Mayor DeBlasio's Staff Called Politicians Asking Them To Blast NYPD Police Unions

Mayor DeBlasio Holding The Groundhog He Dropped And Accidentally Killed

If this is how Mayor DeBlasio intends to "make up" with the police unions as they say in Brooklyn, "fuhgeddaboudit !"

According to the New York Post the mayor made a feeble attempt to sway public opinion against the NYPD by having his aides call and urge  "political allies to attack the police unions for their tactics just days before the mayor met with five police union leaders to hammer out a truce." 

Fortunately those politicians though about the next election and ignored their request.

One elected official told The Post that de Blasio’s aides reached out after the funeral for Det. Rafael Ramos in which dozens of rank-and-file officers turned their backs on the mayor as he spoke.

The aides requested public criticisms of the “union’s tactics,” the source said.

De Blasio’s government affairs officials also privately began reaching out to allies as recently as this Monday – just one day before his peace pipe pow-wow with union leaders at the police academy, DNAinfo.com first reported Tuesday.

“City Hall wanted me to blast the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association for turning their backs on him,” one legislator told the web site. “They called up Monday, said they were calling all of us, and that it was our obligation to stand up defending the mayor.”

One City Council insider said only that the administration was seeking to circle the wagons amid a growing rift with NYPD rank-and-file.

“He gave us talking points, but it was very much a unity message,” the insider said. “They’re not asking us to defend them against [PBA President] Pat Lynch. They’re trying to keep everyone in line and have a unity message.”

Of course the Mayor's office denied the claims:

“The Administration did not ask elected officials to ‘attack’ anyone,” said City Hall spokeswoman Marti Adams. “As we’ve often done, we reached out to public officials to ask that they stand with the Mayor and his requests for New Yorkers to do all they can to respect and support the families of Officers Ramos and Liu as the city deals with this unconscionable tragedy.”

Despite the City Hall denial the report rings true. A call to blast the police unions is indicative of the same political ineptness the Mayor displayed when he talked about warning his son to beware of the NYPD.