Mayor de Blasio has the lowest poll ratings of any mayor of a large city in the U.S. Let's look into why... Why Bill de Blasio is so hated, explained https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/16/20694916/bill-de-blasio-2020-polls-eric-garner
Mayor de Blasio displays a complete lack of awareness... De Blasio unaware administration housed 100 ex-inmates at Queens hotel https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/de-blasio-unaware-admin-housed-100-ex-inmates-at-nyc-hotel/ Mayor de Blasio had no clue his administration is housing around 100 former Rikers Island inmates at a Wyndham hotel in Queens — even after a group of lawmakers wrote him a letter about the public safety concerns last month. “I don’t have knowledge of a single location with 100 former inmates,” de Blasio said on WNYC radio Friday after a neighbor of the Wyndham in Fresh Meadows called in about the hotel. “That doesn’t jibe with what I know. I don’t know of any place where there’s that kind of concentration of former inmates,” de Blasio said. In late July, Rep. Grace Meng, state Sens. John Liu and Toby Stavisky, Assembly members David Weprin and Nily Rozic, and Councilmen Barry Grodenchik and Peter Koo penned a letter to de Blasio voicing safety concerns from local residents. There have been five 911 calls about the Wyndham on 186th Street just this month. Two of the calls were for a “disorderly person refusing to leave.” The others were about a 34-year-old man “dizzy and vomiting,” a 50-year-old man with the same condition, and a 52-year-old woman who fell and hit her head, according to an NYPD spokeswoman. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the mayor’s decision to release 1,500 Rikers inmates for COVID-19 reasons has contributed to the Big Apple’s crime wave. Of those released, 13 percent were re-arrested including seven people for gun charges and one for a murder charge, according to City Hall data. A mayoral spokesman has said that re-offense rate is similar to that for non-coronavirus releases. Stavisky, who represents the Fresh Meadows community, rapped officials for placing inmates including ex-convicts from state prisons in the hotel “in the middle of the night.” “You want to work with the community. You don’t come in the middle of the night and dump people there. It’s a mistake. It’s disrespectful.” She found out about the placement in June when neighbors saw people from the hotel panhandling. Stavisky said the group that works with the ex-jailbirds, Exodus Transitional Services, has met with the local community board and is giving residents meals, MetroCards and job training. “We’re not a reactionary community. But we have to work cooperatively,” she said, adding that she believes in “rehabilitation.” The city signed a $835,000 contract with the group earlier this year, according to records. Exodus has given $50 gift cards to seven former inmates who participated in the “Rikers Island Public Memory Project to share their narrative of incarceration during COVID-19,” according to the group. A City Hall spokeswoman said the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice is housing people at the Wyndham who were recently released from jail to provide safe shelter during the pandemic. She said the population has decreased to 80 residents. “We have been in communication with local elected officials, and organized a tour of the facility on site to address any concerns. We’ve also had two additional community meeting between service providers who are providing programming and services on site, local elected officials, and community leaders. These conversations are ongoing,” the spokeswoman said.
Mayor de Blasio is deaf to reality... De Blasio calls to ‘tax the wealthy’ even as rich taxpayers flee NYC https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/de-blasio-calls-to-tax-the-wealthy-even-as-the-rich-flee-nyc/ Mayor de Blasio made a public plea Friday for taxing the rich and redistributing their money even as the Big Apple reels from a coronavirus-induced budget crisis that’s already caused well-heeled New Yorkers to head for the hills. “Help me tax the wealthy. Help me redistribute wealth. Help me build affordable housing in white communities if you want desegregation,” de Blasio said on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer” show after a caller asked about integrating public schools. “If you just talk about it and feel self-satisfied, god bless you,” de Blasio said to the caller who cited a New York Times podcast called ‘Nice White Parents” that argues white parents should do more to bring racial equality to schools. “That’s not actually going to change things. What changes things is redistribution of wealth. Tax the wealthy at a much higher level,” the mayor said, adding that he’d never heard of the podcast. “I just feel like this is a lot of cocktail party comfort going on rather than people honestly dealing with this issue,” he said. Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said the mayor should cut fat from the city’s budget instead of squeezing more funds out of his constituents. “Everyone should pay their fair share in taxes, but instead of begging for even more money from taxpayers, the mayor should consider cutting out the enormous waste in his bloated budgets with programs like ThriveNYC that have no measurable outcomes,” Holden said, citing the $1.25 billion mental health plan run by First Lady Chirlane McCray. “Middle-class residents are already being driven out of the city, and the ‘tax the wealthy’ mantra is just de Blasio’s code for continuing to use the middle-class as his cash cow because he considers everyone who makes a decent living as ‘wealthy.’ “We’re not fooled by this,” Holden said. Jay Martin, executive director of the real estate group the Community Housing Improvement Program, called out de Blasio for failing to bridge the gap between the city’s haves and have-nots. “In six years of economic boom times the mayor did nothing to help the poor and working class he claims to care about. His only solution to job loss is to put more people on government payroll. “His feckless actions have left the people of NYCHA to live in squalor, while he squanders taxpayer dollars for his political gain. New Yorkers of every political persuasion have had enough of his blundering,” Martin said. De Blasio is begging Albany for $5 billion in borrowing authority he says he needs to prevent the layoffs of 22,000 municipal workers and plug revenue shortfalls caused by the pandemic.Gov. Cuomo has warned that a push by some state legislators for a millionaire’s tax “in this environment in New York City, where we’re struggling…people might leave.” One Albany Democratic legislative insider mused that “the mayor must not be paying attention. “There’s certainly been movement to pass a statewide millionaires’ tax. We’re not going to do a state tax and a city tax. It would be a heavy lift. Didn’t he just ask us to approve a $5 billion loan?” Suffolk County officials are already welcoming wealthy vacationers and weekenders to stay put after Labor Day by providing local businesses with additional labor and personal protective equipment. Public school districts in those areas have seen their enrollment rise to their highest levels in decades. Kathryn Wilde, CEO for the business group The Partnership for New York City, said at least the urban exiles in Suffolk County are still paying state taxes. “We should be glad this is happening in Suffolk County rather than Florida,” she told The Post. New York’s highest income earners pay 43 percent of the city’s and 51 percent of the state’s income taxes, according to the Empire Center.
Welcome to Bill de Blasio's New York... NYPD's Chief Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass mugged on Upper West Side https://abc7ny.com/nypd-chief-chaplain-rabbi-alvin-kass-robbed-mugged/6398485/
As disorder rises, de Blasio is still finding new ways to handcuff cops https://nypost.com/2020/08/31/as-disorder-rises-de-blasio-still-finds-new-ways-to-handcuff-cops/ Mayor de Blasio just announced his latest step backward on crime: “We’re taking the Obama Foundation pledge” . . . to put more handcuffs on cops. With shootings in 2020 already exceeding recent totals for entire years, de Blasio released his plan to meet the Obama call for reducing police use of force — even though the NYPD set the national standard for minimal force even before he took office. Among the gimmicks: a proposed new “matrix” for cop discipline, with added penalties for violations ranging from the use of chokeholds to failing to activate bodycams to leaking information to the media. Punishments range from loss of vacation days to suspensions or terminations. Yet, as Police Commissioner Dermot Shea noted, the Blue Ribbon Panel acknowledged that “the NYPD has a strong discipline system” already “It’s not perfect, but it’s strong, and we do a lot of things well,” Shea said. And what besieged residents from the South Bronx to Southeast Queens to Bed-Stuy to the Upper West Side really need now is for cops to stop looking over their shoulders so they can do their jobs and quell the rising disorder on city streets. On Sunday night, a hundred guys on illegal dirt bikes roared up and down Broadway in Manhattan for hours — with no cops in sight the entire time. (You could hear the bikers gathering beforehand in The Bronx, too.) This weekly annoyance is just one more quality-of-life offense that’s going unpunished — signaling to every potential wrong-doer that the NYPD isn’t on the job. Gang-bangers shooting kids at a cookout on a summer evening in a city park. Sexual assaults in the subway. Mentally ill homeless exposing themselves to kids in the street. Those are the threats New Yorkers need their mayor to confront — instead of posturing to the Black Lives Matter crew or currying favor with an out-of-town foundation. Honor your oath of office, sir: Protect the public.
Deblasio will go down as the worst mayor in NYC history. People will talk about how incompetent he was 100 years from now. He is that bad !
It is almost like the dems are trying to lose the Presidential election. I have spoken to numerous liberals in LA recently that I have known for decades. Every single one of them expressed that they want to get the hell out of LA and they said it was because of the crazy leftest. I didn't even ask them. They were just super pissed off and expressed that to me. Again, that is coming from leftest. Several of them have previously describe themselves as socialist. Now, they want to escape the socialist in LA. LOL. LA is an absolute shithole just like NY. It is really not safe in most places in LA especially for women. The liberal mayor has expanded skid row to most of LA at this point.