‘Morning Joe’ Panel Owns de Blasio on Anti-Uber Stance: He’s Standing In the Way of Progress

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Washington Free Beacon:

David Rutz

July 20, 2015

 

The New York-based panel of Morning Joe came almost uniformly down on the side of Uber Monday in a discussion of the war between the ride-sharing company and far-left New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

 

De Blasio is going to place a cap on the number of drivers in the wildly popular ride-sharing service for one year under the guise of addressing congestion concerns. Uber, led by Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe, has hit back with a multi-million advertising campaign urging voters to not left de Blasio “strand New York,” and the MSNBC hosts criticized de Blasio for clearly kowtowing to the taxi industry that has donated to his coffers.

 

“This is all about politics,“ host Joe Scarborough said. “You’ve got an innovation that works, and I just don’t think this is a battle that Bill de Blasio can win, even though he wants to win it for his unions or wants to win it for his big political donors.”

 

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