Posted on 01/01/2015 10:18:23 AM PST by Kaslin
The current Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, is a closet communist to the most ardent of critics. Compelling evidence (even From the New York Times!) about his past lends significant credence to this allegation. To conservatives like Washington Post’s George Will, he is a blessing in disguise, exposing New Yorkers to unfettered progressive principles, and their consequences. Nothing inoculates voters better to the dangers of abject liberalism than a heavy dose of it, Will quipped.
Enter Mayor Blah-Blah, the most ardent of advocates for left-wing policies.
De Blasio pledged to fund and expand Planned Parenthood in New York City: abortionist to the extreme. He supports universal pre-school, and the unionization of pre-K teachers, and thus the Democratic funding and support sure to follow. Kill the kids, but unionize their state-sponsored schooling from cradle to grave should they survive.
Outspoken in his criticism of anything conservative, de Blasio doubled down when New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo backed away from insulting, divisive remarks of true New Yorkers as antithetical to anything conservative (pro-life, pro Second Amendment, low taxes, high liberty, etc). Cuomo faces a hostile legislature, an unprecedented surge of Republican Congressmen in Long Island and Upstate York. However, De Blasio urges Democrats to stand fast on progressive principles.
A fierce opponent of charter schools and school choice, De Blasio swiftly declared a moratorium on charter schools, and undercut their funding in New York City. The greatest backlash came not from the right, nor from school choice conservatives, but fellow liberal Democrat Cuomo and minority advocates for inner city youth.
An animal advocate at the expense of commerce and community, De Blasio ran for mayor pledging to ban horse-drawn carriages for Central Park. As for Staten Island Chuck, however, the furry rodent predicted not only six more weeks of winter, but met his untimely demise at the inadvertent hands of the uber-Leftist de Blasio. Everything that liberal mayor touches gets polarized, politicized, or perishes.
Which may include his tenure in office. Even liberal Al Roker offered his own cynical prediction: “Forecast: One Term” for De Blasio following his heedless decision to force New York City kids to go to school in the heaviest and harshest of snow storms (plus delaying snow plows in hard-hit sections of Manhattan).
Yet in the latest rout of this radical mayor’s reputation in the Big Apple, De Blasio has been an unwavering advocate of the criminal element in New York City at the expense of the victim, the community, and even the police. De Blasio rallied liberal support for his campaign when he pledged to stop Stop-and-Frisk, even though he appointed the law-and-order success Bill Bratton back from Los Angeles to his home.
Now the NYPD is under attack, and they blame the actions (not necessarily the rhetoric) of Mayor Blah-Blah. Two police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were gunned down in executioner style in the final weeks of 2014. The lone attacker claimed the murders as payback for Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and all African-Americans brought down by “The Man”.
In spite of his strongest plaints on behalf of the police, including increased funding and resources, the NYPD are fed up with De Blasio.
One of the main complaints from the NYPD with the Mayor of NYC? He is an active apologist for professional race-baiter “Reverend” Al Sharpton, the aggravating community organizer of crowds chanting “What do we want? Dead Cops!” :
De Blasio’s take on Sharpton?:
The more people criticize him, the more I want to hang out with him.
The NYPD criticize Mayor De Blasio in word and deed, turning their backs to him during his eulogy for the two officers. (Adding insult to misery, the mayor had arrived hours lateto the service). Interspersing a NYPD graduation commencement speech with Biblical quotes of peace, the mayor met boos, as police continue their public affront. Not helping matters, he re-appointed a judge severely derided by the New York Post as a “set-em-free” judge who let cop haters go free. The police do not want to hang out with this guy. Instead, they fly banners repudiating Mayor Blah-Blah: “De Blasio, Our Backs Have Turned To You” and “De Blasio, apologize to the NYPD!!”
Recent reports now suggest that De Blasio networked with public officials to criticize the police for their ill treatment :
"City Hall wanted me to blast the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association for turning their backs on him," one legislator [shared]. "They ... said they were calling all of us, and that it was our obligation to stand up defending the mayor." The legislator described the tenor of the call as being "because they were calling that we should do whatever they ask."
From rising tensions among police leaders, to public rebukes from police officers, to sharp decreases in arrests following the savage assassination of two peace officers, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio has more than his fair share of NYPD blahs, and has only himself to blame. His blasé tenure in New York City may renew hope that the Empire State is putting its ultra-liberal days behind herself.
Closet Communist ? He’s about as closeted as Elton John.
Not sure what the meeting was about, but it isn't hard to think of some likely topics.
Let’s hope this translates into a loss at the polls next time around. DeBlasio is the kind of a$$hole who could end up as governor of NY or even worse.
“closet communist”
There’s no closet. He’s very open about it. Obviously he doesn’t use the word “communist”. None of the leftists do, yet they’re as communist as anyone can be.
If DeBlasio ran for re-election tomorrow he'd probably win.
You are right. Hearing of less arrests by the NYPD is music to DeBlasio voters’ ears. They want to be “free” to do as much crime as they want without “racis” interference.
What was the old saying? The voters of deblasio should get a strong does of his policies good and hard...
Does NYC have a recall in its charter? I have to assume not since one hasn’t been mounted.
There were two events in NYC in the last six weeks that involved a lot of publicity and media coverage, and a lot of visitors from outside the city: the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and last evening's New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. Despite many threats by protestors to disrupt those events, they went off without a hitch.
The outer boroughs can be burned to the ground for all they care, but there's no way in hell even a communist rabble-rousing mayor of New York City would allow any disruption to commerce when it involves high-profile events like that in Manhattan.
I was afraid of that. I had heard previously that most NYPD officers don’t even life in the city.
The 18% of the voting population of NYC that elected Herr Wilhelm were the ones outted as the communists, I believe.
...pledged to fund and expand Planned Parenthood in New York City: abortionist to the extreme. He supports universal pre-school, and the unionization of pre-K teachers, and thus the Democratic funding and support sure to follow. Kill the kids, but unionize their state-sponsored schooling from cradle to grave should they survive... de Blasio doubled down when New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo [pretend] backed away from [his own] insulting, divisive remarks of true New Yorkers as antithetical to... [pro-life, Second Amendment, low taxes, high liberty, etc].... A fierce opponent of charter schools and school choice, De Blasio swiftly declared a moratorium on charter schools, and undercut their funding in New York City. The greatest backlash came not from the right, nor from school choice conservatives, but fellow liberal Democrat Cuomo and minority advocates for inner city youth. An animal advocate at the expense of commerce and community, De Blasio ran for mayor pledging to ban horse-drawn carriages for Central Park [to benefit one of his financial backers]... Even liberal Al Roker offered his own cynical prediction: "Forecast: One Term" for De Blasio following his heedless decision to force New York City kids to go to school in the heaviest and harshest of snow storms...
The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department
Bo Dietl -- Bill de Blasio Should RESIGN Tomorrow!
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