Iowa Presidential Summit Promoted By NYC Mayor Has Been Cancelled

New York city Mayor Bill de Blasio greets supporters during a protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio marched on Thursday with thousan... New York city Mayor Bill de Blasio greets supporters during a protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio marched on Thursday with thousands of demonstrators in Puerto Rico to support their demand for equal treatment on federal health care. The demonstrators were protesting that Medicaid reimbursement rates in the island territory are 70 percent lower than on the U.S. mainland, while Medicare reimbursement is 40 percent lower, according to officials.(AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo) MORE LESS
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The Progressive Agenda Committee said Tuesday that they’re cancelling next month’s income inequality presidential summit in Iowa promoted by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio because of a lack of interest.

“It is clear other efforts beyond the previously-planned presidential forum will more effectively advance the cause of fighting income inequality,” the committee said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday afternoon.

The forum, which would have required RSVPs from three candidates on each side, was scheduled for Dec. 6 in Iowa City.

No contracts had been made between the group and the university, according to the Journal, but possible venues had been identified.

De Blasio endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president in late October after months of silence on the candidate for whom de Blasio once ran a successful Senate campaign.

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  3. Who thought Iowa would be the best place for this discussion?

  4. Iowans are too busy counting their subsidies from Washington.

  5. The Progressive Agenda Committee said Tuesday that they’re cancelling next month’s income inequality presidential summit in Iowa promoted by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio because of a lack of interest.


    “Taxes too high, wages too high,” he later added. “We’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. People have to go out, they have to work really hard and they have to get into that upper stratum. But we cannot do this if we are going to compete with the rest of the world. We just can’t do it.”

    Donald J. Trump

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