Bill de Blasio Insists He’s Not Too Nice to Be Mayor
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio insisted last night that he has the grit to be the city’s next mayor, even if he isn’t as prone to expletives as some of his would-be predecessors.
“I’ve got the steel I need to take on this fight,” said Mr. de Blasio during an appearance on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes, where he was introduced as the “guy who is now–against all conventional wisdom, and much to the shock and horror of much of the city’s elite–the front-runner in the New York City’s mayor’s race.”
The assurance came in response to a concern raised by Mr. Hayes that Mr. de Blasio is just too nice to be mayor.
“This city has a lot of powerful people. And basically, in my lifetime, the only people who have been successful mayors have been basically maniacs,” began Mr. Hayes. “Like, I don’t mean ‘maniacs’ as in a clinical sense. I just mean like massive egos, huge personalities who seem to relish telling people to go expletive themselves. And you just seem like a nice guy.
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Go Bill, go.