New Tack for de Blasio: Wooing Business Leaders He Once Denounced
On a purely political level, there is a clear logic to Mr. de Blasio’s attempt to reset his relationship with business leaders, and Wall Street executives in particular. He won the mayor’s race with an atypical electoral coalition anchored by minority and liberal white voters — a base of support that has remained largely intact. But no mayor in the better part of a century has won re-election in the face of deep hostility from the business community.