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David Freedlander wrote this assessment for New York magazine.
It's worth nothing again that people here (Republicans?) were unfairly insulting him before he settled into office, and most of the insults over the years were ad hominem, it seemed to me.
Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted Yet as the mayor prepares to leave office, he remains stubbornly unpopular.
He ended stop and frisk, and crime fell. He told rich people they could move away for all he cared, and more came. He raised wages, and businesses flooded into the city. The New York City budget under de Blasio has grown from $77 billion to more than $100 billion, not because he increased any taxes on the rich (he tried to, but Andrew Cuomo wouldn’t allow it) but because his tenure was defined by extraordinary economic growth — growth that has, arguably, lessened rather than widened the city’s yawning inequality. For all of us who have spent the past eight years grumbling about de Blasio, which, to be clear, is all of us, we have gotten to live in a city that is as safe, prosperous, and fair as any most of us have ever known. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...unpopular.html
David Freedlander wrote this assessment for New York magazine.
It's worth nothing again that people here (Republicans?) were unfairly insulting him before he settled into office, and most of the insults over the years were ad hominem, it seemed to me.
Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted Yet as the mayor prepares to leave office, he remains stubbornly unpopular.
He ended stop and frisk, and crime fell. He told rich people they could move away for all he cared, and more came. He raised wages, and businesses flooded into the city. The New York City budget under de Blasio has grown from $77 billion to more than $100 billion, not because he increased any taxes on the rich (he tried to, but Andrew Cuomo wouldn’t allow it) but because his tenure was defined by extraordinary economic growth — growth that has, arguably, lessened rather than widened the city’s yawning inequality. For all of us who have spent the past eight years grumbling about de Blasio, which, to be clear, is all of us, we have gotten to live in a city that is as safe, prosperous, and fair as any most of us have ever known. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...unpopular.html
Unfairly insulting him? That's hilarious. I have been at functions that were loaded with Democrats where people would complain about him and his incompetence, so in a City that is overwhelmingly Democratic in terms of registered Democrats, no, it wasn't just Republicans.
The person who wrote this is delusional. Crime being at record lows? lol
hhaha he increased crime, somehow did a great thing with pre k then ruined the next 13 years of school, couldn't balance a budget in a great economy for six years PRE COVID then went crying to the federal gov't to bail him out.
His handling of covid was a joke as well. He ENCOURAGED people to go out when covid first hit, refused to close down the schools for weeks when we didn't know how bad it was, but then by September 2020 when it was clear covid barely impacted children basically left the schools closed for another year, had absurd vaccine mandates hurting restaurants even further. He closed parks and took down basketball hoops in the spring and summer of 2020 to "stop the spread" but encouraged groups of thousands to protest in the street. Apparently a park with 10 kids playing is a covid super spreader but not large groups protesting screaming at the top of their lungs.
All he had to do was not fumble the football after the jobs Guliani and Bloomerberg did and he couldn't even manage that.
David Freedlander wrote this assessment for New York magazine.
It's worth nothing again that people here (Republicans?) were unfairly insulting him before he settled into office, and most of the insults over the years were ad hominem, it seemed to me.
Then how would you reconcile your statement with this quote:
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Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted Yet as the mayor prepares to leave office, he remains stubbornly unpopular.
If your statement was true, and BdB was unpopular only with Republicans who were "unfairly" insulting him, wouldn't he be VERY popular in NYC, an overwhelmingly Democrat city?
hhaha he increased crime, somehow did a great thing with pre k then ruined the next 13 years of school, couldn't balance a budget in a great economy for six years PRE COVID then went crying to the federal gov't to bail him out.
His handling of covid was a joke as well. He ENCOURAGED people to go out when covid first hit, refused to close down the schools for weeks when we didn't know how bad it was, but then by September 2020 when it was clear covid barely impacted children basically left the schools closed for another year, had absurd vaccine mandates hurting restaurants even further. He closed parks and took down basketball hoops in the spring and summer of 2020 to "stop the spread" but encouraged groups of thousands to protest in the street. Apparently a park with 10 kids playing is a covid super spreader but not large groups protesting screaming at the top of their lungs.
All he had to do was not fumble the football after the jobs Guliani and Bloomerberg did and he couldn't even manage that.
Not only DeBlasio, but this was the idiotic mindset among most liberals
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