The caged rat - New York City Mayor, Bill De Blasio
deposited the now un-sealed box back inside his office safe and spun the
dial.
The New York City curfew would start in a few hours and the National Guard would be on every corner watching to arrest violators. The curfew would cause the black radicals to go nuts and the White patriots would be screaming. When the lights go off in New York City, nobody was safe. The people thought M.I.T. jonathan Gruber was lying about ObamaCare, just wait until they learn about Bill De Blasio, the original corrupt official with a job in government. Maybe, he would have to change his name again.
DHS Department of Homeland Security would help him impose the New York City curfew in just a few hours. The streets of New York City would be closed and the internet connections would be cut off and all the businesses closed until further notice. The mayor would teach them a lesson, the rat wasn't caged just yet.
The secrets of the National Action Network and people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all with their own red taint of Communism were on the first few pages. Everybody wanted Bill De Blasio fired and some even wanted him in jail but Holder told him he couldn't be charged with terrorism no matter what he said as a public and elected official. The DHS Department of Homeland Security also had officers on the streets today, their transports parked a few blocks and held out of sight like the national guard units called up last night. If there was trouble, the mayor was ready even making sure his own personal concealed pistol was loaded and ready.
His plan to lure the protesters back out and onto the city streets would have to wait a few days, the dead NYPD cops fractured the plan for a moment, but not too long. His plan was not airtight but neither was the election, but he won the mayors race. As Al Sharpton played the game of race pimping and the mayor playing the victim the black radicals were starting to surface just a little. Their incompetence and malice always amazed the con man mayor but he loved using the little people. It was irrevocable now, the government controlled the food, communications and the liberal progressives were buried deep inside the government and the national media, on the shadow side.
DHS Department of Homeland Security would help him impose the New York City curfew in just a few hours. The streets of New York City would be closed and the internet connections would be cut off and all the businesses closed until further notice. The mayor would teach them a lesson, the rat wasn't caged just yet.
The secrets of the National Action Network and people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all with their own red taint of Communism were on the first few pages. Everybody wanted Bill De Blasio fired and some even wanted him in jail but Holder told him he couldn't be charged with terrorism no matter what he said as a public and elected official. The DHS Department of Homeland Security also had officers on the streets today, their transports parked a few blocks and held out of sight like the national guard units called up last night. If there was trouble, the mayor was ready even making sure his own personal concealed pistol was loaded and ready.
His plan to lure the protesters back out and onto the city streets would have to wait a few days, the dead NYPD cops fractured the plan for a moment, but not too long. His plan was not airtight but neither was the election, but he won the mayors race. As Al Sharpton played the game of race pimping and the mayor playing the victim the black radicals were starting to surface just a little. Their incompetence and malice always amazed the con man mayor but he loved using the little people. It was irrevocable now, the government controlled the food, communications and the liberal progressives were buried deep inside the government and the national media, on the shadow side.
The once sealed box now safe and sound
behind the steel doors of his office safe contained the names of the community
leaders that would have to be removed. These people would have to become targets of the administration. He smiled about the comments about pigs in the blanket, pigs with wings, how perfect the deadly words had become in recent days. All over the internet and talk radio they wanted the mayor to resign comparing him to a caged rat and ready for the slaughter.
If the winning strategy was to play out all the paper notes and the ledger inside his safe would have to be destroyed at some point. The neatly written notes listed the names of the people that had hurt him and he always kept detailed notes using ink.
Sympathizers for the constitution and other patriot guerrillas would have to be jailed or worse. Nobody ever really knew how these New York Villagers would react living in their pig swill just blocks away. These people belonged in North Korea under some kind of dictatorship or maybe in Syria or Iran under Islamic Muslim law. The mayor knew very well, or at least had a strong sense that his words were the path to murder. He had the Negro's convinced that the cops were racist killers, cop killers and protesters never mixed too well and he kept taunting them and the NYPD.
After the Mayor got outside, the mayor noticed a guy flipping a cigarette butt down on the city street and crushing it on his pavement but he would always continue to use the children to get the tax even if Gardner and Brown paid the price. He would remind people to call 911 if they needed some help so he pointed to the smoker and the police approached him about littering.
