From reader "friend":
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Mr. Fusion,

Watchman posted some blurbs on De Blasio and the NYC cops .... well I was listening to the Rush show the other day ( not by choice though hahaha) and his substitute said something very interesting. I got busy looking it up and low and behold, de Blasio's name isn't even de Blasio!!!!!!

According to Wikipedia,""Bill de Blasio (born Warren Wilhelm, Jr.;[1] May 8, 1961)"".

I said WHAT?

"""De Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr. in Manhattan, the son of Maria (née de Blasio) and Warren Wilhelm.[1] His father was of German ancestry, and his maternal grandparents, Giovanni and Anna, were Italian immigrants[7][8] from the city of Sant'Agata de' Goti in the province of Benevento.[9]

De Blasio was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[10] De Blasio's mother graduated from Smith College in 1938, and his father graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University. His mother was 44 years old when he was born, and he has two older brothers, Steven and Donald.[11] De Blasio's grandfather, Donald Wilhelm, an author, graduated from Harvard University.[11] Although he was baptized Catholic, de Blasio is nonpracticing. He speaks Italian.[11]

De Blasio has stated that his father first left home when he was seven years old and, shortly after, his parents divorced.[12] In a 2012 interview, de Blasio described his upbringing: "[My dad] was an officer in the Pacific in the army, [and fought] in an extraordinary number of very, very difficult, horrible battles, including Okinawa.... And I think honestly, as we now know about veterans who return, [he] was going through physically and mentally a lot.... He was an alcoholic, and my mother and father broke up very early on in the time I came along, and I was brought up by my mother's family—that's the bottom line—the de Blasio family."[13] In September 2013, de Blasio revealed that his father committed suicide in 1979 while suffering from incurable lung cancer.[14]

In 1983, he changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, which he described in April 2012: "I started by putting the name into my diploma, and then I hyphenated it legally when I finished NYU, and then, more and more, I realized that was the right identity." By the time he appeared on the public stage in 1990, he was using the name Bill de Blasio as he explained he had been called "Bill" or "Billy" in his personal life.[13] He did not legally change over to this new name until 2002, when the discrepancy was noted during an election.[15]

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So he's not exactly who everyone thought he was, right?
I believe readers would be interested...
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