De Blasio declares himself strongest mayor in the country; critics in his own staff pounce
June 12, 2020 | Jon Dougherty
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed off criticism from current and former city officials in proclaiming that his is the “strongest mayoralty†in the United States.
“This is the strongest mayoralty in the country, in every sense, and the strongest city in the country, in every sense, and we can persevere through all sorts of challenges and we will. So I’m quite confident in what we can do in the next year and a half,†de Blasio said Friday during his daily press briefing.
The bold statement comes after some of his own staff blasted publicly in letters as well as with an unprecedented march across the Brooklyn Bridge over his government’s responses to citywide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis last month.
De Blasio noted, in response to a question about the criticism from a reporter, that he “respects†differences of opinion.
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