Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t join in as the Rev. Al Sharpton celebrated Thanksgiving by bashing the previous two mayors, but it was still an unseemly way to honor the holiday.
Perhaps de Blasio took to heart City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s recent remarks about being “gracious” to his predecessors — CoJo’s pointed reaction to Blas’ poisonous comments as Michael Bloomberg entered the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
Sharpton, by contrast, seemed to feel the need to distance himself from Bloomberg, after having raised eyebrows by suggesting the former mayor’s mea culpa on stop-and-frisk meant the issue needn’t be fatal with black voters in the coming primaries.
In any case, the Rev praised de Blasio, his guest and fellow server at the National Action Network’s annual Thanksgiving dinner, by damning Bloomberg’s and Rudy Giuliani’s mayoralties: “After 12 years of Mr. Bloomberg and eight years of Mr. Giuliani, we went through two decades, almost three decades, of the city going in a way that we were ignored,” Sharpton told the NAN faithful.
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