Democratic Primaries

AverageJoe

(2,292 posts) Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:02 AM Feb 2020

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio endorses Bernie!

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, whose brief presidential campaign failed to get off the ground last year, endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the Democratic nomination on Friday.

In a statement released by the Sanders campaign, Mr. de Blasio said he was supporting Mr. Sanders because he “stands with working families” and was the right candidate to take on President Trump.

“I have called for a bold, progressive agenda, and that’s exactly what Senator Sanders has championed for decades,” Mr. de Blasio said.

His choice is a reversal from four years ago, when he endorsed Hillary Clinton over Mr. Sanders, but it is not entirely unexpected. He said last summer that in retrospect, he believed Mr. Sanders would have won the 2016 election if nominated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/bill-de-blasio-bernie-sanders-endorsement.amp.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio endorses Bernie! (Original Post) AverageJoe Feb 2020 OP

Is this a good thing? UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #1

LOL wisteria Feb 2020 #6

De Blasio continued stop and frisk when he became mayor tirebiter Feb 2020 #2

Not true at all Polybius Feb 2020 #5

Broken windows by another name tirebiter Feb 2020 #7

highly unpopular politician endorses Bernie kabelle Feb 2020 #3

But who's gonna endorse Bill de Blasio? tandem5 Feb 2020 #4

All seven of Bill's supporters! Let's go! RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #8

Well, at least when Bernie gets an endorsement we know it's genuine. jcmaine72 Feb 2020 #9

You mean, the guy who went to his Gathering along with Tulsi last year? robbedvoter Feb 2020 #10

Some of what de Blasio did for NY Nanjeanne Feb 2020 #11

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)

1. Is this a good thing?

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:08 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

wisteria

(19,581 posts)

6. LOL

Reply to UniteFightBack (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 02:31 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

tirebiter

(2,538 posts)

2. De Blasio continued stop and frisk when he became mayor

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:13 AM

Feb 2020

Any changes that he may brag about were because courts told him to lighten up. It’s the Broken Window policy and it goes back to Giuliani.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Polybius

(15,461 posts)

5. Not true at all

Reply to tirebiter (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:58 AM

Feb 2020

Link it.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

tirebiter

(2,538 posts)

7. Broken windows by another name

Reply to Polybius (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 02:48 AM

Feb 2020

Critics have noted that de Blasio did not live up to his campaign promise of reducing the racial disparit of who is stopped. Robert Gangi, director of The Police Reform Organizing Project said in an interview that the NYPD focus on low level quality of life crimes s “quota driven” and “marked by stark racial bias.”
—snip——
Black and Latino New Yorkers, young people of color, homeless New Yorkers and others remain disproportionately targeted by stop and frisk broken windows policing...

Total numbers have fallen due to suits by community groups but the percentages. remain the same.

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/12/de-blasio-on-stop-and-frisk-we-changed-it-intensely-107886

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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

kabelle

(34 posts)

3. highly unpopular politician endorses Bernie

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:17 AM

Feb 2020

I see.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

tandem5

(2,072 posts)

4. But who's gonna endorse Bill de Blasio?

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:42 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)

8. All seven of Bill's supporters! Let's go!

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 02:50 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)

9. Well, at least when Bernie gets an endorsement we know it's genuine.

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 02:58 AM

Feb 2020

And not paid for using the profits garnered from shady business ties in China.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

robbedvoter

(28,290 posts)

10. You mean, the guy who went to his Gathering along with Tulsi last year?

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 08:43 AM

Feb 2020

Who would have thunk it! NYC is in the bag then, right?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Nanjeanne

(4,962 posts)

11. Some of what de Blasio did for NY

Reply to AverageJoe (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 09:03 AM

Feb 2020

De Blasio's policy initiatives have included new de-escalation training for officers, reduced prosecutions for cannabis possession, implementation of police body cameras, and ending the post-9/11 surveillance program of Muslim residents. In his first term, he implemented free universal Pre-K in the city.

Reduced stop and frisks

As Mayor his predecessors, prices had gone up for more than 1 million private units in the city subject to rent regulation by an average of 3.2 percent per year over 20 years. Those rents increased just 1 percent during de Blasio’s first year in office and then were completely frozen the next two years.

On the City Council, de Blasio passed legislation to prevent landlord discrimination against tenants who hold federal housing subsidy vouchers, and helped pass the HIV/AIDS Housing Services Law, improving housing services for low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.

As head of the city council's General Welfare Committee, de Blasio helped pass the Gender-Based Discrimination Protection Law to protect transgender New Yorkers, and passed the Domestic Partnership Recognition Law to ensure that same-sex couples in a legal partnership could enjoy the same legal benefits as heterosexual couples in New York City

A real tool.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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