If the winning strategy was to play out all the paper notes and the ledger inside his safe would have to be destroyed at some point. The neatly written notes listed the names of the people that had hurt him and he always kept detailed notes using ink.
Sympathizers for the constitution and other patriot guerrillas would have to be jailed or worse. Nobody ever really knew how these New York Villagers would react living in their pig swill just blocks away. These people belonged in North Korea under some kind of dictatorship or maybe in Syria or Iran under Islamic Muslim law. The mayor knew very well, or at least had a strong sense that his words were the path to murder. He had the Negro's convinced that the cops were racist killers, cop killers and protesters never mixed too well and he kept taunting them and the NYPD.
After the Mayor got outside, the mayor noticed a guy flipping a cigarette butt down on the city street and crushing it on his pavement but he would always continue to use the children to get the tax even if Gardner and Brown paid the price. He would remind people to call 911 if they needed some help so he pointed to the smoker and the police approached him about littering.
The New York City mayor was forced to
stand there during this most recent news conference with all the community
leaders assembled and listen to their ranting about dead cops. The liberal progressive socialists always gave the same speech if it was about gasoline prices, cigarette prices or even the killing of the two New York City cops. The mayor had 35,000 cops on the payroll and the way it looked half of them were in Brooklyn but they were guarding the mayor, not the people.
He had good perimeter security so he wasn't worried about getting shot by some White nut job. The mayor had cops in cars and even riding bicycles up and down the streets trying to find that one tea party patriot insurgent that maybe smuggled a gun or an un-taxed pack of cigarettes too close to the Mayor of New York. He knew that Gardner and Brown didn't die for nothing because they started the revolution, the revolution that the mayor wanted.
Here and there
he would nod approval as the nearby listeners were taking their notes and
recording their five o:clock news feed for local consumption. These reporters would supply the White soul food for their patriotic nut jobs on the internet and the cable channels and even talk radio. He looked around for some friendly New York City villagers but most everybody was pissed off or scared about the dead cops. The mayor should have never used his mixed race son as an example of police abuse but using children had always worked before. Barack Obama always used his daughters and fake black son to win another crowd while at the same time the President meticulously killed the constitution.
Standing there listening he already knew
that he was going to impose a twenty hour curfew in the city during which time
no person could leave their homes. It would be his Christmas present to all the Christians. He planned to close down New York City on Christmas eve and Christmas day due to security reasons.
He
would close the schools and every business, big or small and suspend bus
services and everything else, there would be no Christmas parties, package deliveries and worse yet the restaurants would be closed. How long
these measures would last depended on Al because he was the boss right now if
only for twenty hours or so. The mayor looked up and saw his security detail doing a body search on some White guy which served to confirm his fears of White patriots. The IRS had the right idea, shut down their free speech and get serious about free speech restrictions.
The Tea Party spent all their time trying to magnify little problems like a couple of dead cops. They could care less about Cubans starving to death as long as the shopkeepers had money in the bank.
These patriots were dangerous and the survivalists and Prepper's were worse as they stockpiled food, guns, ammunition and could begin their own search and destroy operations at any time. The mayor had security forces always looking for these insurgent patriots because of their belief in their draconian worthless constitutional measures.
They still wanted every household to have the right to keep and bear arms which means that they're trying to spawn some kind of revolution. These local idiots can't figure out their own welfare checks let alone figure out that only government should have guns.
The mayor would denounce the violence
against the police and with a fine piece of theatrics he would lower his head,
almost bowing to the citizens of New York. The human suffering act can only last so long and the curfew would change the headlines even though he also planned to turn off the internet and shut down the printing presses. He would starve his enemies out of New York and his new taxes would hurry them along. His emergency curfew and regulations in time would become the new freedom. Safe and clean streets, more bicycles and less cars, limited internet access and some good old fashioned police work to keep the criminals outside of the city limits.
From a tactical standpoint the news
conference had to come first and a small burst of violence had to be allowed and
arrests had to be made.
The mayor knew
that gradually the radicals would assemble again and start their chanting and
sign waving as the news crews filmed everything.
