Mayor de Blasio, 2014 (photo: Rob Bennett/Mayor's Office)
In the early stages of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s run for office in 2013, thousands of small donations flooded in but big donors were rare. “I will admit to you there was a time early in the mayoral campaign when a maximum donation was a very unusual thing in our campaign, so it certainly got attention then,” the mayor said, at a June 15 news conference.
As the situation changed and bigger donations became more “typical,” the mayor said his campaign was
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