De Blasio’s Delusion: Running for Higher Office
THE ISSUE: Reports that Mayor de Blasio is mulling a run for the White House in 2020.
Maureen Callahan’s portrayal of Mayor de Blasio is both sagacious and accurate (“The emperor has no clues,” Feb. 13).
Her blistering piece aptly describes a politician who possesses a repugnant combination of arrogance, hypocrisy, ineptitude and sanctimony.
De Blasio’s perfunctory attitude and dismissive behavior toward the people and city he is sworn to serve reminds one of a Third World dictator.
His administration exudes corruption and criminality, yet no one is ever held to account. To call his mayoralty a disgrace would be an understatement.
James McCaffrey Yonkers
After reading Callahan’s brilliant column, you have to ask the question — can de Blasio’s ego get any bigger?
It’s laughable that the mayor thinks he has any chance to be president of the United States. All you have to do is look at his record — schools that graduate children who are unprepared for the future, the NYCHA issues that just go on and on, the increasing homeless problem that he refuses to ad- dress, the substantial decrease in the quality of life in this once-great city — to realize he should not be responsible for anything.
He is an arrogant, grandstanding fool. But then, he fits right in with the Democrats who have already declared for 2020.
Joseph Paino Manhattan
All of the points raised by Callahan on the wretched legacy of de Blasio are well-taken. However, other matters also taint his mayoralty.
The egregious and well-documented property-tax inequities in New York City have accelerated under de Blasio, whose affluent and politically connected Park Slope neighborhood and nearby gentrified areas enjoy the lowest residential property taxes in the city, while property taxes in outer-borough working-class neighborhoods have skyrocketed during his tenure.
Dennis Middlebrooks Brooklyn
De Blasio suffers from delusions of adequacy.
He has failed as a lounge act, yet believes he is ready for the main room. The new wave of progressive, socialist, anti-Israel, pro-late-stage-abortion Democrats are already well-represented in the upcoming presidential race.
Some of those contenders benefit from being virtually unknown to the voters. Unfortunately for the mayor, he has a wellestablished track record — one that proves he is incapable of governing a city, much less our nation.
Robert Mangi Westbury