DeBlasio played very hard to get for 5 months; very sweet quid pro quo?

[Divernan]

Cabinet appointment? VP slot? I expect he drove a very hard bargain.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bill-de-blasio-hillary-clinton-nyc-launch-rally-118825

De Blasio will skip Hillary Clinton's launch rally
(headline)

Hillary Clinton has planned a lavish campaign kickoff on New York City’s Roosevelt Island this Saturday, but one of the Big Apple’s Democratic heavyweights isn’t attending.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary confirmed to POLITICO Wednesday that the New York Democrat would not attend the rally. “I’m waiting to hear…her larger vision to addressing income inequality,” de Blasio said when asked about the event by Capital New York’s Azi Paybarah.

De Blasio has thus far refused to endorse Clinton, despite having managed her successful U.S. Senate campaign in 2000, and has kept his distance from the former secretary of state’s nascent campaign.

The New York mayor also did not attend another major Clinton speech in his backyard in late April. Then, the former secretary of state made headlines in an appearance at New York’s Columbia University for declaring that “it’s time to end the era of mass incarceration” and coming out against many of her husband’s 1990s-era criminal justice policies.

De Blasio has sought to establish himself as a national progressive leader in his first year in office, leading calls for raising the minimum wage and aligning himself with progressive favorites like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Earlier this year de Blasio, Warren and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz unveiled a 13-point “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality” in an attempt to outline a leftward agenda before the 2016 campaign fully takes off.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/15/de-blasio-still-waiting-on-hillarys-vision/

De Blasio says Hillary Clinton lacks 'vision' (Headline)

Even after delivering a campaign speech packed with eat-the-rich rhetoric, Hillary Clinton was still unable Sunday to win an endorsement from her far-left-leaning former protégé, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I’ve been waiting to hear a vision,” de Blasio said. “She’s doing more each time to give us a clearer picture, and I’m very optimistic, but we’ve got to see the plan of how she’s going to turn around this horrible income-inequality problem.”

In her Saturday campaign kickoff rally on Roosevelt Island, Clinton pledged support for gay rights, universal pre-K, paid family leave and higher wages for workers — all while vowing to keep corporate CEOs and hedge-fund managers in check.

But it wasn’t enough for de Blasio, who seeks to be a progressive kingmaker.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/peter-king-de-blasios-absence-from-clinton-rally-a-knife-in#.hcO6jJvzd

Peter King: De Blasio’s Absence From Clinton Rally “A Knife In The Back”

“She’s saying all the things now that de Blasio is saying. I guess de Blasio’s answer is that he really means them, and she doesn’t.”

[giftedgirl77]

1. Hahaha, under the bus he goes.

Everyone must be wrong or being bribed.

[DURHAM D]

2. de Blasio didn't get a thing.

He totally misjudged his relevance.




ETA: The President and V-President can not be from the same state.

[rug]

3. He can't be VP unless one of them changes residency.

[JackInGreen]

4. "Lavish"

Something I don't think we'll hear used about Bernie.
ever

[tularetom]

5. I wonder what he heard from her about income inequality that changed his mind

I mean, I know she said she's against it, but then when asked about a specific proposal to do something about it ($15 minimum wage), well, that was too radical for her.

So I have to conclude that de Blasio has either been threatened with being put on the Clinton enemies list, or promised a prominent post in a Clinton administration.

It'll eventually come out, don't worry. We may not yet know what it is, but theres something there.

[azmom]

6. He will be rewarded. No doubt about it.

[NCTraveler]

7. So....

When Sanders stumped for Shumlin and received family favors it wasn't quid pro quo because Sanders wife was qualified for the two commission positions Shumlin gave to her. That was truly the only excuse given for the blatant cronyism.

Isn't De Blasio also qualified if he is offered the slot?

[BlueCaliDem]

8. More like "sour grapes". eom

[DURHAM D]

9. And then there is this -

http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-suggests-weak-support-for-a-second-de-blasio-term-1446145231

He will need the Clintons help to get re-elected.