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The dirty bottom line on de Blasio’s pathetic presidential bid
NY Post ^ | 18 Oct 2019 | Editors

Posted on 10/19/2019 8:19:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Even Mayor de Blasio’s pals at Hot 97 are laughing at his now-defunct presidential campaign, and for good reason: The latest fund-raising numbers show what a complete joke it was.

He only pulled in $333,045 over the last three months of his four-month bid, after raising $1.1 million in the first six weeks.

And at least three-quarters of his cash came from big donors — most of them, people plainly looking for favors from city government, or repaying de Blasio for favors already received.

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De Blasio fumes about The Post for doing its job That includes the local hotel industry and labor union, the Hotel Trades Council — big beneficiaries of the mayor’s war on Airbnb. (To be fair, it’s a family relationship: John Wilhelm, a national hotel-union big, was a key supporter of his cousin Bill de Blasio from the start.)

Even including contributions as small as $1, de Blasio only managed to attract 17,000 donors across the entire country — just 13 percent of the 130,000 he would have needed to make the third and fourth Democratic debates.

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Isn't anyone looking inot how his wife disappeared $750M in her mental health initiative?!

1 posted on 10/19/2019 8:19:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Better than Netflix


2 posted on 10/19/2019 8:26:08 PM PDT by ptsal
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Isn’t anyone looking into how his son Dante (of the bushel-basket sized Afro) was paid $650 a week from Aug. 1 through Sept. 16 as a policy analyst for his father’s presidential campaign? This was revealed by a Federal Election Commission disclosures filed recently.


3 posted on 10/19/2019 8:29:20 PM PDT by EinNYC
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“ Isn’t anyone looking inot how his wife disappeared $750M in her mental health initiative?!”

Never steal anything small.

L


4 posted on 10/19/2019 8:29:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I said it! this was a way for him to fill his pockets


5 posted on 10/20/2019 4:52:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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I said it! this was a way for him to fill his pockets

Along with a bunch of the other 'also ran'.

6 posted on 10/20/2019 7:12:02 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: ronnie raygun
I said it! this was a way for him to fill his pockets

Along with a bunch of the other 'also ran'.

7 posted on 10/20/2019 8:09:31 AM PDT by Vinnie
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