{"id":43363,"date":"2020-08-09T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/theres-no-masking-mayor-bill-de-blasios-apathy-for-nyc-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T02:30:00","slug":"theres-no-masking-mayor-bill-de-blasios-apathy-for-nyc-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-no-masking-mayor-bill-de-blasios-apathy-for-nyc-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#There\u2019s no masking Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s apathy for NYC: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348a9cf1791\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348a9cf1791\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-no-masking-mayor-bill-de-blasios-apathy-for-nyc-goodwin\/#Old_Joes_so_stereotypical\" >Old Joe\u2019s so stereotypical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-no-masking-mayor-bill-de-blasios-apathy-for-nyc-goodwin\/#%E2%80%98Fail-in_ballot_woe\" >\u2018Fail-in\u2019 ballot woe<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#There\u2019s no masking Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s apathy for NYC: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Bill de Blasio is officially the 109th mayor of New York City. I say officially because, in reality, he\u2019s New York\u2019s first mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The first mayor who doesn\u2019t care about the city.<\/p>\n<p>Not all his predecessors were above average, but de Blasio stands out for his indifference. Nothing makes him tick.<\/p>\n<p>Gotham, the closest thing our nation has ever had to the shining city upon a hill, is in a sharp and obvious downward spiral. With dizzying speed, more than two decades of prosperity and public safety are crashing to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent warnings that the bad old days were coming back were accurate, but in vain. The bad old days are here.<\/p>\n<p>Violent crime is soaring, the homeless are everywhere, empty storefronts proliferate and people are fleeing neighborhoods that were safe six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>And de Blasio shrugs.<\/p>\n<p>A toddler get killed by stray gunfire and he says it\u2019s \u201cnot acceptable.\u201d For weeks, he blamed the rise in crime on the court system, then denied he said what he repeatedly said.<\/p>\n<p>Now he blames the dramatic rise in murder and gunplay on the coronavirus and the weather, but says not to worry. He assured reporters the situation will \u201cturn around\u201d thanks to the police and because \u201csummer will be over soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He gets the worst possible press, his staff demonstrates against him and aides leave with a blast at his woeful work habits.<\/p>\n<p>He rarely responds, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently anesthetized to criticism. Even mockery doesn\u2019t arouse him.<\/p>\n<p>This could charitably be laid to a belief he marches to his own drummer. In truth, it\u2019s because there\u2019s no there there.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s so bad that critics have run out of words to describe how bad he is. A fellow city Democrat, Rep. Max Rose, was fuming during an interview about the mayor\u2019s performance when he delivered an insult that will be hard to beat. De\u2009Blasio, Rose said, is the worst mayor \u201cin the history of this great country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say the mayor is dumb or devoid of ambition. Bored with his job but loving the limelight, he\u2019s pivoting to a bread-and-circus approach.<\/p>\n<p>Painting \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower is the kind of performance art that gets his juices flowing. Recall he once flew to the Mexican border to spotlight the detention of illegal immigrants, but was last seen outside a fence, arguing with a security guard.<\/p>\n<p>Or the time he went to Iowa to campaign for Hillary Clinton, who wanted nothing to do with him. A year ago, during his own quixotic presidential bid, he drew 15 people to an Iowa event.<\/p>\n<p>He could see more people than that on any New York street corner \u2014 except the mayor doesn\u2019t walk around the city and talk to New Yorkers. Nor does he ride subways and buses. Businesses are dying by the thousands, but the mayor doesn\u2019t publicly shop or encourage others to.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, apropos of nothing, he said that \u201cmy advice to New Yorkers is don\u2019t buy a car, cars are the past, the future is mass transit, biking, hiking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hiking?<\/p>\n<p>This is a guy who, pre-COVID, had his police drivers chauffeur him from his Manhattan home to his gym in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>But now he\u2019s got that anti-car religion and pledges that \u201cgoing forward, I will never buy a car again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even this is misleading. De Blasio didn\u2019t buy the cars he rides in now, nor the one in his previous job, public advocate, where he used a city-owned car. So Detroit will not feel his personal boycott.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16108337\"><img alt=\"Upper West Side residents are fuming after the city dumped homeless people onto their neighborhood\u2019s hotels.\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Upper West Side residents are fuming after the city dumped homeless people into their neighborhood\u2019s hotels.<\/span><span>Helayne Seidman  <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His latest play for attention is setting up checkpoints at bridges and tunnels to force <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ers from most other states to obey a two-week quarantine. Gov. Andrew Cuomo first imposed the rule in late June, but de Blasio has apparently just now decided to enforce it. Those who break the rules could have to pony up $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important thing is the checkpoints are going to send a very important message that this quarantine law is serious,\u201d he said, apparently serious.<\/p>\n<p>The move is extra odd, given that coronavirus deaths have fallen sharply since the worst days of April and May. In fact, de Blasio\u2019s sudden interest likely reflects only his desire to get out from under Cuomo\u2019s shadow on the COVID front.<\/p>\n<p>His timing on taxes is as bad as his timing on checkpoints. Cuomo is resisting tax hikes for fear it will give high earners another reason to quit the city and state permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Not de Blasio. He wants tax hikes and doesn\u2019t care if the rich never come back. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of New Yorkers who are wealthy who are true believers in New York City and will stand and fight with us, and some may be fair-weathered friends, but they will be replaced by others,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>Reality begs to disagree, with chunks of the middle class also fleeing. There was nothing subtle about a Friday New York Times headline. \u201cLeaving New York: How to Choose the Right Suburb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article accepted it as a given that a race to the exits is underway, and the Gray Lady was offering help for those who have decided to go.<\/p>\n<p>The Post has been graphically revealing what is behind the flight. \u201cTerrified &#038; Angry on UWS,\u201d read a Friday headline splashed over two pages. The story and vivid pictures revealed that de Blasio\u2019s team moved vagrants, junkies and the mentally ill into three Upper West Side hotels, and the new neighbors are making themselves at home in parks and on the streets, much to the horror of area residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur community is terrified, angry and frightened,\u201d Dr. Megan Martin, who helped organize a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> group of some 1,700 New Yorkers, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Bess Fern, who is six months pregnant and the mother of a toddler daughter, told the paper in another report that she just put her apartment on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have definitely seen more crime, drugs and harassment in one week than in my whole experience growing up here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And Bill de Blasio shrugs.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Old_Joes_so_stereotypical\"><\/span>Old Joe\u2019s so stereotypical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First Joe Biden tells a black radio host that \u201cyou ain\u2019t black\u201d if you might vote for President Trump. Then he tells a Latino interviewer that Latinos are more diverse than African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The two comments are consistent with a stereotyped view of blacks. Biden believes that to be authentically black, you must vote for Democrats. Then he faults that conformity.<\/p>\n<p>The uproar persuades me he will name a black woman as his running mate. Given the mess he created, what choice does he have?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Fail-in_ballot_woe\"><\/span>\u2018Fail-in\u2019 ballot woe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Sue Goldstein, after experience watching election workers, is terrified of universal mail-in voting. She writes: \u201cThe caliber of some individuals was questionable (addicts, alcoholics, young deadheads, older folks with dementia). 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I say officially because, in reality, he\u2019s New York\u2019s first mayor. The first mayor who doesn\u2019t care about the city. 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