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De Blasio on Iowa: Bad for Edwards, 'Sufficient' for Hillary

Gale Brewer via flickr.com

In a phone interview last night, Council member and Clinton supporter Bill de Blasio gave me his quick take on Hillary Clinton's third-place Iowa finish.

“The real story is Edwards didn’t get his breakthrough,” said de Blasio, who managed Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000 and campaigned for Edwards in 2004. “It’s questionable whether he can continue. Hillary has the advantage over the long haul.”

As for Hillary, he said that tonight’s results were “fine for what we need to do going forward,” and that it was a “perfectly sufficient result.”

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Anonymous (not verified) says:

Our beloved Council Member de Blasio is going to need much more than a breakthrough to successfully continue his political career.

Has anyone checked to see if/when he did any of his City Council work this week - remember, he still is "part-time" on a base salary of more than $110-g per week.

And when he is doing his City Council work, what is he doing for his district - other than removing community board members who oppose Ratner's plans to develop a large chunk of Brooklyn on the backs of small-time property owners and tenants?

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