De Blasio has victories, missteps in 1st 100 days
Bill de Blasio, New York City’s first Democratic mayor in a generation, has been in office nearly 100 days, a time marked by political hardball over pre-kindergarten, second-guessing over snowplows and an unfortunate attempt to eat pizza with a knife and fork.
A report card, of sorts, on the new mayor so far:
THE BIG PROMISE:
Most of de Blasio’s time and energy was spent on his signature campaign promise — to tax the city’s rich to pay for universal pre-kindergarten. That resulted in only a partial victory after the surprise entry of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who rejected the tax idea and offered to fund pre-k through the state budget.