He’s a piece of work…
Via CBS Local:
“Disrespectful.” “Insulting.”
Those were words used by various voters to describe Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tardiness at Wednesday’s memorial ceremony for Flight 587.
On Thursday night, one of the victims’ family members told CBS2’s Marcia Kramer a new one — chutzpah.
“They asked us to delay the moment of silence to wait until the mayor got there,” Miriam Estrella said.
It was an explosive charge about the mayor’s failure to show up on time for a memorial service commemorating the 13th anniversary of the crash of the American Airlines flight.
Estrella, who lost five family members in the crash, refused. She rang the bell starting the moment of silence at precisely 9:16 a.m., the exact moment of the crash.
“They kept telling us, ‘Wait, he’s coming. He’s coming,’ and I said, no, we’re not waiting. We’re not going to wait for him for a moment of silence. It happened at a certain time. That’s the time that we have to toll the bells,” Estrella said.
The mayor, who has racked up quite a reputation as “Billy come lately” for his chronic tardiness, offered two excuses: He took a boat that was delayed by fog, and, “I was just not feeling well this morning. I had a very rough night. I woke up sluggish, and I should have gotten myself moving quicker … (I) just woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep and I felt really sluggish and off-kilter this morning.”
The NY GOP zinged De Blasio but good:
Feeling sluggish, @BilldeBlasio? Here's some @redbull to help you cut through the fog.
http://t.co/WPL6TPUug4
— New York GOP (@NewYorkGOP) November 13, 2014
The NY Post sent him an alarm clock.