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Mayor inspects the product before photo op where seized cannabis will be incinerated
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Biggest rally of the NY governor’s race thus far.
Long Island turning out for this Zeldin-DeSantis event.
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A smiling Steve Bannon outside court: “This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”
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So AOC is taping town hall right now at Einstein College of Medicine with MSNBC's Chris Hayes (airing tonight) and the rock star reception she gets in the room is truly startling. Never seen anything remotely like it with another politician.
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Modest crowd at
@BilldeBlasio
's first campaign stop of the day in Cedar Rapids, about 15-20 people. Introduced by state Senator Rob Hogg.
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Plaque at Brooklyn church honoring Robert E. Lee coming down at 10am tomorrow.
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“The law department will have to answer that. All I do is burn.” -Mayor
Full story
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Turnout citywide for yesterday's Dem primaries was 10%, per data whiz
@SR_spatial
.
Broken down by district:
District 5 (Meeks) 4%
District 9 (Clarke) 9%
District 11 (Dems) 9%
District 11 (GOP) 18%
District 12 (Maloney) 15%
District 14 (Crowley) 12%
District 16 (Engel) 10%
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Defunding the NYPD is not a priority of the city's likely Democratic voters, according to our new
@NY1
poll.
39% said crime or violence is one of the city's main problems. (Second only to Covid.)
Only 11% said police reform.
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28 Assembly members in NYC faced primaries, mostly from the left
27 of them appear headed to victory
Jose Rivera of the Bronx the only odd man out
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Neither
@BilldeBlasio
nor
@SenGillibrand
hit 1% in new CNN poll. Accounting for rounding, that means fewer than *5 people* supported them, out of 1,001 respondents.
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Citywide turnout for yesterday's election will end up around 8.8%.
@JumaaneWilliams
won decisively with 133,809 votes.
That's 2.9% of the city's registered voters.
1.6% of the city's total population.
For a citywide office that's first in line of succession to the mayor.
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Lots of love for the Bronx at this AOC town hall, despite national focus. Most in audience say they are from Bx, as is host
@chrislhayes
. And AOC gets some woops when she mentions Parkchester bodega she says she still goes to.
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Almost 9 times as many New Yorkers have died from coronavirus (23,741) as from the Sept. 11 attacks (2,753)
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.
@NYGovCuomo
to sign executive order allowing clerks to perform marriage ceremonies by video, and issue licenses remotely. "There's now no excuse when the question comes up," he says of marriage proposals. “You can do it by Zoom."
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"I don’t like the way he was pushed out," Rudy Giuliani said when I asked him about Cuomo's resignation today. "He was pushed out based on Letitia James’ totally unethical press conference, in which she spent an hour and a half telling us all the things he did wrong.”
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I count about 40 people here for Steve Bannon event on Staten Island tonight.
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Maya Wiley's Round 10 votes broke like this:
Kathryn Garcia 72.5%
Eric Adams 27.5%
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AOC actually chides some in the audience at this MSNBC town hall for heckling former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis. Calls it "unacceptable" and, turning to Inglis: "That's the difference between me and Trump."
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AOC does not offer much when asked about her political future. Says it's possible "I'm in office for two years and I take huge political risks and they kick me out."
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AOC backed 7 insurgent candidates in the Assembly
Only 1 is leading her race, Sarahana Shrestha in the Hudson Valley, vs incumbent Kevin Cahill
Another AOC-backed candidate, Juan Ardila, is winning the race for an open seat in Queens
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Grim milestone: as of yesterday, 1% of the population of New York City has contracted coronavirus.
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Interesting to see some in crowd hiss and heckle former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis's after he references to "Tea Party of the left." AOC: "The Koch brothers funded the Tea Party and everyday people funded my campaign."
Inglis is anti-Trump and has long worked to fight climate change.
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In a bizarre alignment of the news cosmos, I was literally *the only* reporter at
@NYGovCuomo
's press availability today to discuss his White House meeting with
@realDonaldTrump
yesterday.
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Dean Skelos sentenced to 4 years + 3 months in prison. Former state Senate majority leader had gotten 5 years after his first trial.
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at
@NYLawSchool
graduation,
@PreetBharara
says introduction left out that "I was fired by the President of the US. It's ok, i’m doing fine."
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Maybe lost in other news today, new messaging from
@NYCHealthCommr
: "Before, we were saying ‘Stay home for three or four days.’ Now I’m telling you, don’t call your doctor at least for three or four days, and having a test doesn’t really matter."
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In a possible breach of journalistic ethics, I just ate a chocolate cookie that
@SenGillibrand
gave me.
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.
@GovernorPataki
, when I asked about his history with Cuomo on
@InsideCityHall
: "He said I held Giuliani’s coat after September 11th. Andrew, I’ll be happy to hold your coat on the way out."
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Despite tiny crowd,
@BilldeBlasio
spent *53 minutes* speaking and taking questions. Not to mention talking/taking photos before & after with anyone who asked.
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Another big score for
@CabanForQueens
: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner expected to endorse her candidacy for Queens DA tomorrow, per source. He won huge upset in 2017 and has earned national renown as a "progressive prosecutor."
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Without mentioning him by name,
@SenSchumer
makes clear he is sharply at odds with
@NYGovCuomo
over his push to squeeze Amtrak out of Gateway tunnel project. "To cut Amtrak out is dumb," he says at ABNY breakfast.
