De Blasio’s Iowa Field of Daydreams

This week, Mayor Bill de Blasio traveled from New York, a state with one of the highest levels of income inequality in America, according to research by University of Washington professor Richard Morrill, to Iowa, a state with one of the lowest levels of inequality, in order to lecture Iowans on . . . how to end inequality! While in Iowa, the second-year mayor repeatedly blasted the rich for not paying enough in taxes. In one speech, he mentioned taxes some 20 times. What de Blasio neglected to explain to Iowans, though, is how New York, which already has some of the highest taxes in America (especially on the wealthy and on businesses), hasn’t managed to moderate or restrain the growth of inequality, while Iowa (which taxes its residents below the national average, according to the Tax Foundation) apparently has.

De Blasio was in Iowa because prospective presidential candidates are visiting the state, and the mayor wants to ensure that income inequality figures prominently in the discussion. But once de Blasio ventured outside of his comfort zone of bashing the wealthy—especially the Wall Street executives and hedge-fund managers whom he loves to treat as villains—his policy proposals were anything but coherent. Two of de Blasio’s national agenda items, for instance, are to hike the minimum wage and require all businesses to grant mandatory sick-leave time to workers. But hedge funds and Wall Street firms already pay workers way above the minimum wage, of course, and offer some of the best employee benefits around. The real burden of de Blasio’s solutions would fall not on them, but on small firms, many of which struggle to make a profit and don’t have extra cash lying around. . .

BLOBBIO DESCRIBES HER AS HIS "NUMBER ONE ADVISOR" Insider buzz is that Blobbio is ruled by his wife---that the two work hand in hand to make public policy decisions.----Earlier news reports say Police Commissioner Bratton cautioned DeBlob not to bring his wife to the crucial meeting held to redress grievances of five cop unions Blobbio had slandered.

RESUME ENHANCEMENT PROGRESSIVE-STYLE During DeBlobbio's campaign, his wife Chirlane I. McCray was billed as a writer, poet, editor, communications professional, and political figure who published poetry and worked in politics for the Clintons.

THE REAL STORY Mrs DeBlobbio loudly declared her lesbianism in a magazine article---she was in a black feminist lesbian group and wrote poetry about being a lesbian. Politicker noted her husband's campaign website doesn't reference her background as an avowed lesbian and a lesbian activist or lesbian poet: It notes her affiliation with the Combahee River Collective, omitting mention of the group’s lesbian roots, referencing it as "a pioneering black feminist collective."

The two met while both worked for the Dinkins campaign. She says she had a nose ring and wore African garb when he spotted her and was completely smitten. She never told him she was a lesbian. And later said after their marriage she was still attracted to women. During the mayoral campaign, she was asked about her lesbian lifestyle----she retorted she "didn't understand the question." The Blobbio's honeymooned in Communist Cuba and picked coffee beans w/ Sandinistas (then America's arch-enemies).

The New York Post ran a cartoon depicting 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.

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LET THE FUN BEGIN---Blobbio and Rev Al "Ebonics" Sharpton in the WH.

"Al, you goin' to the WH with me and Chirlayne."

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