Posted on 09/14/2017 10:11:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled one step closer to re-election on Tuesday night, coasting to the Democratic nomination by easily defeating a handful of little-known challengers who struggled to gain traction for their criticisms of the mayor and his administration.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, de Blasio led the field with 74.6 percent of the vote, according to preliminary Board of Election data published on Tuesday.
The easy victory comes four years after de Blasio, a former City Councilman and public advocate, vaulted to prominence by winning a crowded Democratic primary on a left-leaning message of fighting income inequality, improving police community relations and building affordable housing.
De Blasio echoed that theme in a victory speech on Tuesday night before laying out a loose agenda for his second term.
“We’ve got more to do. I’ve seen up close the challenges too, I’ve seen the ways we still need to build a fairer city and I’m not going to stop until we build that fairer city for every New Yorker,” de Blasio said to a crowd of roughly 200 supporters at Roulette, a concert hall in downtown Brooklyn.
The mayor, introduced by his wife Chirlane McCray, revisited some accomplishments of his first term, including universal pre-K and continued drops in crime.
De Blasio, who has struggled to define his national profile as he seeks to position himself as a foil to President Donald Trump, made no mention of the president or his Republican challenger Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.
Despite calling the primary win a “resounding victory” he encouraged supporters to continue volunteering their time and donating their money to his campaign.
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What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development….
Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That’s a world I’d love to see, and I think what we have, in this city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on one level. They’d love to have a very, very powerful government, including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their day-to-day reality.
This is mind-boggling. The mayor of the world’s financial center, the hub of American and global capitalism, thinks that the obstacle to progress is private property, the institutional system that has brought billions of people around the world out of back-breaking poverty. Thinks that politicians should determine where building should be built and “who gets to live in it.” Thinks that the people of enterprising New York City have a widespread impulse toward socialism and comprehensive, coercive central planning.
Mayor de Blasio says he’d like to have the power to determine what happens on every piece of land in the city. Other leaders have had such power, in the Soviet Union and China and Venezuela, and those systems did not produce progress. Or even toilet paper.
I’ve never questioned my decision to leave NY but only whether I’ve moved far enough south.
How come the Forces of Darkness are allowed to take over two of my favorite places, California and New England including NYC?
I’ll 2nd that!
New Yorkers show once again why they don’t deserve freedom, and why we don’t want them befouling our locales with their statist politics
NYC = EU! Suicidal!
Comrades, score another win for the People’s Republic of New York!!!
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IMHO
Comrades, score another win for the People’s Republic of New York!!!
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IMHO
That tells me that the Democrat Party and their base in NYC is insane...........................
He wants to be president. He is even worse than hillary or bammy. He is an arrogant America-hating marxist.
Question: Will the Republican party nominate a sacrificial lamb?
NYC is practically majority 3rd world imports plus the liberal Jewish democrat devotees. They love their Wilhelm and they deserve him too. I’m a former NY’er and glad to live away from that overwhelming ripoff by leftists.
The turnout was ridiculously low, as Nicole Malliotakis pointed out.
Even the other main Democrat, Sal Albanese (who is the Independence Party nominee), would be better than Comrade DeBloodio. But Malliotakis, the Republican-Conservative candidate, is the best choice.
(I just hope this doesn’t wind up looking like John Lindsay’s re-election.)
Never had ANY desire to live there or even to go there. Now,I have even less. DeBlasio could screw up a free lunch;& most likely will.
Never had ANY desire to live there or even to go there. Now,I have even less. DeBlasio could screw up a free lunch;& most likely will.
I’m still in NYC. 3rd generation. Grandparents escaped famine and no jobs in Ireland. They were grateful for the USA. I am too. But, not NYC. It’s time to escape this place. Unfortunately, my grown kids like it here. They can visit me anytime they want.
NYC has become a dumping ground for the nation’s freaks and kooks and the city electorally overwhelms the rest of the state. I still have some relatives there just waiting for retirement so they can split.
Fewer than fourteen percent of eligible Democratic voters turned out and he got 74.6 percent of those votes. So a little over 10 percent of Democrats are responsible for giving him the nomination and probably keeping this maggot in office. That means 96 percent of NYC Democrats are stupid enough to be okay with that.
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