Wake up and smell the coffee, Bill!
Joe Lhota slammed Bill de Blasio’s sleeping habits on Sunday — calling the Democrat’s excuse for arriving late to a campaign event “a tale of two naps.”
“He so nonchalantly expects us to say, ‘Well, I got woken up at 5 o’clock in the morning. I have the right to sleep.’ You know what? [The] people of New York deserve a lot more than that,” the Republican mayoral candidate said.
On the day Americans got an extra hour of sleep with the annual end of daylight-saving time, Lhota said that “being mayor is a 24-hour-a-day job, you need to be physically prepared for it” — and that de Blasio isn’t up to the task.
“The idea that he gets interrupted in the middle of the night, at 5 o’clock in the morning — about the time I get up every day, actually — and he calls it divided sleep? A tale of two naps, that’s what he really meant,” Lhota said.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Lhota noted, “Mayors get phone calls at 3 o’clock in the morning.”
For his part, Lhota said he’s slept a mere “five and a half to six hours every night ever since I was a little kid.”
Speaking after a campaign appearance in Harlem, de Blasio called Lhota’s criticism “laughable” but didn’t elaborate.
On Saturday, de Blasio explained his being more than an hour late to an 11:30 a.m. campaign event by saying he had gotten a “call at 5 in the morning that threw off my sleep cycle.”
He also admitted, “I’m not a morning person,” and said, “We should reorient our society to staying up late.”