#Do your job, de Blasio — and stop using it to promote your wife’s career

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, was revealed as the person behind his decision to shift funding from the NYPD to youth social services.
James Messerschmidt

With the city barely beginning to emerge from its worst crisis in at least two decades, it’d be nice if Mayor Bill de Blasio just focused on his job — and left off his ham-handed efforts to promote his wife’s political career.

Especially when the game only reduces confidence in his policies.

The mayor Tuesday “revealed” that wife Chirlane McCray drove his decision to shift funding from the NYPD to youth social services. He plainly meant to play up her so-called leadership as co-chair of his Racial Inclusion and Equity Task Force — a job that itself is transparently another Blas effort to boost her chances of winning office as term limits force him to step down.

But everyone else can’t help but recall her disastrous role in pouring $1 billion down the drain with her ThriveNYC initiative, which also relied on social services as a game-changer.

The move won’t even play on the left, where Public Advocate Jumaane Williams the other day warned the mayor, “You can no longer hide behind your black wife and children.”

Just quit it, Mr. Mayor: Do what you think is best for the city and not what’s best for your family.