‘We Don’t Have to Agree With Everything’: de Blasio Reveals His Cuomo WFP Pitch
Ross Barkan
In a lengthy defense of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s record today, Mayor Bill de Blasio explained exactly why he is championing the governor to liberal activists in the Working Families Party.
The labor-backed WFP is meeting this week to decide whether to endorse Mr. Cuomo–who has charted a more fiscally moderate course and irked many in the WFP–or run a protest candidate in his place.
“We don’t have to agree on everything to still believe that we’re doing a lot of great work together and in the clear majority of cases we are on the same page and we want to go in the same direction,” Mr. de Blasio told reporters at an unrelated press conference on Staten Island.
“What I’ve said publicly and I’ve said to my friends at WFP is, the governor is taking us in the direction that I believe in and I think is consistent with the progressive philosophy and I said it when I nominated the governor at the Democratic convention,” the mayor argued.
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