The people would want his stern actions to
restore peace on the streets and maybe he could get his hero status back. His plan of collective punishment against the
citizens would storm across the cable news channels and deep inside it made him
smile. He would flood the city with police fear and force and the radicals were bound to pull their pistols and morale across the city would collapse. He would blame the media.
The mayors sizeable police force after
all had to follow his orders even if his regiments of street cops were bitching
all the way. He was going to wield the
cops against the citizens and make large sweeps and arrest hundreds for
violating his curfew tonight. If they killed a single cop he would own the city and never give it back. The mayor was hobbled right now but the media is a cycle so dodging for a few hours was a lot easier than it looks.
Concentrating on the black areas the
hundreds of Negro arrests would start more and more violence so he would plan
to keep his cops in the black areas long enough to get themselves into trouble
and become targets.
The mayor was hoping
in some systematic way the jungle fighting would get started and the patrolling
officers would be forced into conducting searches, acquiring intelligence the
tough way and inevitably someone would pull a pistol. The police union was trying shore up their command authority in the absence of leadership from the mayors office but that too would change in a few minutes. The cops could surrender to his office or he would fire the police chief and police commissioner on national T.V. and watch the total disintegration of police authority, except for his own iron hand under his velvet glove.
Brooklyn New York was no better than
North Korea and the mayor now had the uniforms in his pocket. The bloods on the hands of the mayor comment
left the mayor no choice except to make his own cops the enemies of his plan. If everything went well he could expand the
curfew into a thirty day lock down and let his platoons of cops operating on
the edge of violence suffer another ambush.
He was done passively waiting for the riots and burnings like he saw in
Ferguson MO so silently he would stand there in front of the crowd of
reporters, waiting his turn to talk about the media being to blame, the leeches
of reporters were never pleasant.
The mayor looked to his left and then to
his right and all of a sudden he felt completely isolated, a feeling he would
not accept.
The mayor looked at Al Sharpton and
wondered how the idiot got hundreds of thousands of dollars from Comcast during
their buyout of NBC but it didn't really matter anymore. Al had won the day and had Barack Obama's ear
inside the White House but the mayor owned the street jungle of New York.
The mayor was not comfortable and this
would not be a glorious interview but maybe it would be effective as a purely
tactical move for the next step.
His planned security denial plan followed
by months of food shortages would turn New York City into his little village,
one way or another.
He would deliberately avoid the cops
funeral, but his intelligence gathering operatives would be there, and new
notes in the ledger book would have to be made.
Masquerading as the peoples mayor, it was
his turn, he put his head down just a little and slowly searched the crowd
while his armed guards looked on.
The interview, nothing buy fiction,
Early life and education
De Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr. in Manhattan, the son of
Maria (née de Blasio) and Warren Wilhelm.[1] His
father was of German ancestry, and his maternal grandparents, Giovanni and
Anna, were Italian immigrants[3][4] from the
city of Sant'Agata
de' Goti in the province
of Benevento.[5]
De Blasio was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6] De
Blasio's mother graduated from Smith College in
1938, and his father graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University. His
mother was 44 years old when he was born, and he has two older brothers, Steven
and Donald.[7] De
Blasio's grandfather, Donald Wilhelm, an author, graduated from Harvard
University.[7] Although
he was baptized Catholic, de Blasio is nonpracticing. He speaks Italian.[7]
De Blasio has stated that his father first left home
when he was seven years old and, shortly after, his parents divorced.[8] In a
2012 interview, de Blasio described his upbringing: "[My dad] was an
officer in the Pacific in
the army, [and fought] in an extraordinary number of very, very difficult,
horrible battles, including Okinawa.... And I think
honestly, as we now know about veterans who return, [he] was going through
physically and mentally a lot.... He was an alcoholic, and my mother and father
broke up very early on in the time I came along, and I was brought up by my
mother's family—that's the bottom line—the de Blasio family."[9] In
September 2013, de Blasio revealed that his father committed suicide in 1979
while suffering from incurable lung cancer.[10]
