Please, Bo, it’s just time to go
A LOT TO DO IN NEXT FOUR YEARS
BOMBASTIC BO DIETL finished a distant sixth in the mayor’s race — but he’s already eyeing his next gig, offering himself up to be Mayor de Blasio’s envoy to President Trump.
Despite — or perhaps because of — his appearances in two televised debates on equal footing with de Blasio and Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis, and the more than $1.1 million he spent on the campaign, the ex-NYPD detective put up a dismal showing in Tuesday’s balloting — finishing with less than 1% of the vote.
He was beaten by three lesser-known third-party candidates. The only candidate he bested was one who once tried to hijack a plane at JFK Airport to go to Antarctica, Libertarian hopeful Aaron Commey.
“Disappointed — a bit,” Dietl (photo) told the Daily News on Wednesday. “But in the end, what’s the difference if you have 10%, 15%, or 1%? In the end, you lost.”
Dietl says he’ll never again run for office, but came up with a new idea Wednesday after posting a series of tweets pledging his support for Trump.
“I stayed far away from him during the campaign for obvious reasons, because the demographics of New York City hate him,” he said.
“If (de Blasio) doesn’t want to talk to the President, I would love to be his envoy to the President of the United States to try to get federal funding,” Dietl said. “I know (Trump) 35 years. I certainly can go to Washington and talk to the President, maybe play golf with the President, which I have many times.” True to form, he tweeted a parting shot at Staten Island Reform Party Chairman Frank Morano, who has been the target of his foulmouthed fury since the party endorsed a rival.
“I Lost last night but I’m still a multimillionaire your still a Fat Looser in the looser Reform party,” he wrote in a tweet he later deleted.