Sunday, September 3, 2017

471 Days, Zero Credibility for Mayor de Blasio's Accounting of Disappointed Donors


A New York Daily News Editorial 

It only took Mayor de Blasio one year, three months and two days to follow through on a bizarre promise of self-vindication made in the furnace of federal and state investigations into more than $3 million he and his operatives raised from donors pursuing deals with his government.

Despite that embarrassing delay, the supposedly exonerating missive he finally released Friday was a vague, unconvincing, self-serving sham.

Here’s the May 2016 pledge a bristling de Blasio made as reporters revealed detail after detail of the corrosive pay-to-play culture he had created:

“As we will be showing you more and more in the coming weeks, a stunning number of donors and supporters not only did not get things they hoped they would get, they got rejection of things they hoped they would get . . . we’re going to show you a whole lot of evidence of that.”

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Source: The Empire Report  

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