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NYC political reporter with @PoliticoNY , co-authoring New York Playbook. 🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at @CityandStateNY

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Got something private that ought to be reported? You can leak it to me, fortunately. @ JCColtin.93 on Signal
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I’m walking into City Hall from one direction while Mayor Adams comes from the other. Before I can get a word in, he says “This is New York, we don’t wear Boston hats.” It’s a Brooklyn Dodgers hat!
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Standing in the cold for 20 minutes last night, I talked to just one #NY03 voter. He was for Suozzi. Why, I asked? “Well, I'm trans, so I'm not going to vote Republican because they're trying to kill us.” (1/3)
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The NYPD budget has risen by about $1 billion in the last *five* years. Not 30.
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Police say cutting $1 billion from the NYPD budget could set city crime control back 30 years. “The negative impact of a cut of this magnitude would be felt in every neighborhood citywide.”
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Jhoan Boada, the immigrant who put up middle fingers after being arrested for the Times Square cop beating - *was not there at all* Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office said today. Exonerated and complaint dismissed. The image tore up Fox News, and was in at least one pro-Trump ad.
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“So, you know, it's about life or death, kinda,” he said. It was a good reminder that candidates can insist that people are deciding on inflation, or crime or whatever — but every voter has their own story.
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“It’s despicable that schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in our country,” Mayor Adams says - a shocking message from someone who raises other country’s flags over Bowling Green to honor their people ALL THE TIME.
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Eric Adams is like New York City is the San Andreas Fault of America
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Hudson Yards has blended seamlessly into the city:
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He’d been on HRT for more than a decade. “There's just no way you can vote a Republican into office without them voting with the party line,” he said. “That's basically what they've said at CPAC and stuff. We want to eradicate transgenderism in society.” 2/3
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Mayor Adams, on one benefit of outdoor dining: "You’re looking to date. You may drive by. You may see eye candy sitting down somewhere, you may want to park and come and slip them your number. Come have fun, man. Outdoor dining is the way to go."
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Eric Adams got home at 4:18 am, parked illegally, had his car briefly towed by a forklift, and then drove on the sidewalk to avoid a traffic jam the next morning. Incredible piece by ⁦ @Curbed ⁩.
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“I can’t quite understand why it’s called square,” Mayor Adams says. “Maybe we should call it Madison Round Garden.”
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BREAKING: City Councilmember Inna Vernikov was arrested this morning for criminal posession of a firearm, after carrying her licensed handgun while counterprotesting a pro-Palestine protest.
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2 years
Rep. @AOC also asking endorsed candidates to pledge to end single-family zoning and to oppose "member deference" in some cases. 👀
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2 years
Funny thing is, that's the second time it happened today. Random lady on the subway muttered "Boston racist" when she saw me. 😭
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@JCColtin This has always been my issue with BK Dodgers gear. I have one with the diamond around the B that is much safer.
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Eric Adams made a cameo in the 2017 Turkish rom-com New York Masali where two guys ask him for political favors in Turkish. He says he can’t understand them, but they take a selfie. (h/t @nia_prater + @chasdanner )
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Boada's lawyer said wasn't involved, and Bragg didn't ask for bail, because the office wasn't confident that it was him in the fight. *Many,* including Hochul, argued Bragg should've been tougher. Today, they say it would've met jailing an innocent person.
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Adams talks about the American Dream all the time - that’s not out of character. But to then extend it to suggest he’s offended by *other* flags? (namely: the flag of Palestine) is eyebrow raising to say the least.
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You can tell Adams isn’t part of the progressive movement because he thinks the left can coordinate.
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Mayor Adams declared that there’s a coordinated effort to relegate him to one-term mayor status. He declined to specify exactly who he believes is involved in that push.
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Mayor Adams has been telling activists who protest for more school funding to "pray." Today, @SahalieD reports, dozens of religious leaders sent a letter saying they did, and they still want a bigger education budget.
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In a grunt for attention, third-party Congressional candidate #NY12 Mike Itkis has released a sex tape on Pornhub to highlight his sex positive campaign platform.
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Body Cam footage released two weeks after the beating - after it had blown up, politically - showed the NYPD seemed to physically escalate the situation even though the guy was walking away. After that - yes, the cops were violently kicked and grabbed.
