Strong Independent Leadership

Now with 50 percent less leadership! Mayoral Control apparently won’t be taken up in Albany before September:

It was another setback for the mayor’s legislative agenda in Albany, where he has been repeatedly thwarted by lawmakers who complain that he employs a my-way-or-the-highway approach.

The failed negotiations over the school control bill were a replay of similar battles the mayor has fought in Albany in the last few years — like his campaign to construct a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan and his plan to charge drivers a fee to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan.

“The mayor’s people are telling us they will not budge, they will not accept anything that isn’t their version of the bill,” said Senator Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democrat who is one of several senators from the city calling on the mayor to accept the changes. “We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.”

He’s still campaigning about “getting the job done” or something, right?