Who is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio?

Here are ten interesting facts you may not know about New York City’s Communist Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was elected in 2013 with a whopping 72% of the vote.

The leftist mayor is accused of fostering an environment that led to the tragic execution-style racial assassinations of two NYPD officers on Saturday. 

• Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr., on May 8, 1961. He first changed his name to the hyphenated Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, adding his mother’s maiden name. In 2002, he dropped the “Warren” and the “Wilhelm,” and changed his name for a second time to what it is currently, Bill de Blasio. 

• Bill de Blasio was the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000. 

• Bill de Blasio was a fervent supporter of the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980′s, a government that was backed by the Communist Soviet Union and Cuba. 

• At the height of Cold War tension, while still a student at New York University, de Blasio toured the Communist Soviet Union in 1983. 

• His first job was in 1984 with the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice. 

• Bill de Blasio received a master’s degree in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the same school attended by Barack Obama. 

• Bill de Blasio ran Democrat New York Congressman Charlie Rangel’s re-election campaign in 1994. 

• In 1994, Bill de Blasio married a lesbian activist, Chirlane McCray. The newlyweds honeymooned in Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba. 

• In 2009, de Blasio’s election campaign to be NYC’s third “Public Advocate” was supported by the pro-Communism, Working Families Party. 

• Both of de Blasio’s parents were communists, leading historian Ron Radosh to describe him as a “bona fide red diaper baby.”