Mayor Bill de Blasio is in a little hot water over some trash-bags. From the New York Post:
Only fitting de Blasio could be taken down by trash bags
As metaphors go, it would be hard to top this one: Garbage bags could help bring down the de Blasio administration.
Yes, garbage bags. How perfectly fitting.
Of the many revelations about City Hall’s pay-to-play culture, the case of how New York came to buy a certain brand of trash bags for parks caught the attention of prosecutors.
A bit more:
As The Post first reported, the seller, Joseph Dussich, tried for nearly a decade to get the city to buy his Mint-X bags, which he says deter rats and squirrels.
But he got the brush-off — until he contributed $100,000 to the Campaign for One New York, a slush fund Mayor Bill de Blasio created. Presto, Dussich got a meeting with the mayor, a trial contract for $15,000, and then, through a middleman, a deal worth nearly $6 million.
And two items from the You lay down with dogs and wake up with fleas department:
Even then, de Blasio’s reprehensible behavior would still stand out. He beats his chest to declare himself an enemy of income inequality and claims to be in favor of getting big money out of politics.
And:
Even the names of his slush funds — the Campaign for One New York, The Progressive Agenda Committee and United for Affordable Housing — reflect a profound cynicism. Their names suggest the exact opposite of what they actually do.
This is Democrat big politics writ large.
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