In statements Tuesday afternoon, both Moya and Adams, who are Queens Democrats, projected victory in the coming contest for speaker. The body will officially vote on one speaker—who essentially sets the legislative agenda and liaises with the mayoral administration—after its members are sworn in at the beginning of the year.
City Limits reporter David Brand speaks with Politico New York’s City Hall Bureau Chief Sally Goldenberg about the ins and outs of the race to lead the incoming City Council.
As of Nov. 30, according to a disclosure statement produced by the transition team, Adams had raised $993,478 from around 530 donors, including nearly 150 from outside New York City.
‘When Brooklyn Borough President and likely next New York mayor Eric Adams declared that under his watch, “New York will no longer be anti-business” one could wonder what city he’s been living in.’
Sliwa, who is unlikely to win the mayor’s race because of the high numbers of Democrats in New York, criticized Adams’ hobnobbing with city elites and trendy teenage TikTokers, claiming that the Brooklyn Borough President was more fixed on “keeping up with the Kardashians” and “raising the roof” than he was on the issues facing the city.
‘I think the mayor really is a policy and politics wonk and he thinks he has something to contribute to a national conversation.’
The mayor quite conceivably can limp along through the next 3.5 years as a large but very lame duck, responding only to the headlines while plotting out his future plans. There’s still ample time for the mayor to push a big-ticket agenda, however.
‘If I could program him as a robot every morning at Gracie Mansion and wind him up and send him out on his day dealing with the press and he would be thoughtful and smart and polite and kind and funny and jovial and smooth and all of those things, of course I would. But he’s a human.’
Mayor de Blasio heads to Albany. The City Council considers criminal justice reform. What else is on the agenda this week?
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