De Blasio for governor? Cue the laughter.
Post sources confirm that Mayor Bill de Blasio has his eye on a campaign for the state’s top job, while that he’s finalized forms for a statewide candidacy with the state Board of Elections as his mayoralty hits its final weeks.
De Blasio says only that his “New Yorkers for a Fair Future” committee “is a vehicle that I’ll be using to get the message out about things we n💦eed to do differently in New York City and New York state.”
He also told NY1’s Errol Louis, “There’s a lot of things that need to be fixed in Albany. I’m really looking for🃏ward to gettin🍰g into this bigger discussion about where this state is going.”
But no one is looking forward to hearing anything Hizzoner has to say about the future of New York. He’s detested in much of the state and can’t even land a spot on the Marist Poll’s shortlist of Democratic hopefuls for next year’s gubernatorial primary — a list that even includes disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Any de Blasio run for governor will be at least as pathetic and hilarious as his presidential bid. His record of misrule in the city is an impossible handicap: selling City Hall access for political donations; expensive failed initiatives from Renewal Schools to ThriveNYC; throwing away New York City’s historic victory over crime. And that barely skims the surface of his ineptitude.
🍷Truth is, he won the mayoralty in a fluke back in 2013 but confused his luck for political genius. How many times must he fail before he wakes up to reality?