The New York City mayor’s decline in public approval may stem from his demeanor more than his policies.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York at a news conference this month in Washington.Credit
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"Among those who disapprove, there are certainly those who do so with greater intensity — preservationists who
believe Mr. de Blasio’s affordable-housing initiative will lead to
overdevelopment; neighborhood people who believe there has been
inadequate planning to support all the proposed construction; black civic leaders concerned
that Mr. de Blasio’s interest in criminal-justice reform is waning;
rich people who feel offended that he doesn’t involve himself in
rich-people things.
In
a matter of a several days, Mr. de Blasio managed to rankle both the
Rev. Calvin O. Butts III and the event publicist Peggy Siegal. Ms.
Siegal, prompted by the mayor’s absence from the Metropolitan Museum of
Art’s Costume Institute Ball, told The Wall Street Journal that Mr. de
Blasio “had disdain for the striving, successful New Yorkers,” and that
“it is a major shortcoming not to mingle with all classes,” as if she
were a regular at game night at the Walt Whitman Houses."
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