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Andrew Yang Files To Run For New York City Mayor

Andrew Yang Files To Run For New York City Mayor

Entrepreneur and former Democratic Party presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, Campaign Finance Board confirmed Wednesday. Per New York Daily News, in the Democratic primaries, Yang will compete against former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, former Housing and Urban Development Department secretary Shaun Donovan, City Councilman Ron […]

3y ago

New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio Announces Re-Closing Of 9 Neighborhoods With Spikes In COVID-19 Cases

New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio Announces Re-Closing Of 9 Neighborhoods With Spikes In COVID-19 Cases

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday that nine of the city’s neighborhoods would be re-closing due to a surge in coronavirus cases, The New York Times reported. According to de Blasio, the “rewind” will hit regions that have experienced a testing positivity rate of over 3 percent across the last seven […]

3y ago

NYPD Issues Statement Following Viral Video Showing Protester Pulled Into An Unmarked Van

NYPD Issues Statement Following Viral Video Showing Protester Pulled Into An Unmarked Van

A video showing a protester being detained and pulled into an unmarked minivan on the streets of Manhattan has prompted the New York Police Department (NYPD) to issue a statement defending their actions, The New York Times reported. The incident occurred on Tuesday and drew comparisons to similar instances of protesters being rounded up by […]

3y ago

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Explains Decision To Cut NYPD Budget By $1 Billion

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Explains Decision To Cut NYPD Budget By $1 Billion

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning to discuss his decision on Tuesday to cut the budget of the NYPD by $1 billion. Speaking to host John Berman, de Blasio said the funding will be diverted to youth and social services, community summer programs, and education, per Axios. […]

3y ago

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says He Will Cut NYPD’s Budget And Increase Funding For Social Programs

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says He Will Cut NYPD’s Budget And Increase Funding For Social Programs

During a press conference on Sunday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he would be cutting funding to the New York City Police Department and diverting that money to social service programs, The New York Times reported. The announcement comes in the midst of protests against police brutality that have filled New […]

3y ago

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Says He Doesn’t Blame Cops For Driving Into Crowd Of Protesters

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Says He Doesn’t Blame Cops For Driving Into Crowd Of Protesters

A video posted on social media on Saturday showed a New York Police Department SUV driving into a crowd of protesters, sparking outrage across the country. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio says that he sympathizes with the officers, who he says were placed in an “impossible” situation. “I’m not gonna blame officers who are trying […]

3y ago

Bill de Blasio Rips Pete Buttigieg: ‘Try To Not Be So Smug When You Just Got Your A** Kicked’

Bill de Blasio Rips Pete Buttigieg: ‘Try To Not Be So Smug When You Just Got Your A** Kicked’

During his final speech in Nevada, delivered after the Democratic caucuses, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg took aim at Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Per The Hill, echoing earlier attacks, Buttigieg accused Sanders of believing “in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.” “I […]

4y ago

Tucker Carlson Accuses Michael Bloomberg Of Trying To ‘Buy’ Voters, The Presidency: A ‘Nightmare Scenario’

Tucker Carlson Accuses Michael Bloomberg Of Trying To ‘Buy’ Voters, The Presidency: A ‘Nightmare Scenario’

Tucker Carlson had some fighting words for Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, with the politico accusing the former New York City mayor of trying to “buy” votes, according to Fox News. Carlson’s assertions come as new data shows Bloomberg climbing to nearly 15 percent in the national polls, after spending around half a billion dollars […]

4y ago

Bill de Blasio Slams Michael Bloomberg: ‘He’s The Epitome Of The Power Structure’

Bill de Blasio Slams Michael Bloomberg: ‘He’s The Epitome Of The Power Structure’

Former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, recently slammed candidate Michael Bloomberg, who has been rising in the polls following a massive television ad spending spree. “It’s important for people to understand what’s happening here,” de Blasio said Monday on CNN […]

4y ago

Man Who Has Been Arrested 139 Times Thanks New York For Continually Releasing Him Under New Bail Laws

Man Who Has Been Arrested 139 Times Thanks New York For Continually Releasing Him Under New Bail Laws

A man who has been arrested 139 times thanked New York for getting rid of its bail laws that likely would have kept him in police custody, reports The New York Daily News. The man behind the taunts, Charles Barry, has already been arrested six times in 2020. A new law went into effect on […]

