Bill de Blasio can’t seem to satisfy anyone
“You can no longer hide behind your black wife and children,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said on Saturday. “You are exposed. You are not doing the things you said you would do when you were interviewing for this job.”
Arzt says that progressives have already forgotten all of de Blasio’s gifts and are upset with him over his ill-fated presidential run, in which he challenged liberal icons Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
In the meantime, a growing number of lawmakers on the left, including two of the current three candidates running for mayor, are calling to lop off more than 20 percent of the NYPD’s $6 billion annual budget. Arzt doubts that will happen, since police won’t be able to protect the city’s residents on that allowance.
“It will be difficult to operate a police department where they’re taking off $1 billion,” he said. “I don’t know which programs are going to be affected. Reform won’t happen in the next year and a half.”
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