Having only a couple days before New York City picks his successor hasn’t made Mayor de Blasio any less shameless.
Sunday morning, in response to The Post’s front page about 26 firehouses across the city closed because of the vaccine mandate, his press secretary, Danielle Filson, tweeted, “To be very clear, this is a lie. @FDNY has NOT closed any firehouses. The vast majority of FDNY employees have gotten vaccinated. Response times remain strong, availability has not been impacted.”
On what does she base this claim? Well the FDNY says the firehouses aren’t “closed,” they are “temporarily out of service.”
We’re sure the citizens of Gotham will sleep safer tonight because of that semantical distinction.
This is the truth: The Post spoke to three different elected officials who told us which firehouses were closed. We went out and looked at the closed firehouses. We got a list from the firefighters union. And when we called the FDNY for a response, they didn’t answer. They still haven’t.
The city is scrambling to get volunteers from upstate and Long Island to plug holes. De Blasio & Co. are desperate to make sure there isn’t a disruption Monday morning and will do everything in their power to cover it up if there is. Going into the weekend, the FDNY vaccination rate was 77 percent. But that means 23 percent were unvaccinated. This isn’t a political statement; it’s the news.
Honestly confronting the situation is what politicians are supposed to do. But rather than deal in facts, the de Blasio administration trafficks in wordplay, ad hominem attacks, disinformation and slander. They’ve been doing it for eight years. He just lies and lies and lies.
We can’t see the back of him fast enough. Vote on Tuesday with a smile on your face. Things can literally only get better.