Bill de Blasio ends congressional campaign for NY-10

[brooklynite]

City & State

Bill de Blasio is dropping out – again. The former mayor of New York City announced Tuesday that he would no longer be running in the 10th Congressional District. “I’ve listened really carefully to people,” de Blasio said in a short video posted to Twitter shot outside one of his homes in Park Slope. “And it’s clear to me that when it comes to this congressional district, people are looking for another option.”

The race for the 10th Congressional District has quickly become one of the most high-profile in the state. It’s an open seat spanning lower Manhattan and much of brownstone Brooklyn, and 13 candidates are on the ballot, including Rep. Mondaire Jones, City Council Member Carlina Rivera, Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou and former House impeachment counsel Dan Goldman.

Thank god.

[Haggard Celine]

1. I don't live in NY, so there might be something I'm missing here,

but I think he's done in politics. He just isn't well-liked.

[brush]

2. Do ex-mayors of NYC get a pension? Just wondering what...

de Blasio does for a living now?

[Tommy Carcetti]

3. I honestly don't even remember it ever having started. nt

[brooklynite]

4. I ran into him once at the Greenmarket...

He had enough support to get on the ballot, but never built a following. My political group is interviewing candidates and I was looking forward to grilling him.

[Polybius]

5. He's a nice guy though

Great boss to work for I've heard. Nicer to workers than Adams.

[brooklynite]

7. He may have been a good boss to work for; he was a terrible Mayor.

He barely wanted to do the work (as opposed to framing himself as some national figure for progressive policies); he sucked up to big market-rate residential developers; and was proposing to build a replacement highway through a public park rather than find a creative way to deal with the traffic.

[nycbos]

6. Wow he finally got no one likes him?