He's late to his own announcements and his own meetings. He sometimes keeps staffers waiting while he naps in his City Hall office. And when, after weeks of hedging, Bill de Blasio confirmed he was entering the presidential race, he was late again.
But de Blasio’s longstanding inability to keep to a schedule speaks to a deeper ding in his political armor: He’s not just late to ribbon cuttings and memorial services. He’s late to progressive causes, too.
“Make America Late Again,” it reads, the message superimposed on a photo of de Blasio, which is, in turn, superimposed on an analog clock. With subway and bus fares continuing to rise, and New York City cops continuing to crack down on farebeating in a racially disproportionate way, advocates called on the city to subsidize fares for low-income riders.
Chalk it up to prolonged deliberation or finger-in-the-wind political prognosticating, but Fair Fares and living wage are but two of a raft of progressive causes where the mayor has followed the progressive vanguard in the Democratic party, rather than lead it."The paid sick campaign started in NYC as early as 2008 and 2009, and [de Blasio] was not vocal or visible on the issue until later," emailed a Democratic operative who worked on the paid sick leave campaign.
"The mayor I endorsed in 2013 is not the mayor I've seen lately," said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams earlier this year when he was running for his current office, referring to the mayor’s record on policing and housing.
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