...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...would play the Dante card in his White House bid, but the clumsy way he’s done it helps explain why his 2020 hopes are so ... hopeless.
To be fair, the mayor got a slight bump in the polls after the first debate, where he bragged of being the only candidate who’s been "raising a black son." And, since he no longer much cares about leading the city he’s supposed to govern, it didn’t matter that, by repeating his talk about having "the talk" with young Dante, he once again all but called city cops a bunch of racists.
De Blasio’s campaign then tried to hit the point harder, by placing a Dante op-ed in USA Today ‐ a piece defending his dad’s comments about teaching his son to avoid confrontations with the police.
But then the mayor himself revealed offhandedly at a stop in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
that Dante had written the piece years ago. Which makes its publication now just another political gimmick.
Just like the mayor’s hokey tweets around the debate, sharing his debate-prep texts with his "champion debater" son.
It’s widely agreed that a television ad featuring then-15-year-old Dante was crucial to de Blasio winning the Democratic primary for mayor back in 2013. Yet it’s beyond telling that he’s already relying on the same gimmick ‐ rather than his record in office ‐ to get him out of the 1 percent doldrums in the 2020 campaign.
It’s not helping: De Blasio’s still far behind the mayor of tiny South Bend, Ind. ‐ and still oversleeping TV interviews. Maybe he should ask what alarm clock Pete Buttigieg
...mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...uses.