Blaz blew $1.4M on trail fail
Mayor de Blasio has nothing to show for his doomed presidential campaign, but it wasn’t for lack of spending.
Hizzoner burned through a little over $1 million from July through September while flying all over the country for low-attendance events, according to federal filings posted late Tuesday. That brings the total he squandered on his presidential bid to about $1.4 million.
De Blasio struggled to raise funds throughout his campaign. He got a paltry $333,045 from July through Sept. 30. He’d raised about $1.1 million from his May 16 launch to June 30.
Thousands of dollars in de Blasio’s latest fund-raising came from developers, members of the Hotel Trades Council — which has benefited from Hizzoner’s crackdown on home-sharing site Airbnb — and city employees, not to mention a gaggle of attorneys.
The mayor called it quits on his presidential run Sept. 20, drawing cheers from New Yorkers who said he needs to get back to work in the Big Apple.
His latest disclosure to the Federal Election Commission showed he’d repaid a $52,851 loan from a state political action committee that had drawn scrutiny from regulators. De Blasio had borrowed funds from his State Fairness PAC, possibly against the law — the latest in a series of fund-raising shenanigans from Hizzoner.
He hired his son Dante de Blasio as a “policy analyst” over the summer, paying him a less-than-princely sum of about $650 a week.
The new filing shows de Blasio mostly opted for budget accommodations when traveling to locales including Detroit, Iowa and Miami.
But in July, the mayor got a taste of the high life in Las Vegas, where he stayed at the luxury Mandalay Bay Hotel, which cost his campaign a cool $2,975.48.
De Blasio’s spending spree left him with just $43,400 left in his war chest — hardly a sum to enable him to live up to his dreams of becoming a political kingmaker in NYC or anywhere else.