A trove of City Hall emails, released under court order, shows a mayor sensitive to news media criticism and quick to lash out at aides.
By J. David Goodman and Jeffery C. Mays
For
years, Mayor Bill de Blasio has resisted disclosing thousands of emails
between members of his administration and outside advisers, on the
grounds that doing so would impede his ability to get the best,
unvarnished advice.
Now it seems like
Mr. de Blasio had an even more pressing and personal concern: He did not
want to make public his own raw — and sometimes profane — emails to
those same advisers, whom the de Blasio administration had characterized
as “agents of the city.”
On Thursday, City Hall reluctantly released more than 4,200 pages of emails, the final stage in a two-year court battle that the de Blasio administration lost to NY1 and The New York Post earlier this month.
The
emails shed light on the close involvement of those outside advisers
from the start of Mr. de Blasio’s first term in 2014. They worked with
City Hall on a range of issues from universal prekindergarten to funding
for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Source: The New York Times (via Empire Report New York)
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