Ex-de Blasio aide blasts him as 'annoyingly condescending,' said she was 'terrified' he could run NYC: Book
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Lis Smith, a former top aide to Democratic House candidate Bill de Blasio, slammed the former NYC mayor as "childish" and unfit to lead in her new memoir outTuesday.
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Smith recounted her first job interview with de Blasio, who is now running for an open congressional seat in a new district, saying he appeared hopelessly unqualified to lead.
"It was just off from the second he sat down," she wrote. "Over the next hour, it slowly dawned on me that the likely incoming mayor of New York was childish, intellectually lazy, overconfident in his own abilities, and annoyingly condescending. De Blasio reminded me of the gross, unshowered guy in college who showed up to Philosophy 101 and hogged ten minutes of class time to yell about the necessity of seizing the means of production because he’d read one line of a Communism for Dummies book."
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