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Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio is an American former politician who served as the 110th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he held the office of New York City Public Advocate from 2010 to 2013.
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Born 8 May 1961 · Q4911497
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2026· 16 entries
“s arrest he did not ask the police to release him. A spokesperson for the mayor said that de Blasio”
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“this is something we can handle, but you got to follow some basic rules.”
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“vast majority of New Yorkers, being folks under 50 and healthy, are not in particular danger, and if they were to get it, would experience something like a common cold or flu.”
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“We need to shine a light on these folks to shame them into action.”
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“my mother and father broke up very early on in the time I came along, and I was brought up by my mother”
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Yahoo: Bill de Blasio: There Will Be A Long Period Of "Healing And Renewal" When Trump Leaves Office
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Washington Times: Bill De Blasio says Americans are ‘hungry’ for vision from socialist left
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Fox News: Former NYC Mayor de Blasio says ICE should be abolished
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FOX One: Watch Laura Ingraham confronts Bill de Blasio over New Yorkers fleeing to red states - The Ingraham Angle
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Modern Ghana: ‘Sick of the handwringing:’ Bill de Blasio over DSA candidates
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MS NOW: Bill de Blasio says he’s ‘sick of the handwringing’ over DSA candidates
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Celebrity Net Worth: Bill de Blasio Net Worth
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Mediaite: ‘I Gotta Go’: Hannity Ends Interview After De Blasio Rebuts Host’s Attack on Democratic Candidate
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Fox News: Bill de Blasio debates Hannity on the new Democratic Party
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Mshale: Drunk Andy Cohen Says 'Sayonara Sucker!' To Mayor Bill De Blasio During CNN’s New Year’s Eve Bash Bristol Half Marathon 2026 (2a1sZ8KnKJ)
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2025· 5 entries
The Guardian: UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
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The Guardian: Will the real De Blasio please stand up? A lesson from a UK newspaper’s gaffe
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New York Post: Bill de Blasio imposter dupes paper to pan protégé Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform: ‘Story is entirely false and fabricated’
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The Times of London published an article falsely claiming to feature quotes by de Blasio that expressed negative views about Mamdani's campaign
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Fox News: Bill de Blasio argues the 2024 presidential election was 'winnable' for Democrats
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘The whole thing was insane’: Bill de Blasio on dropping groundhog that later died
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2022· 1 entry
State Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio ruled that the city's health commissioner overstepped his authority and that the public worker mandate was arbitrary and unreasonable
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2021· 4 entries
De Blasio announced a municipal vaccine mandate for all city workers
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Snopes rated the claim “New York Mayor Bill de Blasio killed a groundhog on Groundhog Day.” Mixture.
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De Blasio made ThriveNYC permanent by executive order, rebranding the initiative as the Office of Community Mental Health
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“s enforcement with 64% being from the education department. Sanitation workers and others sued to block the mandate. On October 25, 2022, State Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio ruled that the city”
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2020· 10 entries
The American Museum of Natural History announced that it was asking city officials to remove the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse
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Announced: "We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services
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De Blasio issued a statement blaming protesters for being in the way of two police cruisers that pushed a barricade into them
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PolitiFact rated the claim “New York City could pay to house its homeless population in hotel rooms currently sitting vacant, but Mayor Bill de Blasio “has absolutely to this point refused to do that.”” Mostly True.
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De Blasio endorsed Sanders
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De Blasio said, "this virus was underestimated by the Chinese government
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“this virus was underestimated by the Chinese government. It was actually beginning to spread and was not recognized sufficiently and talked about openly.”
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“We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.”
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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“focus has not been on the business community and the elite”
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2019· 12 entries
Claimed: “"I know the [Eric] Garner family. They’ve gone through extraordinary pain. They are waiting for justice and are going to get justice. There’s finally going to be justice. I have confidence in that, in the next 30 days, in New York. You know why? Because for the first time, we are not waiting on t…” — rated Four Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: “"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. … These things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Said, "We have to make sure there is a peace settlement in Afghanistan; it obviously has to involve the Taliban
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Snopes.com rated the claim “New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was previously named "Warren Wilhelm Jr." and once supported the socialist government of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.” Mostly True.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"Crime is up" in New York City under Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership.” False.
