It’s a tale of two kinds of constituents.
Friends of Bill de Blasio received better service from his district office when he was a city councilman while a number of regular folks got dismissed as “crazy,” a review of documents shows.
The discrepancies in community relations were found among 20 boxes of documents from de Blasio’s eight years serving Brooklyn’s District 39, which extends from Cobble Hill to Borough Park.
When carpenters-union Local 157 official Anthony Pugliese reached out about a worker with immigration issues, de Blasio and his staffers made it a top priority.
“Expediting it in any way is ideal, and if there is some backdoor way to do that, Bill might want to make a call since Anthony is so important,” says an e-mail to a staffer from Josh Wallack, de Blasio’s legislative director from 2002 to 2006.
Although the office seemed generally responsive to ordinary constituents, some of them got the brush off — or worse.
De Blasio, now the Democratic nominee for mayor, himself jabbed as loony a woman who was seeking additional lighting near her home on 12th Street.
“Her concern isn’t crazy, but she is a little,” he wrote in an e-mail to two staffers in 2007.
A subsequent e-mail among the trio had the woman’s name in the subject line followed by “crazy 12 St constit[uent].”
De Blasio’s spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.