4y ago

Michael Bloomberg’s Team Is Eyeing Andrew Yang As Potential New York Mayor

Michael Bloomberg’s Team Is Eyeing Andrew Yang As Potential New York Mayor

Though Andrew Yang suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, many politiocs — including presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg — are hoping his public service aspirations are far from over. According to The New York Post, the Bloomberg team dropped hints that they were eyeing Yang as one of their picks for the next New […]

4y ago

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blasts Domino’s For Selling $30 Pizzas To New Year’s Eve Revelers

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blasts Domino’s For Selling $30 Pizzas To New Year’s Eve Revelers

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was steaming mad over the prices Domino’s was charging to New Year’s Eve revelers desperate for food. As the New York Post reported, a Domino’s pizzeria in Midtown Manhattan was caught selling pizzas for $30 each to the thousands who were penned in to watch the ball drop […]

4y ago

Bill De Blasio Blames Recent String Of Anti-Semitic Attacks On ‘Atmosphere Of Hate’ Coming From Washington

Bill De Blasio Blames Recent String Of Anti-Semitic Attacks On ‘Atmosphere Of Hate’ Coming From Washington

After a series of shocking anti-Semitic attacks in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is speaking out about a culture of hatred in the country that he says stems in part from the leadership in Washington. Without mentioning President Donald Trump specifically, de Blasio said that the country is in a “crisis” that must […]

4y ago

Bill de Blasio: Donald Trump And Rudy Giuliani Are ‘Outdoing Themselves,’ Speeding Up Impeachment Process

Bill de Blasio: Donald Trump And Rudy Giuliani Are ‘Outdoing Themselves,’ Speeding Up Impeachment Process

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani are speeding up the impeachment process, Newsweek reports. The one-time presidential candidate in the 2020 race made the remarks on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show. “I feel like if Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani […]

4y ago

Bill de Blasio Takes Jab At Andrew Yang For Puerto Rico Error During The Third Debate

Bill de Blasio Takes Jab At Andrew Yang For Puerto Rico Error During The Third Debate

Tech entrepreneur and 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang took the expected amount of usual flak during and after Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate in Houston, Texas, but some of that criticism came from one of his opponents who wasn’t even there. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Yang out on social media after […]

4y ago

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says Donald Trump Isn’t ‘Welcome Back’ In City After Presidency

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says Donald Trump Isn’t ‘Welcome Back’ In City After Presidency

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went after Donald Trump on Thursday, challenging the president to a debate and warning him that he wouldn’t be welcome back in the city once he leaves office. De Blasio appeared at a Buzzfeed News event where he claimed that Trump didn’t “understand the city” and called on […]

4y ago

Bill de Blasio Accuses Beto O’Rourke Of Using ‘Lazy Fear Mongering Tactics’ To Attack Medicare For All

Bill de Blasio Accuses Beto O’Rourke Of Using ‘Lazy Fear Mongering Tactics’ To Attack Medicare For All

Mayor of New York City and Democratic presidential candidate, Bill de Blasio, blasted on Saturday fellow Democrat Beto O’Rourke, Politico reports. The New York mayor took to social media to accuses the Texas Democrat of using “lazy fear mongering tactics” to discredit Medicare for All, a single-payer health care plan championed by progressives such as […]

4y ago

Bill de Blasio Under Fire For Quoting Che Guevara In Miami

Bill de Blasio Under Fire For Quoting Che Guevara In Miami

Bill de Blasio may have an impressive understanding of Spanish. Unfortunately, his knowledge of history is not quite as vast, say critics who have blasted the New York mayor for quoting Communist firebrand Che Guevara, per The Miami Herald. Though Che Guevara has been romanticized in far left circles, many Cuban-Americans still view the man […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Likely Violated Two Laws With One Tweet, Say Experts

Donald Trump Likely Violated Two Laws With One Tweet, Say Experts

On Thursday, Donald Trump tweeted a video recorded aboard Air Force One, in which he criticized the decision of New York mayor Bill de Blasio to run for the presidency. Calling him “the worst mayor in the history of New York City,” Trump posted the campaign-related video on his way to New York to attend […]

5y ago

Whoopi Goldberg Slams New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Presidential Bid

Whoopi Goldberg Slams New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Presidential Bid

Whoopi Goldberg was not at a loss for words upon hearing about a Democratic bid for the office of President of the United States by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Goldberg, who has been an outspoken critic of many of the mayor’s policies, relayed her strong opinions on what she felt was wrong […]

5y ago

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