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Chris Sommerfeldt
"Brillant did not explicitly mention who was targeted in last year's New York City election, which was won by Zohran Mamdani. His victory thrilled many younger Jewish progressives but spooked more traditional pro-Israel New Yorkers." www.reuters.com/world/israel...
Chris Sommerfeldt
New: Sherif Soliman, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s budget chief, privately briefed members of the Democratic Socialists of America on the state of NYC's finances last week — a move that could raise ethical concerns, per a government watchdog. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
At the Mamdani Charter Revision Commission hearing yesterday, about a dozen ppl spoke in favor of open primaries — the very issue Eric Adams' zombie panel's pushing.
Among them: Ex-Adams spox Fabien Levy, who called NYC's current election system "rigged." www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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).
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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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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