Monday, September 14, 2015
Eva Moskowitz, Practiced de Blasio foe, Weighs a Mayoral Challenge
Back in May, Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz delivered a campaign-style speech to hundreds of the city's wealthiest business leaders.
"I realize Mayor de Blasio sometimes gets picked on unfairly," she said, to laughter from the crowd of Manhattan Institute donors clad in black tie. "For example, he's been criticized for traveling to Iowa and the like, but I don't think his traveling to those places causes any harm. Coming back to New York, well, that's a different story."
The speech mocked the mayor for his foreign travel, his opposition to charter schools, and his inability to deliver on core political promises, and signaled an admitted "interest" by Moskowitz in unseating de Blasio in 2017...