30 Days and Counting - Mayor Bill de Blasio is Afraid to Take a Question From This Reporter in His Virtual Press Conferences. Why, Because of My Hard Questions in Your Past Live Press Conferences?

 

 It is now 30 days and counting since I last tried to ask a question of Mayor Bill de Blasio during his daily virtual press conferences. So what is Mayor de Blasio afraid that I will ask him?

1 - Did this uptick in COVID-19 indicators begin about two weeks after election day where people were on lines next to each other outside and inside poll sites, where fifty or more people were inside poll sites at the same time?

2 - Will you Mayor de Blasio advocate to the governor to postpone all special elections to the June primary as was done early this year by the governor?

3 - If restaurants are shutdown to indoor eating Mayor de Blasio, how can you allow inside voting for the special elections, especially the one that started Saturday December 12th, and early voting runs through December 22nd when the special election is? 

4 - You have said today that there may be a total shutdown in New York City Mayor de Blasio, will you shutdown the schools, and how can you allow for any special elections to happen then? Would you ask Governor Cuomo to postpone all special elections to the June primary?

5 - Why do reporters who are picked by the moderator get to ask two questions instead of you taking single questions from reporters as you did when your press conferences were not screened by a moderator who has called on the same reporters four or more times the past thirty days?

Below are only a few  questions I have asked the mayor in the past during his live press conferences when they were live, and I was called on? 

1 - In November of 2016 I asked the mayor why repairs were over five years behind, and residents of various NYCHA buildings were not getting the services they were suppose to get, and deserved? The mayor did not answer the question, he just blamed the state and federal government for not giving the city eighteen billion dollars (at that time) to fix up the NYCHA buildings. That figure is now close if not over fifty billion dollars.

2 - As a former parent leader all the way up to the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, I have asked the mayor "why is it that Bronx public school students lag behind the other four boroughs in student achievement?" After six years in office the mayor said he was instituting "The Bronx Plan" where teachers would be paid more money to teach in lower performing schools in the Bronx. When I said that was tried and failed in District ten, the mayor said not like this. The Mayor's Bronx plan failed just like the previous one.

3 - When I asked Police Commissioner Shea early this year how much crime goes unreported, Commissioner Shea answered that there is no way to gauge just how much crime goes unreported, but he said "much crime goes unreported". Mayor de Blasio then turned to the police commissioner and said something to him.

So Mayor De Blasio, why do I not get called on to ask you a question as I did when there was no moderator, what are you afraid that I may ask you?