Last week, Rep. Lee Zeldin, RN.Y., tweeted a call for the immediate impeachment of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio amid a surge in violent crime plaguing the city.
Since the violence shows no signs of abating and claiming a one-year-old Brooklyn boy among its victims, Zeldin has doubled down on his call to remove the mayor.
“I don’t think New York City is going to survive the rest of Mayor de Blasio’s term,” he told Fox News. “There certainly are people living in New York City who will not literally survive without any change in the way New York City deals with surveillance, law and order, security.”
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The congressman noted that in recent days, more people have been shot in New York City than those killed by COVID-19.
“While they were distributing all these masks, I thought maybe they should also distribute vests,” he suggested.
Although de Blasio has expressed support for protesters and activists on the political left, including funding and participating in the painting of a Black Lives Matter mural on Fifth Avenue, Zeldin says his disapproval of the mayor is not due to partisanship.
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“Ironically, when he stands in front of the Black Lives Matter protesters, they boo him offstage,” said the congressman. “He has lost the trust not only of New Yorkers who never voted for him … He has lost the support of people who voted for him. Actually, I don’t know anyone in York City who supports Mayor de Blasio.”
Zeldin believes that Blasio’s activist story explains why the mayor appears to align himself with protesters about the police and law-abiding citizens.
“It is important that our elected officials have the backing of our law enforcement, not participate in the efforts with these radical calls to remove our police,” he said.
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Looking to the future, Zeldin said he imagined New York’s future as “a tale of two cities.”
“There is a path that they are going down at the moment, and the path that is available with a leadership change that would be full of opportunities.”
