Bill de Blasio
Traveled to New York on the 5th, actually saw him close up.
(I won't say when or where for security)
He didn't speak to me, but he was on the phone talking about issues non stop for quite a while.
I have not followed New York City politics, but from reading I gather he got a lot of flack from the NYPD.
I also read the investigation into his campaign finances was dropped.
As an onlooker from a distance, he seems to be a peoples advocate, I believe that was actually a position he held at one time.
It also suprises me he seems to get bashed a lot by the Times and New Yorker magazine, considering how much of an improvement he is over Giuliani.
I would find it interesting to hear some New York City democrats perspective on their Mayor.
Thanks in advance.
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or uptown?
anyway, I saw this in the Post -
"Mayor de Blasio touted the city’s safety and his plan to reduce emissions in the Big Apple at two global conferences in Midtown on Monday.
The mayor quickly attacked President Trump for backing out of the Paris climate accords at the first event, a meeting of the C40 Climate Leadership Group, and talked up his plan to fine city building owners if they don’t meet emissions goals.
He blamed businesses in the city for not offering suggestions that may have made pushing for a new emissions law unnecessary.
“We spent several years talking to our colleagues in the business community, in the private sector, looking for voluntary measures that would work, looking for enough progress to not necessitate a mandate, but we did not see it,” he said.
“Meanwhile, the Earth was waiting and meanwhile, our national government was going in the wrong direction.”
At the second event, the Global Mayors Summit at the Grand Hyatt, he noted that New York is “now the safest big city in America” — a point of pride since at least as early as 2013, the year before de Blasio became mayor."
http://nypost.com/2017/09/18/de-blasio-touts-citys-safety-plans-to-go-even-greener/
and I don't see what's not to like!
I mean, the guy's starting a program to help the poor get affordable housing, and the Times ripped him a new one saying it isn't working, rather than point out he is one of the few big city Mayors even trying to help these people.
But, I am a distant spectator...
In my time window, I didn't want to wander too far from the Pennsylvania.
But there was more than enough to fill my day within a few blocks.
I'm planning another visit someday.
