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De Blasio’s nightmare: New York’s mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.
The Politico ^ | December 22, 2014 | Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush

Posted on 12/22/2014 7:48:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t pay attention to the old politics.

In Obama’s case, it was a failure to recognize the threat posed to him by Republicans who didn’t buy into his calls for a post-partisan partnership with Congress. For New York’s ambitious liberal mayor, it was an inability to keep long-simmering tensions with the city’s traditionally powerful police department from boiling over in the last few days.

Just over a year after sailing into office with 72 percent of the vote on a message of transformational change, de Blasio found his mayoralty subsumed by a torrent of anger, unleashed by the murder of two police officers in Brooklyn Saturday by a troubled gunman who said he was killing “pigs” to avenge the deaths of two men by cops in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri. By Monday, de Blasio was lashing out at the press corps that covers him, trying to paper over public divisions with his own police commissioner and coping with what friends described as the emotional blow of facing public rejection by many in the nation’s biggest police force. “He’s pretty badly shaken” by the murders, one told us....

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billdeblasio; deblasio; ericgarner; ferguson; garner; michaelbrown; newyork; nypd; police
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To: Postman; sickoflibs

” absolutely!!! Dinkins redux.”

Why did you steal my post long before I posted it?


81 posted on 12/23/2014 10:17:34 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does NYC have a recall provision, for the mayor?


82 posted on 12/23/2014 10:19:35 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

No, but as I understand it, the governor can remove him.


83 posted on 12/23/2014 10:22:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: NFHale; sickoflibs; 2ndDivisionVet; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; Impy; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy

” This guy is an idiot AND a professional ideologue, and that makes him much more dangerous.

However... NYC voted him in. He’s their problem.”

Reason # 2,126,000 why you don’t live in NYC.


84 posted on 12/23/2014 10:25:00 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I understand NYC is now Hispanic and Black majority.


85 posted on 12/23/2014 10:26:30 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

I could never stand to be in NYC more than 2 days at a time. These days never!


86 posted on 12/23/2014 10:39:48 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I’ve never been there and have had no desire to go at all. IMO it’s vastly overrated.


87 posted on 12/23/2014 10:44:11 AM PST by caww
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To: mdmathis6

“Historic figures that have often had the worst behaviors associated with them have often had major disconnects with their fathers.”

What has always amazed me is how LIV idiots are drawn to POS like DeBlasio, Clinton and Obama. They all came from disfunctional families and yet they appeal to the masses.


88 posted on 12/23/2014 10:50:50 AM PST by vette6387
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And that is a nightmare for him how?


89 posted on 12/23/2014 10:56:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just over a year after sailing into office with 72 percent of the vote

lol
90 posted on 12/23/2014 10:59:49 AM PST by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: caww

It is also very expensive for a visitor. Double about anywhere else.


91 posted on 12/23/2014 10:59:57 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; All

Was NYC ever a good place to live?


92 posted on 12/23/2014 9:26:33 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: caww

How an you say NYC is vastly overrated if you’ve never even been there????

Makes no sense.

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93 posted on 12/23/2014 9:33:23 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

News and entertainment media


94 posted on 12/23/2014 9:36:39 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Not for me, I hate big cities.


95 posted on 12/24/2014 8:43:07 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I understand.


96 posted on 12/24/2014 9:46:36 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Great minds think alike. I look forward to having you steal one of my posts long before I post it as well. Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New year!


97 posted on 12/24/2014 6:22:55 PM PST by Postman (Flies on 0re0 know --it when they see it!)
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