In 1983, he changed his name to Warren de
Blasio-Wilhelm, which he described in April 2012: "I started by putting
the name into my diploma, and then I hyphenated it legally when I finished NYU,
and then, more and more, I realized that was the right identity." By the
time he appeared on the public stage in 1990, he was using the name Bill de
Blasio as he explained he had been called "Bill" or "Billy"
in his personal life.[9] He did
not legally change over to this new name until 2002, when the discrepancy was
noted during an election.[11]
De Blasio received a B.A. from New
York University, majoring in metropolitan studies, a program in
urban studies, and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia
University's School of International and Public Affairs.[12] He is a
1981Harry S. Truman Scholar.[13]
Early career
De Blasio's first post-college job was part of the Urban Fellows Program for
the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice in 1984.[14][15] In
1987, shortly after completing graduate school at Columbia University, de
Blasio was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center in
Maryland. In 1988, de Blasio traveled with the Quixote Center to Nicaragua for 10
days to help distribute food and medicine during the Nicaraguan
Revolution. De Blasio was an ardent supporter of the ruling Sandinista government, which was at that
time opposed by the Reagan administration.[15]
After returning from Nicaragua, de Blasio moved to New
York City where he worked for a nonprofit
organization focused on improving health care in Central
America.[15] De
Blasio continued to support the Sandinistas in his spare time, joining a group
called the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, which held
meetings and fundraisers for the Sandinista political party.[15] De
Blasio's introduction to city politics came during David Dinkins' 1989
mayoral campaign, for which he was a volunteer coordinator.[16] Following
the campaign, de Blasio served as an aide in City
Hall.[17]
U.S.
Representative Charlie Rangel tapped
de Blasio to be his campaign manager for his successful 1994 re-election
bid.[18] In
1997, he was appointed to serve as the Regional Director for the United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for New York and New Jersey
under the administration of President Bill Clinton. As the
tri-state region's highest-ranking HUD official, de Blasio led a small
executive staff and took part in outreach to residents of substandard housing.[19][20] In
1999, he was elected a member of Community School Board 15.[21] He was
tapped to serve as campaign manager for Hillary
Rodham Clinton's successful United
States Senate bid in 2000.[21]
New York City Council (2001–2009)
Elections
In 2001, de Blasio decided to run for the New
York City Council's 39th district, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods
of Borough
Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble
Hill, Gowanus, Kensington, Park
Slope, and Windsor Terrace. He won the crowded primary election with
32% of the vote.[22] In the
general election, he defeated Republican Robert A. Bell by 71%–17%.[23] In
2003, he won re-election to a second term with 72% of the vote.[24] In
2005, he won re-election to a third term with 83% of the vote.[25]
Tenure
On the City Council, de Blasio passed legislation to
prevent landlord discrimination against tenants who hold federal housing
subsidy vouchers and helped pass the HIV/AIDS Housing Services Law, improving
housing services for low income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.[26][27] As head
of the City Council's General Welfare Committee, de Blasio helped pass the
Gender-Based Discrimination Protection Law to protect transgender New Yorkers
and passed the Domestic Partnership Recognition Law to ensure that same sex
couples in a legal partnership could enjoy the same legal benefits as
heterosexual couples in New York City.[28] During
his tenure, the General Welfare Committee also passed the Benefits Translation
for Immigrants Law, which helped non-English speakers access free language
assistance services when accessing government programs.[29]
Committee assignments
- Education;[30]
- Environmental
Protection;[31]
- Finance;[32]
- General
Welfare (Chair)[33]
- Technology
in Government.[34]
New York City Public Advocate (2010–2013)
Election
De Blasio speaking after being
inaugurated as New York City Public Advocate
In November 2008, he announced his candidacy for Public Advocate, entering a crowded field of candidates
vying for the Democratic nomination, which included former Public Advocate Mark J. Green. TheNew York Times endorsed
de Blasio in an editorial published during the primary, praising his efforts to
improve public schools and "[help] many less-fortunate New Yorkers with
food stamps, housing, and children's health" as a councilmember. The
editorial went on to declare de Blasio the best candidate for the job
