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: During his final year as city comptroller, Brad Lander kept his government calendar completely empty on 33 weekdays and had another 99 weekdays where he only had one or two entries on his schedule, according to records I obtained. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Lander kept the relatively light government schedules at the same time he was running for mayor and then — after that didn't pan out — Congress.
Per polling, Lander is on track to handily defeat Rep. Dan Goldman in this month's congressional primary. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
After coming under fire for keeping his government schedules conspicuously empty during his final year as NYC comptroller, congressional candidate Brad Lander is taking aim at his opponent, Rep. Dan Goldman, for his spotty voting record on Capitol Hill.
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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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The Council Finance Division and Comptroller Mark Levine both project NYC's on track to rake in far more revenue over the next year than initially expected — and Council members will likely use the estimates to press Mamdani for greater public investments.
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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/...
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/...
