Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota doubled down, Tuesday morning, on his attack on rival Bill de Blasio’s leftist charging the Democrat’s strategy is drawn “directly out of the Marxist playbook.”
“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,” Mr. Lhota said in a 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 reason. Mr. de Blasio’s class warfare strategy in New York City is directly out of the Marxist playbook. Now we know why.”
De Blasio defended his involvement with the Sandinistas in an interview on PIX 11 Tuesday morning and said U.S. policy backing the right-wing contras was wrong.
“I’m a progressive, I’m a Democrat, that’s right,” Mr. de Blasio said. “I think U.S. policies at that time were wrong,” he said of the intervention against the Sandinistas. “And by the way, you know, 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. That was a Reagan-Bush policy that I think was failed, and in fact the people of this country turned against it.”
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