The story of Uber in New York City unmasks the reality of the Democrats: politicians beholden not to the citizens’ best interests, but to their own. If your city makes it hard for Uber to do business, you have corrupt or corruptible politicians.
Until he was embarrassed by universal outrage and tweets from Ashton Kutcher to Kate Upton, uber-liberal New York Mayor Bill de Blasio nefariously tried to regulate Uber cars out of Gotham.
Ron HartHe took $550,000 in donations from the monopoly cab companies to protect them from competition. He even put the head of his taxi campaign fundraising in charge of regulating taxis, which include Uber, confirming that the top priority of liberal Democrats is using their regulatory powers to serve themselves and their donors, not consumers.
De Blasio touches all the leftist bases. For example, he married a black onetime self-identified lesbian. She is reportedly no longer a lesbian but, suspiciously, she still drives a Subaru. They have a son who, unlike Obama’s lament, actually does “look like Trayvon.” De Blasio said he warned his son not to trust New York City cops. But you know who he should warn his son about? Slimeballs who sell drugs and kill cops.
Mayor de Blasio is 6-foot-5, arguably too tall to govern. In his short tenure, he has lost the respect of the NYPD (they turn their backs on him), crime is up, taxes are up and regulations have increased.