Posted on 10/09/2017 11:59:09 AM PDT by Hadean
The rain-soaked crowd demanded that the city's statue of Christopher Columbus stay put.
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — It rained on Bill de Blasio's parade Monday — in more ways than one. Crowds along Fifth Avenue showered the mayor with boos during the rain-soaked Columbus Day parade, demanding that the city not touch the landmark statue of the holiday's namesake at Columbus Circle.
De Blasio, a Democrat, has offered repeated assurances that the statue isn't going anywhere for now. A commission he appointed is reviewing the monument and others around the city that could be removed because they're symbols of oppression.
But that didn't convince the scores of New Yorkers who jeered the mayor, with some yelling phrases such as "Go home, Bill" and "Leave Columbus alone." "Save the statue, otherwise you're German!" one man shouted.
"This thing is just spreading," said Giovanna Moriello, who was among the revelers who jeered de Blasio. "They're taking down the statues down south — you can't cancel history."
De Blasio smiled through the boos, waving an Italian flag and joking with the firefighters who flanked him along the sparsely populated parade route. "I don't get lost in the critics," he told reporters before the parade. Staffers from the mayor's office and the NYPD ushered reporters ahead, keeping a greater distance between them and de Blasio than the press would have liked.
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Is there hope for NYC?
He’ll get re-elected in a landslide there, don’t be fooled.
Something is really broken in NYC.
No
They’re booing him b/c he’s not liberal enough.
He’s lost the Italian vote.
Guiliani did a good job, really. (All things considered)
It was safe to walk the streets in New York after him...
Liberal hysterics are running rampant... and there’s no one who will step forward and stem the flood
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
When he goes to a hotel, they give him an anvil to take with him when he goes swimming.
You bet they will. New Yawkahs loves them their socialists.
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
He went on a cruise and the Activities Director tied him to the anchor and said it was an adventure ride.
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
He went to Walt Disney World, “The Happiest Place On Earth!”
Everybody started crying because he was there.
Mickey Mouse came up and punched him in the nose.
He needs to run unopposed because he won’t beat anybody. Doesn’t stand a chance if there’s so much as an empty suit against himm. Just a feeling...
Besides, Indigenous People Circle just doesnt have the same ring to it as Columus Circle.
They will re-elect him in a landslide....................
They booed Bill de Blasio?
They didn’t have any rotten tomatoes to throw at him?
Or watermelons?
Apparently New Yorkers were unhappy with streets free of urinators and decided to bring Blasiuh in so he could get the streets overrun with vomiting derelicts again. You know. Get that unique NY atmosphere back.
Are they as big in NYC as they used to be?........................
I thought he wasn’t invited or was uninvited!
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