"because he has shown that he can work well with Mayor Bloomberg when it
makes sense to do so while vehemently and eloquently opposing him when
justified".[35] His
candidacy was endorsed by then Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, former Mayor Ed Koch, former Governor Mario Cuomo, andReverend Al Sharpton.[36]
On September 15, 2009, de Blasio came in first in the
Democrat primary, garnering 33% of the vote.[37] He won
the run-off primary election on September 29, 2009 defeating Mark Green 62%–38%.[38] On
November 3, 2009, he defeated Republican Alex Zablocki 78%–18%.[39][40]
De Blasio was inaugurated as New York City's third Public Advocate on
January 1, 2010. In his inauguration speech, he challenged the administration
of Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
specifically criticizing Mayor Bloomberg's homelessness and education policies.[41]
Education
As Public Advocate, de Blasio repeatedly criticized
Mayor Bloomberg's education policies. He called for Cathie Black, Mayor
Bloomberg's nominee for New York City Schools Chancellor, to take part in public
forums and criticized her for not sending her own children to public schools.[42][43] In
March 2010, he spoke against an MTA proposal to
eliminate free MetroCards for students, arguing the measure would take a
significant toll on school attendance.[44] Three
months later, he voiced opposition to the mayor's proposed budget containing
more than $34 million in cuts to childcare services.[45]
In June 2011, de Blasio outlined a plan to improve the
process of school co-location, by which multiple schools are housed in one
building. His study found community input was often ignored by the mayor's
Department of Education, resulting in top-down decisions made without
sufficient regard for negative impact. He outlined eight solutions to improve
the process and incorporate community opinion into the decision-making process.[46] The
same month, he also criticized a proposal by the Bloomberg administration to
lay off more than 4,600 teachers to balance the city's budget, organizing
parents and communities against the proposed cuts and staging a last-minute
call-a-thon. Bloomberg restored the funding, agreeing to find savings elsewhere
in the budget.[47]
During his mayoral campaign, de Blasio outlined a plan
to raise taxes on residents earning over $500,000 a year to pay for universal pre-kindergarten programs
and to expand after-school programs at middle schools.[48][49] He also
plans to invest $150 million annually into the City University of New York to lower tuition and
improve degree programs.[49]
In September 2013, de Blasio voiced his opposition to charter schools, maintaining that their
funding saps resources from classes like art and physical education and
after-school programs. He outlined a plan to discontinue the policy of offering
rent-free space to the city's 183 charter schools and to place a moratorium on
the co-location of charters schools in public school buildings. "I won't
favor charters," says de Blasio. "Our central focus is traditional
public schools."[50] In
October 2013, nearly 20,000 demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to
protest de Blasio's proposal to charge rent to charter schools.[51]
Housing
In June 2010, de Blasio opposed a New York City Housing Authority decision to cut the
number of Section
8 vouchers issued to low-income New Yorkers. The cut was
announced after the NYCHA discovered it could not pay for approximately 2,600
vouchers that had already been issued. The Housing Authority reversed its
decision a month later.[52] Two
months later, he launched an online "NYC's Worst Landlords Watchlist"
to track landlords who failed to repair dangerous living conditions. The list
drew widespread media coverage and highlighted hundreds of landlords across the
city. "We want these landlords to feel like they're being watched,"
de Blasio told the Daily
News. "We need to shine a light on these folks to shame
them into action."[53]
Campaign finance
De Blasio has been a vocal opponent of Citizens United, the January 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision which overturned
portions of the 2002 McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. He
argued that "corporations should not be allowed to buy elections",
and launched a national campaign by elected officials to reverse the effects of
the court decision.[54]
Mayor of New York City (2014–present)
2013 election
On January 27, 2013, de Blasio announced his candidacy
for Mayor
of New York City in the fall election.[55][56]
The Democratic primary race included nine candidates,
among them Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, and
former New York City Comptroller and 2009 mayoral nominee Bill Thompson.[57][58] After
Weiner joined the race in April, early polls showed de Blasio in fourth or
fifth place.[59]
Bill de Blasio with his wife (left) and
children (right) at a rally in New York City in 2013.
