The candid ex-mayor stands firmly by his record — but wishes he hadn’t been so stubborn while in office.
Bill de Blasio
And I love it here. The mayoralty is, obviously, a bubble, and it has beautiful elements, but it can be very alienating and very limiting. I think if I had understood in the beginning what I understand now, I could have approached it a lot better.
I wasn’t at the beginning too, which is how I got there. I mean, that’s the irony. That’s the part that pisses me off the most.I think it was a combination of factors. At times, I was stubborn. I thought I was right about something or I thought I was being misunderstood, and rather than saying, “Okay, well let’s meet people halfway,” I kind of dug in. That was a mistake.
It’s like when a celebrity gets too big and they can’t possibly understand what’s happening with normal people anymore.— the Y was another place where I just talked to people. I understood, going back to my time with Dinkins as a staffer and even my very different time with Hillary as a staffer, how isolating this stuff can be. But I didn’t come up with the right tools to compensate, and now I could picture what that would have been much better.
We have the strongest, toughest press corp in America, and 20 different potential oversight entities between federal, state, city, elected officials, and appointed officials. And for years we developed pre-K and 3-K, and literally no one ever had a meaningful complaint or problem. The NYPD were beside themselves. I agreed with them entirely, and we made it very public. And I felt like this is one where I’m not putting it on me now. This is a structural problem, where the people duly elected and duly appointed to protect the city were saying, “The State of New York is putting us in danger,” and we could get people interested in that. And that pissed me off royally.He could have fixed it in a minute by just ordering them back, and they didn’t.
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