Showing posts with label New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2015

All this does Is help him in the polls!

July 03, 2015 Emily Ngo , Matthew Chayes 0 Comments
New York City Reviewing Business Relationships With Trump

Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
By Matthew Chayes and Emily Ngo, Jul. 2, 2015, NewsDay.com

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that his administration is reviewing the city's business relationships with billionaire developer Donald Trump, who is under sustained fire for his presidential campaign speech suggesting criminals were rife among Mexicans who enter the country.

"We are reviewing Trump contracts with the city. Donald Trump's remarks were disgusting and offensive, and this hateful language has no place in our city," de Blasio, who is vacationing in New Mexico, said in a statement.

"Our Mexican brothers and sisters make up an essential part of this city's vibrant and diverse community, and we will continue to celebrate and support New Yorkers of every background," the statement said. Karen Hinton, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said she could not provide details of the review.


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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Why not $100?

February 05, 2015 Bryce Covert , Minimum Wage 0 Comments
New York City's Mayor Calls For A $15 Minimum Wage

By Bryce Covert, Feb. 4, 2015, Thinkprogress.com

In his State of the City Address on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) called for a minimum wage increase that would rise to $15 an hour by 2019.

While de Blasio took office promising to push for a change in state law that would allow the city to set its own minimum wage, he laid out concrete steps for how he would like to see the wage raised. In his address, he called to raise it to $13 an hour in 2016 and then increase automatically with inflation after that, eventually bringing the minimum wage to the $15 level. He said such indexing is important because “it means that hardworking New Yorkers won’t have to wait on new action from Albany just to keep pace with inflation.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has proposed a different plan. In January, he put forth a proposal that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by the end of 2016 and the rest of the state to $10.50. De Blasio pushed back at that plan in his speech, saying, “The current wage proposal simply doesn’t do enough to help New York City.” State lawmakers increased the minimum wage last year so that it will rise to $9 an hour by 2016.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Cops are po'd BIG TIME

December 28, 2014 Dean Schabner , New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio 0 Comments
Hundreds Turn Their Back On de Blasio At NYPD Officer's Funeral

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Source:  New York Daily News
By Dean Schabner, Dec. 27, 2014, ABCNews.com

Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on a screen showing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of one of two officers killed last week in what has been called an "assassination."

The funeral at the Christ Tabernacle Church, in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, was broadcast to thousands of police who gathered outside.

The killing of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu came amid heightened tensions between the police and the mayor over what some police saw as a lack of support for the force.

Sgt. Myron Joseph of the New Rochelle Police Department said he and fellow officers turned their backs spontaneously to "support our brothers in the NYPD."

The NYPD said through its public relations office that it had no comment.

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