Kelly: Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota pandered to get votes
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and the other Democratic candidates were “pandering” when they criticized police stops of young black and Hispanic men.
“They were talking about election-year politics,” Kelly told Playboy magazine in an interview published in the December issue coming out Friday. “They were pandering to get votes.”
Kelly said the candidates all claimed to be friends with him until their mayoral campaigns.