2013

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In Brief Interview, de Blasio Sketches Campaign Themes For 2013 [Video]

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio appeared on “Good Day New York” this morning to talk about his effort to change the Bloomberg administration’s shelter food policy program, and he was asked by co-host Greg Kelly if all of the 2013 mayoral candidates would just spend the next several months bashing the mayor.

Mr. de Blasio disgreed, and laid what sounded like the themes he would hammer home over the next year or so as the mayoral campaign heats up.

“There are areas where I agree with mayor. I think he has done a very good job for example in general on public health and the environment,” he said, although it is worth noting that the shelter policy he was objecting to was in fact a public health measure. Read More