http://nypost.com/2014/10/01/de-blasios-defense-of-sharpton-aide-proves-whos-in-charge/
October 1, 2014
Sharpton, remember, didn’t do the expected and support Bill Thompson, the only black candidate in the 2013 Democratic mayoral primary. De Blasio was the most ardent cop critic in the pack, eagerly put his biracial family front and center, and probably promised Sharpton lots of face time and, just maybe, a patronage job or two. In the end, Sharpton stayed neutral.
As a result, de Blasio and Thompson split the black vote, which allowed de Blasio to squeak past the 40 percent threshold he needed to avoid a runoff.
That history makes clear that the way to understand Noerdlinger’s hiring, her excessive salary, the waiver and the mayor’s willingness to spend political capital defending her is that it has nothing to do with her. It’s all about repaying his debt to Sharpton.
The problem is that no repayment will ever be sufficient. Sharpton is like the Mafia — the more you pay, the more you owe. When you have a debt to him, he owns you.
He publicly humiliated de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at City Hall; in a normal world, that would be enough to get him exiled. But as the Noerdlinger case shows, the mayor believes he is still so far in hock that he’ll twist and bend and insult the NYPD to keep Sharpton happy.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/about-us/our-team/editorial-team/murray-weiss
August 12, 2014
De Blasio Would Dump Bratton in Showdown with Sharpton, Sources Say
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As for Bratton, “the mayor picked him because he knew that one day the s—t will hit the fan, as it always will, and he will need Bratton’s experience to keep the cops in line and handle the situation.”
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But if things worsen, insiders say, it will be no question that de Blasio would opt to stick with Sharpton rather than Bratton. Sharpton commands a constituency that is more aligned with de Blasio’s voting pool than Bratton does, they say.
“He can throw Bratton under the bus.”