Joe Lhota: Bill de Blasio’s ‘Marxist playbook’
New York mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota is pinning the Communist label on Democrat Bill de Blasio, saying his campaign comes from the “Marxist playbook.”
A statement released by Lhota on Monday called for de Blasio to explain his work in Nicaragua in the ’80s, the subject of a New York Times piece on Tuesday.
“Bill de Blasio needs to explain himself — and explain himself now — to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who escaped Marxist tyranny in Asia, Central America, and from behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe,” Lhota said in the statement. “Mr. de Blasio’s involvement with the Sandinistas didn’t happen in 1917; it happened 70 years later when the cruelty and intrinsic failure of communism had become crystal clear to anyone with a modicum of reaso
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n a television interview Tuesday, de Blasio repeated he was a proud progressive and said he was proud of his work in Nicaragua, even though U.S. policies at the time were against the revolutionaries.
“I think the U.S. policies at the time were wrong. And by the way, this is something I’ve been very open about for years. I was very proud to be involved in that work because I think the United States for example funding the Contra forces in Central America, intervening in other countries, I think that was bad policy,” de Blasio told PIX11 in New York.
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