New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday set off a testy Twitter tussle with BuzzFeed, calling its management snub of a labor negotiating session with staff an insult to “all working New Yorkers” – only to get dissed as a “deeply unpopular mayor” who’s showed “open disdain for journalists.”
The bitterness was set up Wednesday by a series of BuzzFeed News Union tweets that complained it was stood up at a scheduled meeting with management in New York, and that accused the managers of union-busting and dragging their feet.
The progressive pol weighed in the next day, tweeting: "Memo to [BuzzFeed News]: New York City is a union town. You didn't just snub [BuzzFeed News Union] yesterday, you insulted all working New Yorkers. To the union: This city stands with you. To the management: Come. To. The. Table."
But defiant Buzzfeed bosses promptly fired back, calling out de Blasio's history of acrid relations with reporters.
"This process is not going to benefit from the involvement of a deeply unpopular mayor who has expressed an open disdain for journalists during his time in office,” said a BuzzFeed statement posted by the Daily Beast.
The war of words comes amid speculation the Democrat mayor is considering a White House run in 2020 – an idea even New York voters aren’t wild about. A Quinnipiac poll found 76% of voters don’t think he should run.
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