Bill de Blasio would like to make clear that if he can’t be president, it’s his intention to speak out against Michael Bloomberg’s White House ambitions, quite loudly if necessary. gdebenedetti reports
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, it is very unusual that the two most recent mayors of New York City decided to run for president this year and their campaigns never even overlapped — because Bill de Blasio’s failed quickly, Michael Bloomberg took a year to decide to run, and because our presidential election process lasts longer than an elephant’s gestation period.
His predecessor’s political legacy and ambitions are “very personal for me, obviously. And I’m not someone who fails to recognize some good he did here — in fact, in his first term, I think he did a lot of good. But I saw how corroded it got. I saw how aggressively out of touch he got as time went by.” So now, de Blasio said, “I have a particular perspective. I spent six years undoing what he did, and having to fix a lot of things, a lot of which have not been accounted for publicly.
“It’s impossible to think of it as anything other than expedient. There were so many points after he left office where it would have been very natural to acknowledge he was wrong. I mean, year after year of crime going down after we got rid of stop-and-frisk. I remember, vividly, editorial boards acknowledging their own error in this area and saying, ‘We were wrong,’ very overtly.
While the former mayor himself seldom talks about his successor at all, some in Bloomberg’s orbit haven’t hesitated to skewer de Blasio, sometimes in personal terms. “This is driving de Blasio crazy,” said Bradley Tusk, a former Bloomberg adviser and campaign manager who is still close with his political circles. “De Blasio is someone who doesn’t like his day job of being mayor, only dreams of being involved in national issues, and his candidacy, like his mayoralty, was a total joke.
Here, too, de Blasio objected. While he pointed that out he supported some of Bloomberg’s public-health initiatives like smoking bans and soda size limits, he said he was “dubious of moderates who come bearing gifts” on health-care reform.
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