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@tomgara why does Biden, the largest leader, not simply eat the other five
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Text from a friend on Cuomo:
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when I saw this on the mayor's schedule, I was like... isn't the median CUNY law grad a DSA member who interned at the Bronx Defenders??
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The new grads did not disappoint during the speech. Lots of heckling, most grads turned their backs
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Tiffany Cabán, who shocked New York City’s political and legal communities by coming from nowhere to nearly get elected Queens district attorney in 2019, is now planning to run for New York City Council in Astoria.
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Curtis Sliwa arrives to vote, carrying one of his cats, Gizmo.
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"I think pizza has saved more marriages than any other food," Mayor Eric Adams says. "Sharing a pie with your boo? That’s the ultimate.”
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Rep. AOC making a rare appearance in City Hall, invited by a Democrat on the polar opposite side of the party, Bob Holden. The unifying event: a Kosovo Independence Day celebration.
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A New York story, in four parts. From the steps of City Hall, to Coney Island.
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Asked if the Supreme Court should add more judges, @NYCMayor Adams says yes. “The expansion of the Supreme Court is crucial. We need to balance out this court before they do more harm than they have done.”
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3 years
No more wooden slats and dodging pedestrians - the Brooklyn Bridge ROADWAY bike lane is open.
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Wait Eric Adams calls a noon earthquake press conference five minutes later Hochul calls an 11:30 presser?! We’re so back (to Cuomo-de Blasio) baby
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The NYPD has a drone in the air, for an unclear reason, as hundreds of African migrants line up outside City Hall for a council hearing on Black migrants.
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when you email Eric Adams
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Nate Wolff
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I don't feel like this is helpful.
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I’ve learned so much at City & State and can’t thank the team enough for supporting me since 2014, from intern to now. It’s time to try something new - though I’ll still be reporting on NYC politics. Stay tuned 👀
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Please do not call an agency serving elders... DOA.
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"I think we're going to change the Department of Aging to the Department of Older Adults," @NYCMayor says at town hall tonight, following DFTA commish saying he is first mayor to take housing needs of seniors into account in his housing plan. (That's not exactly accurate.)
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Eric Adams’ old campaign website, , now redirects to a Thai online betting site.
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Jumaane Williams’ baby, born premature, is now 10 1/2 lbs. and his wife is cancer free “so no matter what the number say, I have already won.”
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3 years
I do wonder how many NYC voters think that Yang is still proposing this in his mayoral run. He is not.
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Julia Marsh
3 years
“Shut up he’s going to give us $1,000” a person yells out the window as a heckler tries to interrupt a @AndrewYang presser on crime
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Just witnessed an incredibly boneheaded, impossibly naïve performance from @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio tonight at the We Love NYC Homecoming concert. Just got home, soaking wet from the show cancelled due to rain and lightning. 1/?
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If the mayor ever stopped his car to slip you his number, please DM me.
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Mayor Adams, on one benefit of outdoor dining: "You’re looking to date. You may drive by. You may see eye candy sitting down somewhere, you may want to park and come and slip them your number. Come have fun, man. Outdoor dining is the way to go."
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Evidence strongly suggests that Dante de Blasio voted for Maya Wiley. A house divided! (h/t @SamWeinbergerNY )
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And the boos and jeers for Eric Adams just got way more intense around 5th Street. Somebody threw an empty water bottle at him.
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The two main ethnoreligious identities of New York.
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HAPPENING NOW: Voters & elected officials in NY-3 call on Congressman-elect #GeorgeSantos to step aside after lying about his life story on the campaign trail. There are still serious questions about Santos’ finances #ThePeoplesReporter @Santos4Congress @pix11news
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Wow in New York debates they just ask if you occasionally smoke weed.
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Wow. Democrat @GreenfieldIowa was asked what a bushel of corn costs. She nailed it down to the PENNY. When Republican @joniernst was asked the cost of soybeans, well... not so much.
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TL;DR: Chief Chell effectively says “debate me” to Olurin, who criticized Adams and NYPD on public safety in an interview. Then effectively follows up with “debate me at Officer Diller’s funeral.” And DC Daughtry follows up with “hah! We knew you wouldn’t come. Debate me too.”
