Bill de Blasio: He's Chronically Late and Struggles to Get Out of Bed in the Morning

“Giuliani began each work day…with an 8 a.m. meeting, an
almost military-style briefing with his top staff,” wrote Fred
Siegel in his 2005 biography of Rudy, The Prince of
the City. “The importance of the ‘8 a.m. morning
meeting,'”— writes Siegel quoting Giuliani—”‘cannot be
overstated…I consider it the cornerstone to efficient
functioning.'”

Our current mayor is more likely to be found buried under a heap
of blankets at that ungodly hour,
notes New York magazine’s Jessica Roy:

Bill de Blasio, who’s notoriously tardy for everything from
memorials to speeches, was so late for a flight from JFK in
November that he kept passengers from boarding for 20 minutes. New
York’s mayor is so perennially late that
the Post once gifted him
a West Elm alarm clock (without a snooze button).

Last month, Hizzoner
missed most of a ceremony to honor the victims of Flight 587,
after arriving half-an-hour late for an 8:05 a.m. ferry. His
aides initially blamed the mayor’s tardiness on “heavy fog,” but de
Blasio later admitted that he was recovering from a “rough night”
and was feeling “really sluggish.” When he was public advocate,

notes the Observer, de Blasio “sometimes had
difficulty waking up in the morning…leaving staffers waiting for
hours outside his home or showing up late to morning events.”

I go to the same YMCA as de Blasio in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, and
just this morning I caught him slowly peddling away on an exercise
bike at 8:20 a.m. If de Blasio’s going to make good on
his promise to solve the “inequality crisis” and turn the Big
Apple into a progressive paradise, he’ll need get to the office.
Sweet dreams, Mr. Mayor.