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| Mayor spoke candidly about day in 2014 he dropped Charlotte the groundhog |
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‘The whole thing was insane’:
Bill de Blasio on dropping groundhog that later died
The former New York mayor has addressed perhaps the saddest controversy of his time at City Hall: the day he dropped a groundhog, which subsequently died.
Asked if he had any regrets, De Blasio said:
“Yeah. 100%. I’m like, ‘Don’t make me hold a fucking groundhog.’ I mean, what the hell?
“I go there and it’s seven in the morning, which means my motor skills are not at their best. I put on these gloves, and they’re like, ‘Here’s a groundhog.’ I’m like, ‘What the fuck?’...
“It was idiocy. Why would you want an elected official to hold a groundhog? I don’t know anything about holding groundhogs. So the whole thing is just insane. There’s an original sin here. Don’t hand someone a groundhog, right?
“Only trained groundhog holders. And do you squeeze it really tight?"
Charlotte was found dead a week later. A necropsy determined the animal died of internal injuries.
He was wearing gloves in 2014 because five years before, a groundhog bit Michael Bloomberg.
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