Nearly eight months ago, with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s approval ratings anchored below 50 percent in New York City, a high-powered political consultant publicly vowed to help fund and advise a viable campaign to defeat the mayor in the 2017 election.
A
dozen would-be mayors have since met with the consultant, Bradley Tusk,
a millionaire former adviser to Mr. de Blasio’s predecessor, Michael R.
Bloomberg.
Mr. Tusk is still looking.
With
just over six months until the Democratic primary, no credible
challenger — a person with some combination of name recognition, a
political base, governmental experience and the funding to wage a
knockdown campaign — has emerged.
In
an era when political neophytes have captured offices as high as the
White House, the lack of challengers to Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, may
seem mystifying.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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