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De Blasio U-turn on Trump ice rinks: NYC Mayor says Wollman and Lasker rinks in Central Park will stay OPEN and Trump Organization will remain the operator
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 22, 2021 | Holden Walter-Warner

Posted on 02/22/2021 3:31:38 AM PST by C19fan

The Wollman and Lasker rinks will not be closed after all, with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio suddenly folding to pressure to keep the ice rinks open.

Sunday was destined to be the last day of the season the rinks would be open in Central Park.

The mayor wanted to shut them down because they are run by the Trump Organization, whose contracts he has been trying to cancel in the wake of the Capitol riot.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: conservative98

“They just won’t shut down immediately to save this season. Kicking out Trump is still the plan.”

Contract is up. DeBlasio just did what every rat with TDS and a hatred of the American people does. They telegraph their intentions and then follow through on them.


21 posted on 02/22/2021 4:52:11 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: kearnyirish2

“Trump and/or a Republican Congress weren’t going to throw billions at our dying, obsolete cities filled with non-producers.”

Even worse. They were going to get those people gainfully employed, and then how would they be controlled and used. Factory workers are too tired at the end of the day to riot.


22 posted on 02/22/2021 4:53:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Sacajaweau

I will laugh when nobody is capable of operating it. As if they’re doing Trump a favor by letting him manage a skating rink.


23 posted on 02/22/2021 4:54:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: C19fan
DeBlasio, you’re such a...


24 posted on 02/22/2021 5:15:02 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: C19fan

I give it a year and Seattle’s CHOP Zone will look like a botanical garden by comparison.


25 posted on 02/22/2021 5:35:14 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: C19fan

Is DeBlasse a racist, sexist, homophobe now?


26 posted on 02/22/2021 5:42:24 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: C19fan

De Blasio can’t make the “staring you in the face” correct decision about the remaining SIX WEEKS of a simple ice skating rink contract on his first try. He needs a mulligan. Yet he is responsible for the decisions on a daily basis that will affect New Yorkers for years to come. When our founding fathers established our republic, surely they never imagined that citizens would elect morons like De Blasio and Coumo.


27 posted on 02/22/2021 5:48:08 AM PST by Saltmeat (69)
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To: C19fan

Winning


28 posted on 02/22/2021 5:57:18 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: PghBaldy

“I am shocked this happened, and that it happened so quickly. Good news for New York.”

I think Delblasio dropped Ted Cruz from his ‘politico advisory’ staff, once the reaction to closing the rink came in.


29 posted on 02/22/2021 6:03:13 AM PST by BobL
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To: Saltmeat

Actually I think morons..like the democrats and rinos.. is partly why they wrote the USC.


30 posted on 02/22/2021 6:03:14 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: PghBaldy

De Blasio, proving once again what an absolute, gaping rectum he is!!


31 posted on 02/22/2021 6:03:31 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I caught that after I posted. People in NYC will miss Trump, and his tax “contributions”. These people are idiots. FWIW, I had two ancestors on the Mayflower on my mothers side, but my last name traces to a 1645 immigrant to New Netherlands. My great-great grandfather was a police captain during the Civil War draft riots. I was born in Manhattan, and raised in Queens, actually in Jamaica, just like Cuomo and Trump, but definitely on the wrong side of the tracks, south of Atlantic Avenue.


32 posted on 02/22/2021 6:03:51 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)
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To: Guenevere
The mayor wanted to shut them down because they are run by the Trump Organization, whose contracts he has been trying to cancel in the wake of the Capitol riot.

Trump organization will not be rehired according to the mayors people because," They won''t work with people who fomented Insurrection".

33 posted on 02/22/2021 6:04:19 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: C19fan

Probably had a contract that wasn’t easily broken


34 posted on 02/22/2021 6:37:15 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: C19fan

For this year only.


35 posted on 02/22/2021 6:37:50 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: C19fan

Translation-

Warren couldn’t set up a satisfactory grift for himself with another operating company.


36 posted on 02/22/2021 6:52:13 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: headstamp 2

[[[Translation-

Warren couldn’t set up a satisfactory grift for himself with another operating company.]]]

He needs more time.


37 posted on 02/22/2021 6:56:00 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: C19fan

DeBlasio is still an idiot. He’s ruined NYC.

FWIW, FReepers who want to bypass DM’s attempt at blocking Ad Blockers can read the article via Reader View:

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38 posted on 02/22/2021 7:04:08 AM PST by upchuck (When it absolutely, positively has to get there, choose something other than USPS.)
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To: Eleutheria5
"... will never be forgotten or forgiven.’”

So, not in any ways Christian, then.

39 posted on 02/22/2021 11:44:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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To: C19fan

There is a $150 million dollar renovation scheduled for the area. Soon to balloon up in price. Maybe Trump can help out again?
https://www.6sqft.com/revealed-150m-renovation-of-central-park-north-includes-new-pool-skating-rink-and-more/


40 posted on 02/22/2021 3:51:12 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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