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Members of Dianne Morales staffers union preparing for a march on Morales’ campaign office, “in solidarity with our union leaders who have been terminated.”
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Inez Dickens is almost certainly going to lose, and her campaign has said that to reporters. Yusef Salaam is likely to pull off an incredibly unlikely path from prison to exoneration to the City Council.
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A Nicole Kidman fan account with 15 followers has endorsed Maya Wiley for mayor but I think she thought it was the real Kidman 😞 (Wiley has since deleted the tweet)
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Yusef Salaam walks into Harlem Tavern as primary winner.
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In latest post-court appearance campaign stunt, Donald Trump comes to an FDNY firehouse on 51st Street in Manhattan, carrying pizzas.
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"New Yorkers didn't tune in tonight to hear us fight with each other," says @ShaunDonovanNYC , wrongly.
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“We sometimes forget that stones gather energy,” @NYCMayor Adams says about the City Hall building. “Stones and metal gather energy. That energy is still here.”
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"You REALLY have to do something bad to go to Rikers," Mayor Adams said - saying you can't just release "extremely dangerous people." One day, 68% of the 6,104 detainees were in on a violent felony. That means 32% WEREN'T, including 153 whose highest charge was a misdemeanor.
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Yusef Salaam got pulled over — apparently for “Driving While Black” — *while on a call with other Councilmembers and the NYCLU talking about police stops.* Now he’s no longer doing an NYPD ride-along meant to lobby members to vote against overriding the vetoed How Many Stops Act.
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(Indoor, full-capacity live music in) New York City is back baby!!
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Yusef Salaam and Kamillah Hanks knew each other at LaGuardia High School in the late ‘80s. Both art majors, and in the Black Student Union. Yesterday was their first meeting together as New York City Council members.
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New York taxes citizens and gives the money to illegals
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The New York Post literally has not written one story about George Santos in the last week.
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I’m at a Maya Wiley mayoral fundraiser that is also a Strokes concert. And surprise special guest openers. Campaign says it’s the first full-capacity indoor concert in NYC since March 2020(!).
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Rep. Jerry Nadler, in the center of New York’s political world, on primary day.
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“We turned this city around in 20 mnths. And then what happened – a mad man down in Texas decided he was going to bus people up to New York City," Adams says, never one to let facts get in the way of a good story. (Migrants came like, 5 months in, and MOST aren't bussed from TX)
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A seven year old just asked the mayoral candidates if they would defund the police and tax the rich 😭
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The Yang Gang has shown up at the Central Park snowy owl party. (Pics by @CaitDorman )
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Many Dems felt a certain way when Ari Kagan was talking about why he became a Republican… but only Althea Stevens was sitting right next to him.
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2 years
On @fox5ny , @NYCMayor Adams says "I have never in my professional career, have never witnessed crime at this level," which is a very strange thing to say for someone who came up in the NYPD in the '80s and '90s.
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After Mayor Adams claimed his 2009 book “never got into print” @katie_honan holds a printed copy of the book up to him. AP’s @jangelooff asked him if the anecdote of him accidentally firing a gun at school was true - Adams said it never happened, blames unnamed “co-author.”
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Lewis-Martin, and much of the mayor’s inner circle, have made it clear they prefer dealing with Republicans over progressive Democrats - or even moderate Dems, in many cases. And doing THIS, NOW, after her arrest is Ingrid thumbing her nose to everyone else.
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Some quiet tea time with @ingridBKNY this am. Talked about the genocidal war in Israel, atrocities committed against the Jewish people, & the fear our communities here in NYC are experiencing. I can say with unequivocal certainty that we have true friends in this administration.
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Video shared by a protester appears to show NYPD Deputy Chief Timothy Beaudette responding to a verbal taunt by striking another protester in the head with a walkie talkie. I don’t know what went down before or after this.
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Rose, who endorsed 80-year-old Michael Bloomberg in the primary, is now tired of the 79-year-old Joe Biden.
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Morgan McKay
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Democratic Congressional Candidate @MaxRose4NY on @fox5ny says he does not support @POTUS running for re-election "I'm sick and tired of that generation being in power," Rose says. "We've got to move on."
