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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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/...
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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