Why Rachel remains: This fight helps the mayor
The City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger cant stop making news, even though her boss, Mayor de Blasio, keeps ordering the world to stop talking about her and her ex-boss, Al Sharpton, is essentially issuing threats to reporters on the subject.
Case closed, de Blasio declared last week about laffaire Noredlinger. I think weve talked enough about this, he said the other day.
The only proper response to such arrogance from a guy who works for us is this: Go soak your head, Bill, well talk about it just as long as we like.
Sharpton offered an implicit threat over the weekend to reporters who dared write about Noerdlinger: Lets get the name of everybody at City Hall, see whos been around anybody whos been busted, including Room 9 where the reporters are.
In other words: Shut up, City Hall reporters, or Ill do some investigating of my own.
Sharpton may have lost a ton of weight, but he hasnt lost his talent for menace.
Whats going on here? Truth is, de Blasio may be benefiting from the fact were all talking about this, and from the seemingly mystifying fact that hes standing behind an aide who lied to the city Department of Investigations while seeking clearance for her job.
Ordinarily, this whole thing wouldve been over in five minutes after Noerdlinger first hit the news, with her quietly resigning and the whole thing blowing over instantly.
That didnt happen in this case because de Blasio clearly sees a political advantage in defending Rachel Noerdlinger.
Yesterdays Noerdlinger story was about unpaid parking tickets shes received since the start of the de Blasio mayoralty. Thats small beer, certainly, notable only because of the spate of revelations over the past two weeks.
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Why Rachel remains: This fight helps the mayor