Politics

Bill De Blasio’s Retro Values Are Back in Fashion

Old School

New York’s Democratic mayoral nominee is as old school as the flip-phone he’s still using. By Michael Daly.

The Democratic nominee to become the next mayor of New York strode up his block late Saturday morning talking into a phone that marked him distinct not just from his Republican opponent, but from nearly everyone.

Bill de Blasio was on a flip-phone.

To be exact, it was an old and battered...

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