Shot: Bill de Blasio: The federal government should pay for gender reassignment surgery.
—The Washington Examiner, today.
Chaser: It takes the city more than a year to fix a sidewalk, audit finds.
—The New York Post, yesterday.
Hangover: Graffiti complaints up more than 50 percent in de Blasio’s New York.
—The Post, Saturday.
In 2011, Victor Davis Hanson warned of “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.”
h/t ED