Mayor Bill de Blasio is most responsible for New York City’s decline, according to the author of a new book about the Big Apple.
Seth Barron, who wrote “The Last Days of New York: a reporter’s true tale,” spoke about de Blasio and why he’s to blame for the city’s downturn.
“He’s the guy, he’s been in charge,” Barron said on Fox News Channel. “He pushed the narrative of ‘a tale of two cities,’ and class division and racial division. So in a sense, yeah, it is his fault.
“He’s had a lot of help. There are a lot of socialists and progressives who had his back and have been completely behind his terrible policies.”
De Blasio has delivered on free universal pre-K, expanded paid sick leave, and reduced stop-and-frisk policing. He also has overseen the city’s $15 minimum wage hike.
“He’s been very lucky because New York never really suffered under the recession,” Barron said. “You know we were bailed out by the federal government, the financial industry was. And all along he’s had plenty of tax revenue. He’s never had a budget, he could just spend every dime he wanted to.
“And then he got very lucky because he skirted all of his corruption cases. And now with [President Joe] Biden in, he’s gotten a huge windfall, a big federal bailout, so he doesn’t even have to fire anyone.”
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{Matzav.com}
