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2017-07-08 Home Front: Politix

De Blasio's right: New Yorkers don't need him here

[NYPos] It took only a few hours in Germany -- where he rushed to, off almost without telling anyone -- for Mayor de Blasio to discover what New Yorkers have known all along: He isn’t actually needed at home.

Or, as the mayor put it in a transatlantic call-in to Brian Lehrer’s radio show, "All the issues that need to be attended to, I am attending to . . . regardless of where I am."

In other words, no one actually needs Bill de Blasio to be at City Hall. Which is how he justifies spending his mornings at the gym in Brooklyn and jaunting off to protest global summits in Europe.

He may be right. After all, as his GOP opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, noted: "He can’t even run the city when he’s here."

And that’s not the only revelation de Blasio has experienced in Hamburg. He’s also discovered something else every New Yorker has known for decades: Ignoring low-level, quality-of-life crimes destroys the city’s quality of life.

So the same mayor who professes his allegiance to Broken Windows policing -- but helped decriminalize such offenses as public urination -- now says he wishes he could ban panhandling because it makes him so "frustrated."

"I’m saying that not as a matter of policy, I’m saying that as a human being," de Blasio suggested. "I think it’s off-putting."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-08 02:24|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Kaiser Wilhelm, or as teh NY Post calls him, Mayor Putz

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-08 07:57|| 2017-07-08 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The New York Post must not think much of de Blasio. Another article was posted on 7-7 entitled: Comrade de Blasio doesn’t care about New York. A wag posted: "And we don't care much about him either."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-08 10:28|| 2017-07-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 He’s also discovered something else every New Yorker has known for decades: Ignoring low-level, quality-of-life crimes destroys the city’s quality of life.

Also - homeless population in NYC up by nearly 40 percent this year.

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-08 11:56|| 2017-07-08 11:56|| Front Page Top

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