Speaking to reporters Wednesday afternoon, de Blasio, a friend and former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, confirmed earlier reports that he swill not attend the rally, since he is still “waiting to hear her larger vision to addressing income inequality.” The progressive mayor also indicated he’s a big fan of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who’s challenging Hillary for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. “I’ve always liked what I heard from Bernie Sanders,” de Blasio said. Last month, de Blasio heaped praise on the self-declared socialist presidential hopeful. “I have been for years and years, going back to his time as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, I’ve been a fan of his,” he told reporters. “He’s spoken about the issues of income inequality long, you know, before it was part of the core of the national [conversation]. So I give him a lot of respect for that and I’ll certainly look forward to talking to him more.”

New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio will skip the HRC campaign kickoff on Roosevelt Island Saturday.De Blasio is waiting to hear her vision and so am I. I'm waiting to hear her vision on many issues especially the environment, TPP, inequality, Wall Street etc.

This is significant and has some Clinton supporters pissed. Let's see how far to the left it pushes her.