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Mayor Choreographs a Mismanagement Crisis

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/10/18

We were having dinner a few weeks ago, six journalists past and present, five of them New York Post alumni, when one of my colleagues remarked that Mayor de Blasio soon after taking office became irate that the Post had caricatured him as lazy and inattentive, but seemed determined ever since to live up to that assessment.

Two days later, the Nov. 15 snowstorm hit. Mr. de Blasio, apparently convinced that Ed Koch’s remark that Mayors get blamed if a sparrow falls in Central Park was insufficiently progressive to be of relevance to him, reacted defensively, saying it wasn’t his fault that the early forecast of light snow turning to rain by early evening had abruptly changed late that afternoon.

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