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FOR THE RECORD

Posted 5/20/19

Perhaps you’re thinking that you missed something when Mayor de Blasio announced his candidacy for President May 16 and the only union reaction it produced was a Police Benevolent Association statement calling it “laughable that a Mayor who has shown no interest in running New York City for six years now says he wants to mismanage the entire country.”

Surely, you said to yourself, the unions that twice endorsed Mr. de Blasio for Mayor and helped produce victory margins of 38 percent or higher must be engrossed in serious contract talks or at a labor conference in some tropical paradise, or they would have been all over the Internet and social media beating the drums for his candidacy. Maybe they were too busy booking flights to Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and South Carolina to cheer him on during four days of campaign appearances to tend to the media’s need for signs that this is not just a vanity production that allows the Mayor to travel the country on political-action committee money.

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