Bill de Blasio

De Blasio to announce 2020 bid on ‘Good Morning America’
By Julia Marsh and Nolan Hicks May 15, 2019 | 5:58pm | Updated


Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at press conference inside Trump Tower.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will appear on “Good Morning America” Thursday, where he’s expected to officially announce his quixotic run for the White House.

He will then travel to Iowa after his appearance to stump for votes.

The Hawkeye State was a field of broken dreams last time Democrat de Blasio visited in February as he explored a presidential bid.

He drew crowds of fewer than 50 people, including one dozing attendee in Des Moines and chin-scratching comments like this one from Sioux City resident Vladimir Landman.

“I’ll be honest — I’m not 100% sure what he’s doing here,” said Landman who joined just 24 other people to hear de Blasio speak on Feb. 23.

This Friday De Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, will meet with the Asian Latino Coalition at a downtown coffee shop in Des Moines, according to event organizer Mitch Henry.

He may also meet with Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie and stop by Roosevelt High School, Henry said.

De Blasio is expected to continue on to South Carolina Saturday while his wife returns to New York.

He’ll go to Columbia and then Charleston on Sunday before flying back north for his son Dante’s graduation at Yale.

McCray already traveled to South Carolina in March with her husband as part of his visits to early primary states before he decided to run.

Cownie said Wednesday night that de Blasio reached out to him to schedule a meeting for Friday, but that no plans have been finalized yet.

“He is coming to Iowa,” said Cownie. “He did let me know he’s headed this way.”

He added: “He hasn’t said exactly what he’s going to say, but, you know, but has asked whether or not we can get together while he’s here.”

The two have visited before and worked together through the US Conference of Mayors.

They also met at a UN climate change event in New York City earlier this month. There, Cownie said that he directly asked de Blasio if he was going to join the 2020 race, but Hizzoner declined to give an up or down answer.

“I asked him and you know, quite frankly, he said ‘I’m taking a serious look at it,’” Downie said. “He [de Blasio] was trying to finalize the pros and cons of getting in there.”

https://nypost.com/2019/05/15/de-blasio-to-announce-2020-bid-on-good-morning-america/

De Blasio logged a 7-hour work month at City Hall
By Nolan Hicks September 2, 2019 | 9:47pm | Updated


Bill de Blasio / Getty Images

Mayor Bill de Blasio spent a mere seven hours — less than one full workday — at City Hall during the month he launched his bid for the White House, records reviewed by The Post show.

Hizzoner showed up at his office on just six occasions in May, taking part in two meetings, four events and five phone calls, one of which was his weekly appearance on WNYC radio, according to entries on his official calendar.

The 11 appointments amounted to a meager one-fifth of the 50 meetings, calls and other events at City Hall on de Blasio’s calendar for May 2018. He had a total 152 city events scheduled for the month.

One former aide said de Blasio’s virtual disappearance from the Big Apple’s official seat of power sent a troubling message.

“If he’s trying to show New Yorkers that he’s over doing the job, he’s doing a good job of it,” the ex-aide said.

Another former de Blasio insider called the mayor’s job performance “real bad.”

“At this point, you’ve got to wonder how much of his heart is really in it,” the source added.

De Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray kicked off his presidential campaign with a May 16 appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that drew raucous protests from groups as diverse as the Police Benevolent Association and Black Lives Matter.

This year’s schedule shows 66 calls or meetings while de Blasio was “en route” — meaning that he was being driven around New York City or on the campaign trail.

De Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein downplayed the importance of his whereabouts, saying, “Whether at City Hall, Gracie Mansion or on the road, the mayor consistently delivers for 8.6 million New Yorkers.”

A city resident apparently disagreed: A “wanted poster” appeared in Midtown last month.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio drops 2020 presidential bid
WHECTV, Created: September 20, 2019 07:58 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he's ending his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

De Blasio struggled to gain traction in a sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency. He announced his decision in an MSNBC interview on Friday.

De Blasio launched his bid in May, but his campaign largely failed to take off.

De Blasio says he feels he's contributed all he can "to this primary election." He tells MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show "it's clearly not my time."

It was a given that De Blasio would fail and delete his bid.
but-- seems he had fun playing with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deblasio-nicaragua-warren-wilhelm/

Glad he bowed out.


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