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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 |
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