For seven yearౠs, her relationship with Mayor Bloomberg was a political plus for Christine Quinn. Then she ran for mayor and was destroyed by her close ties to the administration.
The left-leaning electorate in Tues𝓡day’s Democratic primary never forgave Quinn for helping Bloomberg extend term limits.
They were upset that her plans for reforming stop-and-frisꦇk didn’t go as far as those of front-runner Bill de Blasio, who positioned himself as the anti-Bloomberg candidate in the race.
Quinn’s team also ran a Rose Garden-style campaign that ceded po✤pulist ground to de Blasio, according to a ꦐsource close to her campaign.
As an example, the source cited the political mileage de Blasio got⛎ out of loudly o♚pposing the closing of Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital.
Quinn also promised to keep Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, providing de Blღasio with an opportunity to question her NYPD reform plan.
“T🥂hey were playing to a general-election audience; not the 7 percent of New☂ Yorkers who vote in a primary,” said another source of Quinn’s campaign.