mayor, he would show up every year. De Blasio’s his last name!” Morris Park, which boasts one of the city’s highest concentrations of Italian-Americans, is one of the few neighborhoods

[FreeReign]

Wilhelm strikes again.

[Organic Panic]

A self serving communist??? NAH. Say it ain’t so.

[OldNewYork]

New York Irish have St. Patrick’s Day; New York Italians have Columbus Day. So, well done, if he was trying to annoy a major part of the electorate.