Bill de Blasio is furiously wooing the 1 percent.
The Democratic mayoral nominee’s campaign schedule is full of big-bucks fund-raising soirees with some of the wealthiest movers and shakers in the city.
On Tuesday, he was at a $1,000-a-head breakfast by Patricia Lynch Associates, a top lobbying firm that includes major clients such as Vornado Realty Trust and Coca-Cola.
Wednesday’s schedule included no less than three $1,000-minimum events.
The day began with a breakfast hosted by Roger Altman, a prominent investment banker and former Clinton-administration official, and Orin Kramer, a hedge-fund manager and Obama fund-raiser.
De Blasio’s campaign also scheduled him at two parties Wednesday night, at the offices of Global Strategy Group, a powerful consulting/lobbying firm, and later at the home of his finance-committee chairman, Barry Berke, New York magazine reported.
De Blasio has made raising taxes on the city’s wealthiest a keynote of his campaign.
Asked about this fund-raising blitz, he said, “We are raising money from people willing to support my vision.”
“Clearly some of those making those donations will be among those being taxed and by definition are buying into that plan,” he told reporters.
On Monday, de Blasio will be honored at the home of John Howard, a major private-equity investor.
The mayoral hopeful, who praised Occupy Wall Street protesters two years ago, is due to meet more members of OWS’s targets on Friday when he addresses — for free — the business-friendly Association for a Better New York.
De Blasio took another shot Wednesday at his Republican rival, Joe Lhota, whom he has been portraying all week as an extremist.
“The Republican Party, thanks to Mr. Lhota’s friend Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan and others, has evolved into a very right-wing party nationally and, in many ways, in this state,” de Blasio said.
Lhota has consistently distanced himself from the Tea Party wing of the GOP and has denounced the shutdown of the federal government.
He has even come out in support of parts of ObamaCare in a clear repudiation of the Tea Party.
But de Blasio kept hitting him.
“A lot of people tried to suggest Mitt Romney was a different kind of Republican,” he said.