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De Blasio's years-long effort to push McCray into politics ends with a thud
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...spared no expense to burnish the image of his wife, Chirlane McCray — but like many of his big bucks plans it all came to nothing.Hizzoner’s effort to use millions in tax payer money to make McCray a political star came crashing down this week when the city’s First Lady changed course and declared she would not run for Brooklyn Borough President. Throughout his time in office de Blasio set McCray up to follow in the family’s politics biz, including giving her a staff that in recent years grew to a size larger than any First Lady’s in recent memory. The McCray team had a $2 million payroll, and as recently as August included a chief-of-staff, senior adviser, speechwriter and a videographer. At one point civil rights activist and political heavy hitter Rachel Nordlinger was McCray’s top lieutenant. Hoping to give her a huge feather in her cap, de Blasio also made his wife the face of City Hall’s much-ballyhooed ThriveNYC mental health initiative in November 2015. But the program has burned through an estimated $1 billion, while being blasted for showing little success in helping the needy. "It was a five-year exercise in futility and that hinged on not only the First Lady’s popularity but also the Mayor’s," said Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island). "Things would have been different if Thrive was successful in its mission. But that’s just not the record that she could run on." The Borough President contest was shaping up to be a difficult one thanks to a crowded field and her husband’s heavily criticized handling of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... Related: Chirlane McCray: 2020-10-14 Hunter Biden emails under investigation by Senate Homeland Security Committee after hard-drive report emerges Chirlane McCray: 2020-08-19 Chirlane McCray (Mrs. Bill de Blasio) enjoys $2M staff of 14 amid NYC budget crisis Chirlane McCray: 2020-07-12 De Blasio Tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer That He Is Banning All Large Gatherings in NYC Except For Black Lives Matter Riots Posted by: Fred 2020-10-17 |
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