{"id":69862,"date":"2020-09-18T02:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-de-blasios-city-hall-rife-with-dysfunction-new-emails-show\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T23:29:50","slug":"bill-de-blasios-city-hall-rife-with-dysfunction-new-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasios-city-hall-rife-with-dysfunction-new-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill de Blasio’s City Hall rife with dysfunction, new emails show"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill de Blasio’s City Hall rife with dysfunction, new emails show<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n New York is beset by a surge in deadly shootings, homeless have taken over city blocks amid the coronavirus lockdown and officials cannot get schools back open, but City Hall is taking one thing seriously \u2014 arguing the racial sensitivity of a proclamation to commemorate women\u2019s suffrage.<\/b><\/p>\n

The nod to the 100th anniversary of women\u2019s suffrage was supposed to just be a \u201cnote\u201d in Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s daily coronavirus briefing, but it ended up triggering a meltdown among his staffers, emails obtained by The Post show.<\/p>\n

The imbroglio is symptomatic of de Blasio\u2019s often capricious and insular management style that sources describe as \u201cemotionally, mentally and physically taxing\u201d \u2014 and a major contributor to City Hall\u2019s planning struggles and the exodus of administration staffers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is amateur hour. It\u2019s a bunch of people who have no idea how City Hall works running the show because everyone else has left,\u201d said one former staffer. \u201cThere are a lot of sharp elbows, it\u2019s very vicious and very personal \u2014 and it gets in the way of focusing on the work at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

The talking points prepared for de Blasio\u2019s briefing on Aug. 26 noted that segregation and other laws meant that \u201cnot all women could exercise that right\u201d to vote following the formal adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. \u201cWomen of color excluded \u2013 fought for decades for equal access,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

At 9:49 a.m., 11 minutes before the briefing was scheduled to begin, the email chain exploded.<\/p>\n

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Ashley Ross-Teel, who runs City Hall\u2019s social media accounts, demanded that the talking points explicitly point out that only white women initially gained access to the voting booth. And she criticized the talking points saying women of color were discriminated against, instead of singling out African American women.<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, but why wasn\u2019t white women added when it was flagged by [women of color],\u201d she wrote. \u201cAlso there is a growing negativity around incorporating Black women into WOC. Everyone\u2019s struggles are not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three minutes later, the author of the bullet points fired back.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause as a white woman, I find being negged for something that happ<\/a>ened 100 years ago unnecessarily confrontational in this context,\u201d wrote Marjorie Sweeney. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to bring people together here, not trying to score points off each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least two other high-ranking de Blasio aides were pulled into the fight, offering last-minute suggestions that were signed off on by de Blasio\u2019s recently hired $17,000-a-month special adviser, Peter Kauffmann at 10:03 am.<\/p>\n

The briefing was already late.<\/p>\n

De Blasio specifically referenced white women in his remarks that morning, but kept the initially proposed description of \u201cwomen of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot all women\u201d could vote, he said, referencing the notes, which are kept in a small black binder. \u201cOnly white women \u2014 women of color excluded and they had to fight for many decades more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afterward, his Chief of Staff Emma Wolfe chastised the staffers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis should never have been a debate, not the least of which over email,\u201d Wolfe wrote, demanding the communications staff find a \u201cmore professional process\u201d to haggle over their differences.<\/p>\n

Three former administration staffers said the blow-up is a symptom of the departure of experienced top aides, which they attributed to de Blasio\u2019s mercurial nature, the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and months of protests \u2014 including by his own staff \u2014 demanding police and civil rights reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will just blow everything up on a whim and it\u2019s a domino effect,\u201d one ex-staffer said. \u201cIt leads to avoidable last-minute scrambles on everything\u201d \u2014 from key policy decisions to the briefing notes.<\/p>\n

In theory, the work that goes into assembling the binder for de Blasio\u2019s briefings should be largely complete by the morning. But Hizzoner often demands last-minute rewrites for little reason right up until he walks into the briefing, another source said. That leaves everyone stressed and under-the-gun, leading to eruptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of really smart and dedicated people at City Hall who love New York and he prevents them from doing their jobs effectively,\u201d the person added. \u201cIt\u2019s him, it lies at the top, it really does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sources said the problems are particularly severe in the mayor\u2019s press and communications departments, which de Blasio depends on to help vet and roll out policy in addition to the typical duties of drafting speeches and handling reporter inquiries.<\/p>\n

The heads of both \u2014 former Press Secretary Freddi Goldstein and former Communications Director Wiley Norvell \u2014 quit on the same day in July without having lined up new jobs. Only Goldstein has been replaced so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cInfighting like this on an email chain, it\u2019s an example of dysfunction and the unhappiness people are feeling,\u201d added yet another person familiar.<\/p>\n

De Blasio press secretary Bill Neidhardt responded, \u201cDebating talking points is a basic function of all communications offices. That\u2019s what you\u2019re seeing here. In the end, the Mayor makes the call and he acknowledged our country\u2019s painful history of denying women of color the right to vote.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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