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Pro-Palestine activists are rallying outside the Shomer Shabbos Somos event - hosted by the UJA, Met Council and Chabad of Puerto Rico.
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Mayoral campaigns all try to be big tents, but Andrew Yang being endorsed by both Carlos Menchaca and Kalman Yeger is pretty remarkable.
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At Schimanski, a dance club in Williamsburg where @EricAdamsforNYC is holding his election night event. (Not a birthday.) Campaign confirms that @RossBarkan and @Freedlander weren’t allowed in, and I don’t care what excuses they make - that’s an extremely worrisome precedent.
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Reminder that Mayor Adams’ public schedule is a farce since the team just seems to randomly decide what does and doesn’t go on there, and also he hasn’t released retroactive detailed public schedules for the last *14 MONTHS,* a huge reduction in transparency from de Blasio.
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“It’s disturbing," Speaker Adams says about posts like this and others from the NYPD. "It’s very, very troubling that we’d see a city agency, particularly as potent as the NYPD, performing these actions on social media. It’s not something we would encourage our children to do."
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NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry
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Gather round, because it’s time for another episode of the “Revolving Door of NYC Criminal Justice!” Today, we meet Ruddell Faulkner, who was arrested for the SIXTH time this year! He is on pace for being arrested 36 times this year. Can Ruddel do it? Will the Judges of New York…
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3 years
Damn @AndrewYang and @KGforNYC are really doing the thing.
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Morally obligated to place this engagement announcement in First Read, since @CaitDorman and I met in the newsroom in 2017.
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Mayor Adams is acting like the departures from his admin are no big deal. Sure, it's a massive admin, but the people leaving are in some of *the* biggest and most important positions. e.g. first deputy mayor, chief of staff, NYPD, chief counsel, comms, DHS, DOB, intergov.
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3 years
Breaking: Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO to mount a run in City Council District 26.
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Mayor Eric Adams on the eclipse glasses: “is it supposed to be this dark?!”
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4 years
Tired: Reading The Power Broker Wired: Using The Power Broker to press tofu
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The sacred texts of New York political Twitter.
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Jeff Coltin
7 months
Mayor Adams must release his official List of Haters.
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Dana Rubinstein
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@NYCMayor @michaelgartland The mayor just suggested he has a list in his office of his frequent critics (unless I misheard)?
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Jeff Coltin
11 months
Can’t dispute a graph with no y axis.
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Ralph Millman
11 months
The only Republican in the 47th district council race is @Avery4Brooklyn . Early voting starts this Saturday. Vote for Avery. Don't be fooled by fake Republicans.
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Borough of Queens, you've had a good run for 70 years. Brooklyn, now is your time.
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I know we all joke about de Blasio sleeping in but damn I think I miss the big guy already 😢
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3 years
“Are you going to be tough on crime? That’s what New York City needs right now,” says Don Lemon says to Eric Adams, who should probably submit this interview as an in-kind donation.
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How will you be different than de Blasio? Colbert asks Eric Adams. “Imma get up in the morning” he says.
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Jeff Coltin
2 years
Relatedly, Rep. Ritchie Torres IS RUNNING UNOPPOSED in a BIDEN +70 DISTRICT. This fundraising email is lying to his list.
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Megan Wylie
2 years
Gonna start accepting bets on how many last minute pre-filing fundraising emails I get today
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Jeff Coltin
2 years
Adams giving his brother a job made the front page of Reddit. This has gone wayyyyy beyond just NYC political circles. The mayor can, and has, tried to justify it and explain it but it’s the kind of thing that immediately strikes outside observers as “wrong.”
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Adams' response would have been "perfectly reasonable, perhaps even necessary" - if only it WERE a Sox cap.
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2 years
Rep. Malliotakis’ statement is wrong, and purposefully misleading. There was never a $1 billion budget cut to the NYPD, it was $322 million, and that funding was reinstated *and then some* the following year. @cbcny with the figures:
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3 years
Time for Twitter to draw conclusions with woefully incomplete data!!!!!!
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Jeff Coltin
3 years
By all means, fair for Team Adams to criticize Garcia and Yang. But “voter suppression” and “steal(ing) the election?!” I fail to see the logic there.
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Menashe Shapiro
3 years
More leaders calling this ‘partnership’ what it is…
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