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De Blasio announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president after releasing a YouTube video in which he said, "I'm Bill de Blasio, and I'm running for president because it's time we put working people
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Bill de Blasio is "banning hot dog sales to stop climate change."” False.
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While addressing a rally in New York City about combating antisemitism, De Blasio said: "Maybe some people don't realize it, but when they support the BDS movement, they are affronting the right of Israel to exist and th
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And Chiara, a student at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California
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There was an increase in cyclist deaths, and de Blasio discussed several proposals to combat cyclist deaths, including a $58
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“We have to make sure there is a peace settlement in Afghanistan; it obviously has to involve the Taliban. Until that point, I don”
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Reported net worth: $2.5M (as of 2019).
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2018· 1 entry
“once-in-a-generation opportunity to get a historic issue right for future New Yorkers.”
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2017· 4 entries
Claimed: “"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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De Blasio won reelection to a second term, defeating Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, 65
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De Blasio proposed an expansion of the program to "3-K", to include three-year-olds
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Campaign: 2017 election.
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2016· 1 entry
De Blasio expressed support for the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that would allow relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for its government's alleged role in the attacks
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2015· 2 entries
The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, De Blasio voiced support for its national recognition
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De Blasio repealed a public health requirement that mohels inform parents of the risks of metzitzah b'peh, an oral circumcision ritual that was linked to 17 cases of infant herpes, brain damage, and two deaths since 2000
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2014· 8 entries
After a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, de Blasio said in a speech that he and his African American wife, Chirlane McCray, had had many conversations with their
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Although the Staten Island Zoo did not make this fact public until several months later
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The mayor received light-hearted criticism after a photoshoot where he ate a pizza with a knife and fork at a Staten Island pizzeria
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De Blasio's decision to deny public space to several New York City charter schools provoked controversy among advocates of school vouchers
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“develop and implement a coordinated strategy for technology and innovation, for how this city as a whole is going to approach the role of technology in our everyday lives, in our economy, in our schools, in our civic participation.”
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Career landmark: Mayor of New York City (2014–2022).
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De Blasio released a report dedicated to "better transit for New York City
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A TV show he said he was "deeply obsessed" with
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2013· 3 entries
De Blasio announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City in the fall election
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Campaign: 2013 election.
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Chiara addressed her drug use and depression in late December 2013 in a four-minute video which de Blasio's mayoral transition team released.
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2012· 1 entry
The rule was passed by the city's Board of Health, which required parents to sign a consent form
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2010· 1 entry
Career landmark: New York City Public Advocate (2010–2013).
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2009· 3 entries
Election won: 2009 election.
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De Blasio finished first in the Democratic primary, garnering 33% of the vote
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Campaign: 2009 election.
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2002· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the New York City Council (2002–2009).
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2001· 1 entry
De Blasio ran for the New York City Council's 39th district, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, and Windsor Terrace
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2000· 1 entry
Was campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's successful United States Senate bid
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1999· 1 entry
Was elected to be a school board member for Brooklyn School District 15
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1997· 1 entry
De Blasio was appointed to be the regional director for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for New York and New Jersey under the administration of President Bill Clinton
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1990· 1 entry
Said he was an advocate for democratic socialism when asked about his goals for society
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1989· 1 entry
When he worked as a volunteer coordinator for David Dinkins' mayoral campaign
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1988· 1 entry
Traveled with the Quixote Center to Nicaragua for 10 days to help distribute food and medicine during the Nicaraguan Revolution
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1987· 1 entry
Shortly after completing graduate school at Columbia, he was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center in Maryland
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1984· 1 entry
De Blasio worked for the Urban Fellows Program at the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice
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1983· 1 entry
And to Bill de Blasio in 2001 to honor his maternal family and to reflect his alienation from his father
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1979· 1 entry
De Blasio graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was in student government and was known to peers as "Senator Provolone"
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1966· 1 entry
The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts after Warren was offered a job at management consulting group Arthur D
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-05-08.
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1945· 1 entry
And became a budget analyst for the federal government
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