De Blasio didn’t want people remembering his name was really Warren Wilhelm. Apparently, he didn’t mind them knowing that he consorted with America’s enemies, the Sandinistas.
Via NY Post:
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday scolded the cops who used NYPD computers to edit Wikipedia pages — but his memory got hazy when asked how it was any different from his campaign staffers making changes to his own page on the website.
“This is a well-known city policy where people are not supposed to have any personal activity on city computers, on city equipment,” de Blasio said in addressing the cops who altered pages on Eric Garner, Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo.
“We’re quite clear that if you’re using city computers for personal business, this is not authorized,” he said.
In 2012, The Post reported that staffers for de Blasio, then the public advocate and a mayoral candidate, altered his Wikipedia page by removing Warren Wilhelm as his birth name and adding that he is of “German-American and Italian-American heritage.”
“Of course, we update the page,” de Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell said at the time. “That’s become standard practice for public officials.”
But on Monday, when pressed about those changes, de Blasio said he didn’t remember them — and then added they could only be made if it were part of a staffer’s job responsibilities.He also sidestepped a reporter’s question on whether his aides were authorized to edit his Wikipedia page at the time.
“I don’t remember that incident,” he said.