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WHAT MAKES BILL DE BLASIO RUN… FOR CONGRESS? – The Nation
“In his first year in office, Bill de Blasio created a universal prekindergarten program, curtailed stop-and-frisk policing, pushed the Rent Guidelines Board to approve its lowest-ever hikes, began a $41 billion affordable-housing program, and signed an executive order raising wages for retail and fast-food workers. Mike Bloomberg, in his first year, put city schools under mayoral control for the first time, banned smoking in bars and restaurants, began the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11, raised property taxes to plug an enormous budget gap, and opened a shelter for homeless families in a converted jail.”
DE BLASIO DEFENDS UNIVERSAL PRE-K AFTER ADAMS CALLED IT ‘PET PROJECT’ – NY Post
“De Blasio, who often touts the initiative as a centerpiece of his tenure, claimed he wasn’t familiar with the mayor’s remarks before rattling off several accomplishments in his “very progressive agenda.”
“Well, I didn’t hear anything specific, but I’ll tell you, it’s pre-K and 3k. And in September, 3k is going to be universal and free for every student in New York City in perpetuity,” he told host David Brand, a reporter at City Limits, in an interview aired Sunday.
“Look, I presented a very progressive agenda in 2013,” the former mayor continued. “I said we’re gonna do transformative things to help working people and to fight income inequality.
“We added two additional grades to public education for free. I don’t know what’s more profound than that, so I’ll talk about it all day long.”
DE BLASIO CALLS ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RAMP UP ACCESS TO MONKEYPOX VACCINES – The Hill
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) urged the federal government Monday to ramp up access to monkeypox vaccines as cases of the virus continue to rise.
“We cannot wait any longer to take action against the spread of monkeypox,” de Blasio said in a Twitter thread on Monday.
In his first year in office, Bill de Blasio created a universal prekindergarten program, curtailed stop-and-frisk policing, pushed the Rent Guidelines Board to approve its lowest-ever hikes, began a $41 billion affordable-housing program, and signed an executive order raising wages for retail and fast-food workers. Mike Bloomberg, in his first year, put city schools under mayoral control for the first time, banned smoking in bars and restaurants, began the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11, raised property taxes to plug an enormous budget gap, and opened a shelter for homeless families in a converted jail.
BILL DE BLASIO WANTS NEW YORKERS TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE, THIS TIME IN WASHINGTON – Yahoo
“It is late June, and de Blasio is sitting at an outdoor café on Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn, where he returned after leaving Gracie Mansion. He is both unburdened and impatient, relaxed and tense, the same de Blasio his constituents have known for years, only updated to suit the political realities of 2022.”