Progressive Bill de Blasio Set to Win Democratic Primary for New York City Mayor

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Progressive Bill de Blasio appears poised on Wednesday to win the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.

If the public advocate has 40% of the vote, which he appears close to having at the time of this writing, he can avoid an Oct. 1 run-off election in which he’d face former city comptroller Bill Thompson, now in second place at 26%.

Democracy Now! reported on Wednesday that

Juan Gonzalez reported last week on what part of what made de Blasio shoot to the top of the race, including his vocal stance against the city’s stop-and-frisk practices.  Gonzalez wrote:

Thompson, who was also fighting for the Democratic nomination, offered a stark contrast to de Blasio.  Gonzalez wrote that

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As Gonzalez wrote, de Blasio’s platform on education offered a rebuke to Mayor Bloomberg.  Politico reported that

Bloomberg took some heat after he called de Blasio’s campaign “racist.”  Imara Jones explains in Colorlines that during the race, de Blasio

Waging Nonviolence‘s Nathan Schneider offers a cautious welcome to de Blasio’s winning the primary, writing

However, Schneider points out, “de Blasio’s enthusiasm for [OWS] was tempered,” and warns that “Those working to transform politics from the ground up in New York City should beware of making the same mistake” as was made by some on the left in the early part of Obama’s presidency “of taking a break from movement-building.”

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