Posted on 10/09/2017 11:59:09 AM PDT by Hadean
The rain-soaked crowd demanded that the city's statue of Christopher Columbus stay put.
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY It rained on Bill de Blasio's parade Monday in more ways than one. Crowds along Fifth Avenue showered the mayor with boos during the rain-soaked Columbus Day parade, demanding that the city not touch the landmark statue of the holiday's namesake at Columbus Circle.
De Blasio, a Democrat, has offered repeated assurances that the statue isn't going anywhere for now. A commission he appointed is reviewing the monument and others around the city that could be removed because they're symbols of oppression.
But that didn't convince the scores of New Yorkers who jeered the mayor, with some yelling phrases such as "Go home, Bill" and "Leave Columbus alone." "Save the statue, otherwise you're German!" one man shouted.
"This thing is just spreading," said Giovanna Moriello, who was among the revelers who jeered de Blasio. "They're taking down the statues down south you can't cancel history."
De Blasio smiled through the boos, waving an Italian flag and joking with the firefighters who flanked him along the sparsely populated parade route. "I don't get lost in the critics," he told reporters before the parade. Staffers from the mayor's office and the NYPD ushered reporters ahead, keeping a greater distance between them and de Blasio than the press would have liked.
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Bill de Blasio.. America’s number one WHISTLEDICK Mayor.
“Is there hope for NYC?”
Nope,
“Guiliani did a good job, really. (All things considered)”
And he was a genuine Italian as opposed to DiBlowjobio.
No.
Oh dear. De Blasio will have to change his name - AGAIN.
DeBlasio will easily win re-election due to the overwhelming brain-dead NYC electorate, but he's hardly running "unopposed", as there are six other candidates who will appear on the ballot for NYC Mayor.
The term "unopposed" might rhetorically describe the NYC electorate, but technically it's completely incorrect (ie: Fake News) ... how in heck do these misnomers get started anyway ??
Bill De Blass-I-o-hole
Polls I’ve seen show him leading by a ridiculous margin against an attractive GOP foe.
Leni
Or dead chickens.
My uncle threw dead chickens at the mayor of New Orleans during Mardi Gras some years ago.
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