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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/nyregion/de-blasio-travel-south-sxsw-nyc.html
De Blasio Embarks on a 5-Day Swing Through the South
By JEFFERY C. MAYSMARCH 9, 2018
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A week after a nor’easter grounded a planned trip to Atlanta, Mayor Bill
de Blasio has his bags packed again for the South — and then South by
Southwest.
During a five-day, taxpayer-funded swing through Baltimore, Austin,
Tex., and Washington, D.C., Mr. de Blasio says he will meet with
like-minded progressive mayors to promote issues such as tax reform and
federal funding for public housing, and speak out against the Trump
administration.
Mr. de Blasio used President Trump as a foil during his recent
re-election campaign and has promised to take on more of a national
profile to help elect and promote progressive leaders.
“President Trump and his Republican Congress regularly threaten the
well-being of New Yorkers,” Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for Mr. de
Blasio, said in a statement. “The mayor uses these events to identify
key, and sometimes unlikely, allies he can work with to influence
congressional members and share resistance strategies that are working.”
On Friday and Saturday, Mr. de Blasio was to attend the Progressive
Caucus Center Strategy Summit in Baltimore, where he will speak about
the role mayors can play in pushing for “policies that contribute to
economic fairness and participatory democracy.”
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Mr. de Blasio will also meet with individual members of Congress to
discuss federal funding. Also on the agenda in Baltimore are meetings
with Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, P.R., and Mary Kay Henry,
president of the Service Employees International Union.
From Saturday through Monday, Mr. de Blasio will be in Austin at the
South by Southwest Conference and the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting.
He’ll host a panel with the mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, and the
Portland, Ore., mayor, Ted Wheeler, about the “increasing prominence and
importance” of mayors.
Mr. de Blasio will also meet with the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and
attend a strategy session on immigration reform and the 2020 census.
In Washington, Mr. de Blasio will discuss federal infrastructure
spending and give the keynote address at a breakfast for Democratic
municipal officials.
Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University,
said that it has been apparent that the mayor’s “gaze has been national
for quite some time.”
She allowed that Mr. de Blasio, as the mayor of the largest city in the
country, would be expected to travel occasionally to meet and strategize
with other leaders, but noted there were local issues that needed
attention, like the subway-funding mess.
“You can’t pay less attention to things you are in control of to focus
on national policy,” Professor Greer said.
Mr. de Blasio will fly coach and take three aides and a security detail
on the trip, which will cost taxpayers approximately $8,000, according
to Ms. Goldstein.
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