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I'm making a point of posting this because I found it very perturbing that posters here were insulting him as mayor before he'd even settled into office, sounding suspiciously like shills. And most of the insults aren't backed with facts.
Stop Sneering at Bill de Blasio
He shouldn’t run for president, but he’s been a good mayor.
Conventional wisdom holds that de Blasio is a joke, a sanctimonious dork held in widespread contempt by the city he governs. New York’s tabloids despise him. His presidential bid has been greeted with a combination of sneering, eye-rolling and baffled pity.
I’m as confused as everyone else about why de Blasio is running for president. But the mockery greeting his every move obscures what a successful mayor he’s been, particularly for working- and middle-class families. In addition to free pre-K, he’s increased the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour, expanded a law mandating paid sick leave and set a record in financing affordable housing. In his book about de Blasio, former Daily News columnist Juan González estimated that the mayor’s policies delivered at least $21 billion in benefits to ordinary New Yorkers... Contrary to dire warnings from de Blasio’s opponents, crime in the city has dropped to record lows. In 2017, he was re-elected in a landslide, the first Democratic mayor to win a second term in New York City since the 1980s.
I'm making a point of posting this because I found it very perturbing that posters here were insulting him as mayor before he'd even settled into office, sounding suspiciously like shills. And most of the insults aren't backed with facts.
Stop Sneering at Bill de Blasio
He shouldn’t run for president, but he’s been a good mayor.
Conventional wisdom holds that de Blasio is a joke, a sanctimonious dork held in widespread contempt by the city he governs. New York’s tabloids despise him. His presidential bid has been greeted with a combination of sneering, eye-rolling and baffled pity.
I’m as confused as everyone else about why de Blasio is running for president. But the mockery greeting his every move obscures what a successful mayor he’s been, particularly for working- and middle-class families. In addition to free pre-K, he’s increased the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour, expanded a law mandating paid sick leave and set a record in financing affordable housing. In his book about de Blasio, former Daily News columnist Juan González estimated that the mayor’s policies delivered at least $21 billion in benefits to ordinary New Yorkers... Contrary to dire warnings from de Blasio’s opponents, crime in the city has dropped to record lows. In 2017, he was re-elected in a landslide, the first Democratic mayor to win a second term in New York City since the 1980s.
I'm making a point of posting this because I found it very perturbing that posters here were insulting him as mayor before he'd even settled into office, sounding suspiciously like shills. And most of the insults aren't backed with facts.
Stop Sneering at Bill de Blasio
He shouldn’t run for president, but he’s been a good mayor.
Conventional wisdom holds that de Blasio is a joke, a sanctimonious dork held in widespread contempt by the city he governs. New York’s tabloids despise him. His presidential bid has been greeted with a combination of sneering, eye-rolling and baffled pity.
I’m as confused as everyone else about why de Blasio is running for president. But the mockery greeting his every move obscures what a successful mayor he’s been, particularly for working- and middle-class families. In addition to free pre-K, he’s increased the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour, expanded a law mandating paid sick leave and set a record in financing affordable housing. In his book about de Blasio, former Daily News columnist Juan González estimated that the mayor’s policies delivered at least $21 billion in benefits to ordinary New Yorkers... Contrary to dire warnings from de Blasio’s opponents, crime in the city has dropped to record lows. In 2017, he was re-elected in a landslide, the first Democratic mayor to win a second term in New York City since the 1980s.
Some of the things he did in his first term were positive and perhaps needed, but the question is this sustainable. The city's budget has gone up from about 60~ Billion in the last Bloomberg term to >90 Billion today. He's also the recipient of one of the most massive economic booms of the post war era. Dinkins, another highly derided mayor, to his credit had to fight a vicious recession and a massive urban drug epidemic to achieve any real gains. DeBlasio has faced no such headwinds.
In short, it will take at least a full post-DeBlasio mayoral term to truly begin to asses what his legacy will be to the city. Some mayors reverberate for generations (LaGuardia, Lindsay, Guliani, Bloomberg) and others seem to just be footnotes (Koch, Beame, Wagner).
He shouldn’t run for president, but he’s been a good mayor.
Sure, if in your language 'good' means an absolute disaster and one of the top 3 worst mayors in the history of New York City dating back to New Amsterdam
I'm making a point of posting this because I found it very perturbing that posters here were insulting him as mayor before he'd even settled into office, sounding suspiciously like shills. And most of the insults aren't backed with facts.
Stop Sneering at Bill de Blasio
He shouldn’t run for president, but he’s been a good mayor.
Conventional wisdom holds that de Blasio is a joke, a sanctimonious dork held in widespread contempt by the city he governs. New York’s tabloids despise him. His presidential bid has been greeted with a combination of sneering, eye-rolling and baffled pity.
I’m as confused as everyone else about why de Blasio is running for president. But the mockery greeting his every move obscures what a successful mayor he’s been, particularly for working- and middle-class families. In addition to free pre-K, he’s increased the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour, expanded a law mandating paid sick leave and set a record in financing affordable housing. In his book about de Blasio, former Daily News columnist Juan González estimated that the mayor’s policies delivered at least $21 billion in benefits to ordinary New Yorkers... Contrary to dire warnings from de Blasio’s opponents, crime in the city has dropped to record lows. In 2017, he was re-elected in a landslide, the first Democratic mayor to win a second term in New York City since the 1980s.
These examples given by this writer do not help middle-class families. They probably do not even help a large chunk of working-class families.
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