New York Post

Blas’ ‘Never Mind’

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So Mayor de Blasio won’t be producing that list after all — the one of the “stunning number” of fat-cat donors he claims got rejected on their pleas for favors from City Hall. Indeed, he now says he never said he’d produce it.

We’re not surprised: No one else who’s looked into this could find them, either. But plenty of big-buck contributo­rs did get exactly what they were looking for.

A year ago, the mayor promised to produce “a whole lot of evidence” in short order to prove he runs a “clean and appropriat­e” government — said evidence to include that “stunning number” of disappoint­ed givers.

He later vowed to “give you that list when all this is cleared” — i.e., when the ongoing criminal investigat­ions ended.

Well, Acting US Attorney Joon Kim and Manhattan DA Cy Vance announced that de Blasio & Co. will face no criminal charges, but the “whole lot of evidence” isn’t coming.

De Blasio says he’ll honor his word by penning an op-ed with a few “examples for you that illustrate the point.”

For the record, Kim also declared that the investigat­ion had uncovered “several circumstan­ces in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting in his behalf solicited donations from individual­s who sought official favors from City Hall, after which the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors.”

Of course, as de Blasio has claimed before, his mentioning to city agencies that his fatcat friends needed a favor doesn’t mean he leaned on the agency to deliver.

Still, as Politico reported two years ago, more than two-thirds of the donors to his now-defunct Campaign For One New York were doing city business or seeking city action at the time they donated.

A few didn’t get what they wanted? Maybe. But some — like the donors who wanted horse-drawn carriages banned — lost out despite the mayor’s best efforts.

We wonder if de Blasio will have the chutzpah to cite that as an “example.”

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