[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."
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Kaiser Wilhelm, or as teh NY Post calls him, Mayor Putz
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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."
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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.
[New Jersey.com} For two days next week, Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled to sit in as a guest host on sports-talk radio station WFAN 660-AM New York, an appearance a station spokeswoman called an audition.
Christie is slated to be heard on Monday and Tuesday instead of afternoon host Mike Francesa, the radio station posted on its website. The two days will be audition days, Jaime Saberito, a station spokesperson, said Friday, as Francesa is set to leave the station once his contract ends later this year.
Christie will host the 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. show along with Evan Roberts, a WFAN host. He isn't the only one slotted to audition next week. Mike Valenti from WXYT-FM 97.1 in Detroit, former National Football League quarterback Chris Simms, SNY's Brian Custer and NFL Network and WFAN contributor Kim Jones will also audition next week, the station said. Roberts and his midmorning co-host, Joe Benigno, are also scheduled to audition in the afternoon slot, the station said.
Mark Chernoff, the station's program director and vice president of its parent company, CBS Radio New York, previously told The Record he would consider the governor, whose term ends in January 2018.
"If he's interested and we're interested, it's worth pursuing," Chernoff said in February.
[TownHall] Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) gave an extremely candid response Wednesday evening at a Town Hall meeting when asked about the Senate GOP’s struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare despite years of complaining about it.
"I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win, I think most of my colleagues didn’t, so we didn’t expect to be in this situation," Senator Toomey said. I seem to recall some 54 individual votes (possibly more), all failed, by the House to repeal Obamacare. Someone must have thought it needed some rejiggering.
Toomey conceded that the GOP’s lack of preparedness with the healthcare bill was "a valid criticism," adding that "part of the reason is you’ve seen how difficult it is to get a Republican consensus."
"Given how difficult it is to get to a consensus it was hard to force that until there was a need to and so that’s what we’ve been working on," Toomey explained.
"I will also say that there’s been a new wrinkle in this," he continued. "The early version, the early idea of how we would handle this difficult challenge was to pass a repeal bill that would be pretty much a clean repeal, stabilize the individual market, and set the repeal several years hence and have the opportunity in the meantime to work out the reforms. That’s all been collapsed now into a shorter timeframe."
Toomey, was a member of the Senate GOP’s working group on healthcare. He said he believes the Senate is still "several weeks away from a vote." Senate GOP "working group?" And please tell us what the "working group" has accomplished.
The Pennsylvania Senator also commented on President Trump’s friction with the media, pointing out that "every President has had tension with the press. I think it’s best to ignore it."
"My assessment is it’s mixed," Toomey said of Trump’s Presidency so far.
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This guy wouldn't be in office were it not for Trumps coat tails.
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What he is saying is that the GOPe is just another side show of the WWE. The stunts are real, but it's orchestrated and fake, as in predetermined outcome. Enjoy the show peasants.
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PeeAye would be almost as red as Texas if Pissburgh and Eerie could be pawned off on WV and OH and Philthy could be annexed to NJ. Nuke Scranton and Allentown. Job done.
Instead, we get a progression of Snarlin Arlen clones and the notoriously dim-witted Casey clan.
I'ma movin' to FL. Nuff said...
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Didn't expect him to win or worked hard for an acceptable establishment Hillary win?
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M. Murcek - Erie's congress critter is Mike Kelly, a Republican. He was voted in after Kathy Dahlkemper voted for Obamacare.
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Translation: "So, we hadn't had a chance to consult with our ownersmasters sponsors at the insurance companies so that they tell us what they wanted."
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[TownHall] Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) gave an extremely candid response Wednesday evening at a Town Hall meeting when asked about the Senate GOP’s struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare despite years of complaining about it.
