A former candidate for mayor backed up Ray Kelly’s charge that most of the Democratic candidates “betrayed” him in a bid to win votes.
The police commissioner made the claim in a Playboy interview released Thursday, in which he agreed that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and others were “full of s–t” for pandering to critics of the NYPD.
“Ray Kelly is right to feel betrayed! He was a punching bag for my fellow candidates in the primary, in a disgusting display of pandering,” tweeted Sal Albanese, who came in seventh and last in the Democratic mayoral primary.
De Blasio made his opposition to the overuse of stop-and-frisk a centerpiece of his campaign, and said he would dismiss Kelly as chief.
“I’m not doing that right now,” de Blasio said on the way into his Park Slope home Friday, when asked to respond to Kelly’s comments.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who said she would have kept Kelly on as commissioner with certain conditions, and former Comptroller Bill Thompson also declined comment.
But Mayor Bloomberg stood by his guy.
“People like Ray Kelly. Why? Ray Kelly’s legacy is the following: 7,500 fewer people shot dead than there would have been if we’d just had the murder rate when we came in,” he said on his weekly radio show.