Despite this poor starting position, de Blasio was able
to gain the endorsements of major Democratic clubs such as the Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan as
well as New York City's largest trade union, SEIU Local 1199. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Sarah
Jessica Parker and prominent politicians such as former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and
U.S. CongresswomanYvette
Clarke also gave endorsements.[60][61][62] By
August, Harry
Belafonte and Susan Sarandon had
endorsed de Blasio.[63]
De Blasio gained media attention during the campaign
when he and a dozen others, including city councillor Stephen Levin, were arrested while protesting the closing
of Long Island College Hospital.[64] Fellow
Democratic mayoral hopefuls Anthony Weiner and City Comptroller John Liu were also
at the protest but were not arrested. De Blasio and Levin were released a few
hours later with disorderly conduct summonses.[65]
Over time, de Blasio moved up in the polls and in
mid-August, for the first time, a poll showed him taking the Democratic lead.[66] He
reached 43 percent in a Quinnipiac poll released September 3.[67]
Preliminary results showed de Blasio winning the
September 10 primary election with 40.12% of the votes, slightly more than the
40% needed to avoid a runoff.[68] On
September 16, second-place finisher Bill Thompson conceded, citing the unlikelihood of
winning a runoff even if uncounted absentee and military ballots pushed de
Blasio below the 40% threshold. Thompson's withdrawal cleared the way for de
Blasio to become the Democratic nominee against Republican Joe Lhota in the
general election.[69] After
the Democratic primary, de Blasio was announced as the nominee on the Working
Families Party line.[70] The
issue that most aided de Blasio's primary victory was his unequivocal
opposition to "stop and frisk."[71]
In the general election, de Blasio defeated Lhota in a
landslide, winning 72.2% to 24%.[72] Voter
turnout for the 2013 election set a new record low of only 24 percent of
registered voters, which the New York Times attributed to the expectation of a
landslide.[73]
Tenure
De Blasio was sworn into office on January 1, 2014 by
former President Bill
Clinton. In his inaugural address, he reiterated his campaign pledge
to address "economic and social inequalities" within the city.[74] The
New York Times noted that "The elevation of an
assertive, tax-the-rich liberal to the nation's most prominent municipal office
has fanned hopes that hot-button causes like universal prekindergarten and
low-wage worker benefits... could be aided by the imprimatur of being proved
workable in New York".[75] De
Blasio selected Bill
Bratton to be New York City Police Commissioner, a
position he previously held under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Bratton,
who introduced stop-and-frisk under
Giuliani, promised it would be used "legally, respectfully" and less
frequently.[76][77] Some de
Blasio supporters were disappointed with Bratton's appointment.[78]
In the first weeks of de Blasio's mayorship New York
was struck by a series of snowstorms.[79] In
January, De Blasio was criticized by Upper East Side residents
when snow clearing seemed to be lagging in the wealthy neighborhood.[80] The
mayor apologized the next day, admitting that "more could have been done
to serve the Upper East Side."[80] On
February 13, 2014, heavy snowstorms again hit the East Coast. Under
instructions from the mayor and the school chancellor, Carmen Fariña, the
city's public schools were kept open. The decision was criticized by teacher
unions, parents and the media as the city saw up 9.5 inches of snow that day.[81] By the
middle of February, the city had been forced to add $35 million to the
Sanitation Department's budget for snow removal costs.[79]
In July 2014, De Blasio signed a bill that created
municipal ID card, securing benefits to all residents.[82]
Political positions
Transportation
Horse-drawn carriages
At a December 2013 news conference, de Blasio
reiterated that he would outlaw Central Park's
horse-drawn carriages once he took office, saying that he believes they are
inhumane. He said, "We are going to get rid of horse carriages,
period." He confirmed to the media that he hired legal counsel who will
deal with the legislative approach. To replace them, de Blasio has proposed
electric antique cars.[83]
Such a position incurred the opposition of carriage
supporters such as actor Liam
Neeson who in March 2014 challenged the mayor to visit the
Clinton Park Stables with him. The mayor declined saying he'd visit on his own.[84]
Transit service and traffic safety
In 2014, de Blasio released a report dedicated to
"better transit for New York City". Some of the ideas brought up in
the report were to rebuild Penn Station/Madison
