All posts tagged "Bill De Blasio"

By Edith Honan

New York’s new Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in Wednesday promising to restore progressive ideals and end growing economic inequality in America’s biggest city.

Less than a quarter of the New York electorate voted in Tuesday's mayoral election that swept progressive Democrat Bill de Blasio to power, according to preliminary results.

His victory was never in doubt: De Blasio led his Republican rival by a wide margin in opinion polls throughout campaign

- Left-wing progressive Bill de Blasio is poised to secure a landslide victory in New York's mayoral elections next week after executing a near-flawless campaign.

The unabashedly liberal tone of the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City and the rapid ascent of tax-the-rich candidate Bill de Blasio has many in New York's wealthiest circles in a panic. The New York Times reported that some of them are calling the situation "terrifying," and that the question at the forefront of their minds after more than a decade of being coddled by the millionaire-friendly Bloomberg administration, is "What are we going to do?"