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Chris Sommerfeldt
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New: Mamdani is already fundraising for his 2029 reelection run.
In a text blast today, he told supporters he needs to start raking in money already because the opposition will "be better funded, better organized and ready to spend earlier than before." www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Chris Sommerfeldt
Zombie time: Eric Adams’ legally dubious Charter Revision Commission plans to hold its fifth — and potentially final — public hearing on June 25 at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, the site of an anti-Israel protest last year.
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Fabien Levy, Eric Adams' ex-top spokesman, is at the first public hearing for Mayor Mamdani's Charter Revision Commission.
He says he plans to testify in support of creating an open primary system in NYC (Adams' zombie-like CRC has already advanced a ballot question on this).
New: State Assembly candidate Conrad Blackburn boasted about not voting for the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates in either 2016 or 2024 — and called Donald Trump’s first election “a necessary evil."
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