Square Garden, create more bus rapid transit routes,[85] and a
"Vision Zero" initiative to reduce traffic-related deaths in the
city.[86]
Charter schools
Bill de Blasio's decision to deny the use of public
space to several New York City charter schools provoked
controversy. This decision overturned an arrangement made by the Bloomberg
administration which allowed for "co-locations" where charter schools
were housed in public school buildings.[87] The
mayor also revoked $200 million of capital funding which had been earmarked for
charter schools.[88]
The New York Times emphasized that de
Blasio approved fourteen charter school co-locations and denied approval for
just three, suggesting that the mayor is being unfairly cast as being opposed
to charter schools.[89]
Approximately two months after the initial decision,
the mayor's office announced that it had found space for the three schools. The
city will lease three buildings from the Archdiocese
of New York which were previously used as Catholic schools, and
will renovate and maintain the properties. The three charter schools are run by Success Academy Charter Schools.[90]
Universal Pre-K
Bill de Blasio is an advocate of "Universal
Pre-K," the availability of publicly funded pre-kindergarten for all NYC
residents.[91] De
Blasio sought to fund the program by increasing taxes on New York City
residents earning $500,000 or more.[92]
Personal life
De Blasio and his wife, activist and poet Chirlane McCray, met
while both were working for the Dinkins administration.[93] They
married in 1994 and honeymooned in Cuba.[15] They
live in Park
Slope, Brooklyn, with their two children, Dante, a high school
junior at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City, and
Chiara, a student at Santa
Clara University in California.[93][94][95] His
daughter Chiara addressed her own challenges with substance abuse and depression in late
December 2013, through a 4-minute video that the mayor's transition team
released.[96]
Standing at a height of almost 6 foot 6 inches, De
Blasio is the tallest mayor in New York's history.[97][98]
Controversies
In February 2014, Mayor de Blasio came under criticism
for making a call to the police shortly after a supporter of his was detained
by the police. Pastor Bishop Orlando Findlayter—the founder of the New Hope
Christian Fellowship Church, and a friend of de Blasio—was pulled over by the
police for failing to signal on a left turn. Bishop was then detained by police
on outstanding warrants and for driving with a suspended license.[99] de
Blasio is alleged to have called the police on Findlayter's behalf. Findlayter
was released shortly thereafter. In a press conference, de Blasio told
reporters that—while he had called the police to make an inquiry regarding
Bishop's arrest—he did not request the police to release Findlayter.[100]A
spokesperson for the mayor stated that the mayor's call occurred after the
police already had decided to release Bishop.[99] While
both the police and City Hall denied that the mayor asked for preferential
treatment, the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer,
stated that the mayor's behavior was problematic, because "[t]he rule is,
the mayor shouldn't be involved in any way about somebody's arrest."[101]
On December 3, 2014, de Blasio stated in a speech
following a grand jury decision not to indict NYPD
officer Daniel Panteleo in the death
of Eric Garner that he and his black wife
Chirlane McCray, had had many conversations[102] with their
son regarding taking "special care in any encounters he has with the
police officers who are there to protect him."[103] The
mayor explained that what he and his wife did was "What parents have done
for decades who have children of color, especially young men of color, [which]
is train them to be very careful whenever they have an encounter with a police
officer," adding "I have talked to many families of color. They have
had to have the same conversation with their sons."[104] In
response, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
of the City of New York, a labor union for police officers, issued a
flier encouraging members to request that de Blasio as well as Council Speaker
Melissa Mark-Vivereto not attend their funerals should they die in the line of
duty.[105] De
Blasio and Mark-Vivereto criticized the move, issuing a joint statement which
read in part: "Incendiary rhetoric like this serves only to divide the
city, and New Yorkers reject these tactics."[105] Following
the deaths of two NYPD officers in an "execution" style
"revenge" attack for Eric Garner, numerous police unions issued
statements blaming de Blasio for their deaths and police officers turned their
backs to the mayor when he visited the hospital where the two officers' bodies
were taken.[106]
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