Italian Americans Fed Up With De Blasio Administration

[Common]

Mayor Bill de Blasio is walking back on a decision by his wife Chirlane McCray to exclude an Italian immigrant for a new program dubbed “She Built NYC,” an initiative that seeks to recognize historically overlooked women who helped build New York.

Originally, First Lady McCray had asked New Yorkers to nominate a new statue of an impactful woman.


By a large margin, New Yorkers selected St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, a religious leader who ventured overseas to help New York’s impoverished immigrant population. She had started 67 charities over her lifetime.


McCray rejected this top nominee in favor of a transgender woman who was an activist.


https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/13/i...-up-de-blasio/

[DGUtley]

Bensonhurst Catholics furious after NYC’s first lady snubs saintly winner of statue-building initiative —

Mayor de Blasio’s wife and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen chose to commemorate jazz singer Billie Holiday, civil rights advocate Elizabeth Jennings Graham, doctor Helen Rodriguez Trias, and LGBTQ activist, Sylvia Rivera — none of whom were among the top seventeen women nominated.

“...none of whom were among the top seventeen women nominated.”



https://www.brooklynpaper.com/storie...-09-06-bk.html

[Common]

Italian americans are over 17% of NYC population not to long ago that was much higher, they are flocking out of the city as they retire,

[texan]

I can see how Bill DB has done well. He is very good on TV. Smooth doesn't make too many mistakes. He cannot be trapped into bad interview questions. Believe me Hannity tried. His actions are a different story. This has caught up to him. I spent a week up there on vacation this past summer. That city despises him.

Funny Rudy line over the past few weeks. Bill BD was attacking him and he said (paraphrasing). "Tell Bill the half the city still thinks I am mayor when walking down the street, that's how bad a mayor he is, most people don't even know him."

[Lummy]

I think NYC should have a special day set aside to annually celebrate feral cats named "Fang".