The New York Post said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio needs to be removed from his office by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“Bill de Blasio does not care about New York City. He does not care about its people,” the Post‘s editorial board said Monday in the cover story. “He does not care about how it’s run. He does not care about you or your taxes, creating jobs or improving lives. All Bill de Blasio cares about is Bill de Blasio. And so, for the good of the city, Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to remove the mayor from office.”
“The lights went out on Broadway Saturday night, and Bill de Blasio was a thousand miles away in Iowa. It was the moment that perfectly captured his distracted, ego-driven failure of a mayoralty,” the editorial said.
“Per the City Charter and the state Constitution, the governor can suspend the mayor immediately for 30 days, then prepare charges, present de Blasio with them, give him a chance to answer them — and finally officially remove him. Or the mayor could do the right thing and resign. Either way, Bill de Blasio must go. Now.”
NY Post front page editorial tomorrow calls on Bill de Blasio to resign pic.twitter.com/kzUZqmeWIX
— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 15, 2019
The call for de Blasio’s resignation follows a crippling blackout throughout large sections of New York City.
The mayor addressed the blackout from Iowa where he told CNN the situation was “being addressed very rapidly.” De Blasio was in Iowa for a campaign event for his 2020 Democratic presidential primary run. He is currently tied for 15th place with 0.5% support according to RealClearPolitics.
