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Chris Sommerfeldt
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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/...
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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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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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: 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/...
In his DSA endorsement questionnaire last year, Blackburn also boasted of voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 + 2020 presidential primaries.
But there's no record of him voting in either primary, a discrepancy his team blames on Florida Republicans.
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