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De Blasio is useless — and NYC’s next mayor could be even worse
New York Post ^ | September 8, 2020 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 09/09/2020 4:35:08 AM PDT by karpov

If Mayor Putz had thrown in a “just kidding” line, his Tuesday press conference would have made more sense. Instead, he again looked like a mayor who doesn’t give a damn.

“Except for that incident, overwhelmingly we had a peaceful weekend in central Brooklyn,” de Blasio told reporters.

“That incident” was the shooting of a 6-year-old boy and his mother. And the “peaceful weekend” included the shootings of 26 other people around the five boroughs.

If this is peace, what would war look like?

Called on his disconnect, de Blasio fired back by saying he was only talking about central Brooklyn. So now he’s just the mayor of central Brooklyn?

It is hard to imagine that New York will survive the nearly 16 months remaining in de Blasio’s reign of error, and even harder to believe he wants to do the work the job requires. Lazy by nature, he has coasted since he was re-elected in 2017 for his second and final term, and his performance during the pandemic reveals he’s already quit on the city.

Serious plans for reopening schools were nonexistent for too long and he made little effort and next-to-no progress in getting the union on board. The city’s unemployment rate remains at nearly 20 percent and some 646,000 private sector jobs vanished, yet there is no evidence de Blasio cares about getting people back to work.

The city is hemorrhaging red ink but his only stabs at the gigantic and growing deficit are to try to raise taxes and borrow.

All these circumstances constitute emergencies, but Public Enemy No. 1 is the surge of violent crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; andrewcuomo; antifa; billdeblasio; deblasio; michaelgoodwin; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; nyc; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex
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"...And the “peaceful weekend” included the shootings of 26 other people around the five boroughs.

If this is peace, what would war look like?..."

How about 49 shot and 10 dead? And that with less than a quarter of the population.

21 posted on 09/09/2020 6:48:06 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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If I recall, only 18% of New York City residents even bothered to turn out for the 2017 mayoral electoin.

It's not that a majority of NYC residents support DeBlasio. It's worse than that. They just don't seem to care.

22 posted on 09/09/2020 6:51:52 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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23 posted on 09/09/2020 7:28:46 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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