{"id":91267,"date":"2020-10-17T02:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-big-effort-to-push-mccray-into-politics-fizzles-out\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T02:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:15:46","slug":"de-blasios-big-effort-to-push-mccray-into-politics-fizzles-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-big-effort-to-push-mccray-into-politics-fizzles-out\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio’s big effort to push McCray into politics fizzles out"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio’s big effort to push McCray into politics fizzles out<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Mayor Bill de Blasio spared no expense to burnish the image of his wife, Chirlane McCray \u2014 but like many of his big bucks plans it all came to nothing.<\/p>\n

Hizzoner\u2019s effort to use millions in tax payer money to make McCray a political star came crashing down this week when the city\u2019s First Lady changed course and declared she would not run for Brooklyn Borough President.<\/p>\n

Throughout his time in office de Blasio set McCray up to follow in the family\u2019s politics biz, including giving her a staff that in recent years grew to a size larger than any First Lady\u2019s in recent memory.<\/p>\n

The McCray team had a $2 million payroll, and as recently as August included a chief-of-staff, senior adviser, speechwriter and a videographer.\u00a0 At one point civil rights activist and political heavy hitter Rachel Nordlinger was McCray\u2019s top lieutenant.<\/p>\n

Hoping to give her a huge feather in her cap, de Blasio also made his wife the face of City Hall\u2019s much-ballyhooed ThriveNYC mental health initiative in November 2015.<\/p>\n

But the program has burned through an estimated $1 billion, while being blasted for showing little success in helping the needy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a five-year exercise in futility and that hinged on not only the First Lady\u2019s popularity but also the Mayor\u2019s,\u201d said Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island). \u201cThings would have been different if Thrive was successful in its mission. But that\u2019s just not the record that she could run on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Borough President contest was shaping up to be a difficult one thanks to a crowded field and her husband\u2019s heavily criticized handling of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray eat outside at Melba\u2019s restaurant at 300 W 114th Street.<\/span>William Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s Bill de Blasio\u2019s idea of what she should be doing, not what she would inherently do,\u201d one person who knows the first family said. \u201cI\u2019m glad that she did what was truer to her heart than what her husband wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another former insider said: \u201cI would guess that if COVID hadn\u2019t happ<\/a>ened along with everything else that\u2019s made the last year miserable, she\u2019d be running.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think she\u2019s ever liked being in the spotlight, but it\u2019s something that he thought would be good for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has fallen victim to how people feel about him,\u201d the person added.<\/p>\n

De Blasio\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new state lockdown orders for heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn would have likely been the latest obstacle in any bid.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you don\u2019t need Orthodox Jews as a bloc to win Brooklyn boro-wide, but you sure can\u2019t win if they are unified and edging to vote against you,\u201d one veteran political strategist noted.<\/p>\n

Eight other people have filed paperwork with the Campaign Finance Board to run for the high profile but largely ceremonial post, including two prominent Democratic councilmen \u2014 Robert Cornegy and Antonio Reynoso, both of whom complimented McCray following her announcement.<\/p>\n

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Mayor de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray paint \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on 5th Avenue in front of Trump Tower.<\/span>Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The back-slapping nature of campaigns was always set to be an awkward fit for the oft-shy and reserved McCray. The crowded field, coronavirus and inseparable ties to her heavily criticized husband threatened to turn a campaign she never desired into a slog.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very clear that she this was never thing that she would ever naturally do,\u201d added a former staffer. \u201cShe is an introvert, true to the word. She\u2019s not someone who enjoys working the room and doing the sort of glad-handing necessary for any kind of necessary race.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the First Lady did not permanently slam the door on a potential future run for office when she told New York 1 that she would not run for office in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Lady surprised the Mayor and public when she first expressed interest in running for public office more than a year ago,\u201d said McCray spokeswoman Chanel Caraway. \u201cBut the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as usual, exposing deep social<\/a> and economic inequity, which the First Lady is focused on to help our City come back stronger.\u201d
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