Well look who's jumped on the fear-mongering, anti-Bill de Blasio (D) train:
http://politicker.com/...
“Get out of New York,” Glenn Beck warned his audience yesterday. “Why? Because of who the next mayor is going to be.”
Mr. Beck, the outspoken conservative who now has a program on TheBlaze TV, made clear he is very concerned about Bill de Blasio, the Democratic front-runner in this year’s mayoral race.
Mr. Beck held little back in the segment. He raged against Mr. de Blasio’s past support for the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and suggested an Anthony Weiner-related conspiracy designed to distract the public from Mr. de Blasio, whom he labeled a “Marxist communist with a history of supporting terrorism”–with dramatic music playing all the while. - Politicker, 10/2/13
Here's a little more craziness from Beck:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Beck says de Blasio makes "Herr Bloomberg" "look like Sam Adams." (For context, Beck once photoshopped Mayor Michael Bloomberg doing a Nazi salute. )
Beck's concern about the mayoral candidate was prompted by the New York Times cover story from 10 days ago about a young de Blasio's trip to support the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 1970s.
"By the way, I don't ask you to believe me. Do your own homework on this," Glenn says at the end of TheBlaze segment, which Gothamist flagged Wednsday morning.
Yes, seriously, do your homework everyone. Like this would be a good place to start. Or maybe listen to an actual socialist's thoughts on de Blasio.
"That [de Blasio], like so many other Americans from that period, didn’t like the fact that the Reagan administration was trying to undermine the government of Nicaragua, that certainly doesn’t make him a radical or a Marxist or socialist," Frank Llewellyn, executive director of the Democratic Socialists of America, told DNAinfo recently. - Huffington Post, 10/2/13
While Beck is out trying to scare New Yorkers into voting for Joe Lhota (R), de Blasio is using his strongest weapon; his wife:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Less understood is the role his wife, a 58-year-old poet, has played in molding his political vision and propelling his ascent toward the mayor’s office.
As much as anyone on his staff, Ms. McCray has built and guided her husband’s campaign, thoroughly erasing the line between spouse and strategist.
Political meetings are planned around her schedule. She sits in on job interviews for top advisers. She edits all key speeches (aides are known to e-mail drafts straight to her).
Her encounters with city life directly influenced Mr. de Blasio’s approach in the campaign. Ms. McCray was horrified when St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village was razed to make way for luxury condominiums: 30 years ago, despite the fact that she had no health insurance, doctors there kept her alive after an acute asthma attack. So at her urging, the closing of city hospitals became a central theme of her husband’s candidacy.
Together, Mr. de Blasio and Ms. McCray are as much a package deal as Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, a reality etched into the campaign hierarchy affixed to a wall of the de Blasio political headquarters. It lists “Bill/Chirlane” above a sprawling team of aides. - New York Times, 10/2/13
de Blasio's also using personal experiences as a theme for his campaign:
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bill de Blasio was a New York City councilman responsible for overseeing child welfare when the story of a 7-year-old girl beaten, starved and tortured by her parents in Brooklyn exploded in the headlines.
The 2006 killing of Nixzmary Brown, whose body was found inside what a judge described as a “house of horrors,” transfixed the city as details emerged of missed danger signs. The emaciated girl missed 46 school days, and her stepfather denied an investigator access to her house. A caseworker canceled a visit the night she died, only to appear the next morning as police carted her body to the morgue.
“As a tale of what government was not doing well, it was pretty sharp,” de Blasio, 52, the front-runner in the race for mayor, said in a telephone interview. “The sense that she could have been saved, not once but many times, left everyone with a pained and empty feeling, and I certainly felt it.”
For de Blasio, a Democrat who faces Republican Joseph Lhota, 58, in the Nov. 5 election, the case underscored his contempt for the harm government can inflict when it fails to act and his belief that aggressive intervention can improve the lives of the most vulnerable. As head of the council’s General Welfare Committee, he investigated the handling of the Nixzmary Brown case and others where the city failed to protect children.
“I saw my role as being a critical voice, a voice demanding more change rather than less,” de Blasio said. - Bloomberg, 10/1/13
By the way, de Blasio has been making the government shutdown an issue on the campaign trail:
Tea Party Republicans may have shut down the federal government, but you and I both know there's no "shutting down" Team de Blasio.
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