It’s important to show up and stick around, unless you’re golfing in Bermuda.
In 2010, despite having near-perfect parade attendance in his first two terms, Bloomberg never showed for the annual Greek Independence Day parade. “When you’re elected three times, sometimes you take people for granted. I guess it’s not an election year,” one furious New York resident. “I’m upset Bloomberg didn’t show up, and we won’t forget it. This is a large community to overlook, but when it’s not an election year, it’s easy to forget who got you in office,” said another.
Also in 2010, the sixth-largest snowstorm in New York’s history ravaged the city. And even though the Weather Service started issuing increasingly severe warnings well in advance, the Bloomberg administration inexplicably refused to declare it an emergency. Also unexplained were Bloomberg’s whereabouts for the first 24 hours of the storm., “Bloomberg was bashed for being AWOL with many people believing he was at his Bermuda getaway.
In December of 2013, while Bloomberg was once again golfing in Bermuda, a New York commuter train derailed, killing four people and injuring more than 60. Despite being told about the accident just 30 minutes after it occurred, Bloomberg decided to spend another four hours on the golf course before heading back to the city., when asked about his decision to stay later that evening, the mayor responded, “What can I do? I’m not a professional firefighter or a police officer.
These are just the times his absences happened to coincide with a notable event. Exactly how often Bloomberg went MIA in total is unclear—he made sure of that. While it was difficult to pin down his movements precisely, in reviewing the flight records from his fleet of private jets in 2011,“flew to Bermuda, where Mr. Bloomberg owns a home, 16 times last year and 54 times in all from 2007 through 2010.
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