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He sunk I don’t know how many billions in various programs over his 8 years to fight this or that and yet everything in the city has gotten worse. Crime, education, transportation, homelessness, mental illness, affordability, pedestrian / motor vehicle accidents, infrastructure, sanitation, expanding city government payroll and bureaucracy, etc. have all gotten worse despite this doofus blowing countless billions with very little to show for it.
There is nothing to reconsider. The man is a failure. Not just a failure professionally. But also as a father and husband. No politician in NY history managed to make all political spectrums hate him.
There is nothing to reconsider. The man is a failure. Not just a failure professionally. But also as a father and husband. No politician in NY history managed to make all political spectrums hate him.
then who voted for him? those voters are probably a bigger loser for the self inflicted pain to NYers
Looks like someone didn't bother reading the whole article.
Every real progressive I know can't stand him.
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“He was just so brutally mean to people,” recalls one agency head. “I can’t stand the man.”
“An arrogant ass,” says another adviser.
“Really, really hard to take,” says a third. “Constantly being lectured and patronized.”
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But he was frequently racked with an inability to make a decision — “tortured with his own internal politics,” in the words of one former aide. And at age 60, he is still uncertain about exactly what kind of person he wants to be.
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“This was always the problem,” recalls one former top deputy. “He tried to paint himself as a working-class Brooklyn guy, and it was a complete fraud.” At the same time, de Blasio sees himself as someone fully committed to the cause of social justice. “He tries to make people around him feel like they are beneath him, that they aren’t woke to what he is woke to because of his family,” adds another.
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His defenders like to say that the scorn he engenders comes from white elites offended at his multiracial family. But this ignores the fact that de Blasio’s numbers with Black and brown voters are below those of nearly every other prominent elected official in the state — and around a dozen points below those of scandal-scarred Cuomo.
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In November, dozens of taxi drivers went on a hunger strike in front of City Hall to get leaders to help them retire their debts from the city-regulated medallions they had bought. It ended only when Chuck Schumer, hardly a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, intervened. “What kind of ****ing progressive lets taxi drivers sit out there and starve?” asks a former staffer.
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