the racie for gracie Sept. 10, 2013

Ha, Look at Bill de Blasio Trying to Fit Into a Voting Booth

By Dan Amira

Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio emerges from a voting booth after voting in the New York City mayoral primary on September 10, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. In recent polls by Quinnipiac University, de Blasio is now close to the 40 percent threshold he'd need to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary.

He’s tall. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As mayor, Bill de Blasio’s first order of business will be to dump all of these devilish small-person contraptions in the river.

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