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"I need to do laundry. I need to fix an electric circuit in my house, and maybe clean out my refrigerator."
-Kathryn Garcia
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.
@mayawiley
teed off this morning on the Eric Adams soundbite currently making the rounds, which actually dates to February
NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Eric Adams: “With new technology you don’t need school children to be in a school building with a number of teachers. It’s just the opposite. You could have one teacher teach 300-400 students.”
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By my math, final turnout in the public advocate election will end up around 8.7%
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Out of NYC's 8.8M residents (per 2020 Census):
1 in every 236 has died from COVID
1 in every 58 has been hospitalized
And roughly 1 in every 4 has been infected
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City Hall was not aware until moments before he arrived that Trump would be visiting the 17th Precinct in Midtown and the adjacent firehouse, per source.
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A Super PAC funded by the world's richest woman, Alice Walton, has poured $116K into a Bronx City Council special election that will will probably draw 7,000 voters.
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Andrew Yang's Round 9 votes broke this way:
Kathryn Garcia 45.7%
Eric Adams 38.5%
Maya Wiley 15.8%
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Far as I can tell,
@BilldeBlasio
is only candidate at this point to call for a boycott of Walmart. "I say we take money out of the hands of Walmart, or anyone who is threatening our communities," he told gun forum. "Just take the money away from them."
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@NYCMayor
on MSNBC, seemingly unmoved by Cuomo: "My responsibility is not to another elected official, my responsibility is to those kids." And: "I run the school system under mayoral control of education... This is the right direction to go, and this is what we're going to do."
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2010 anti-Kissinger rally also featured goateed Bill de Blasio
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“It’s all nonsense. They will never shut me up.” -Steve Bannon leaving courtroom
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Last night I addressed misinformation that aired this week on
@InsideCityHall
via union leader Oren Barzilay, who represents
@FDNY
EMTs, paramedics & fire inspectors.
He made false and misleading claims about COVID vaccines, inc that they cause death and infertility. 1/
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@SenGillibrand
has gotten visibly choked up several times today while stumping, including while talking about refugees, Sandy victims and racial discrimination. When she imagines her own kids being discriminated against, she says, "It creates a rage in me."
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Chorus of boos at
@ewarren
rally when first audience questioner mentions
@NYGovCuomo
trying to woo back Amazon.
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Trump, in VA, repeats the wildly false claim that murder rate "is the highest its been in 45 years." It's actually near the 45-year low.
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Trump was asked by an NYPD officer today if he's going to run again. “For me it’s an easy question. I know what I’m going to do," he said. "I think you're going to be happy. Let me put it that way, ok? I think you're going to be very happy."
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Bad night for DSA-endorsed City Council candidates, with 5 of 6 trailing.
Alexa Aviles is the exception, has healthy lead in District 38.
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First time (far as I know) that Rosie O'Donnell has done any politicking on behalf of her brother. Didn't go all that great.
Daniel O'Donnell pulled out all the stops on the eve of the special election for public advocate — he had his sister,
@Rosie
, join the campaign's phone-banking operation. Here's how that went. .
#NY1Politics
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@ericadamsfornyc
says he misspoke, meant to say 30-40, not 300-400, and in any case was talking about an opt-in program
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Line down the block of people w/ COVID-19 symptoms, waiting to be pre-screened outside Brooklyn Hospital ER today.
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“I think he should explore discovering an island a thousand miles away from here.”—Simcha Felder, on de Blasio’s exploratory committee
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@NYGovCuomo
acknowledges downside to allowing states to set their own reopening timetables, e.g. beaches reopening in Florida. "You open a beach, people will drive from everywhere to go to a beach. If it was a little closer, I might drive to go to the beach."
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4 ex-City Council members are about to become members of... the City Council.
Charles Barron, Darlene Mealy, Tony Avella & Gale Brewer.
Sal Albanese appears he will fall short.
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.
@HillaryClinton
tells Medgar Evers grads: "Speak out on social media. Make your voices heard every single day."
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Giuliani also called it a “massive con job” and said James should be disciplined for saying which witnesses she believed. Echoed a lot of Team Cuomo’s arguments about the AG’s findings.
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@AndrewYang
openly weeped onstage just now at Everytown for Gun Safety forum, after hearing story of mother affected by gun violence. Not just teared up. Like actually crying.
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Every city street would get rated for cleanliness under “CleanStat” plan from
@ShaunDonovanNYC
, who bashes
@NYCMayor
on trash pickup.
“Our current Mayor believes that everything is ideological, everything is political.”
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In bizarre line of questioning today, defense atty Stephen Coffey suggested Todd Howe was lying about origin of "Herb" nickname he and Percoco called each other. He asked if in fact it was a reference to 1985 Burger King commercial. Howe had no idea what he was talking about.
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We went to London to check out their congestion pricing program, which charges drivers £11.50 (~$15) to enter the city center. New installment in our five-part series airs each night this week on
@InsideCityHall
.
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New Congressional maps pass the state Senate, 43-20.
“We’ve come up with fair maps that the state can be proud of." -Sen. Gianaris
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As testing capacity expands,
@NYGovCuomo
will now allow all pharmacies to become testing sites. Also: expanding eligibility to all essential employees along with first responders and health care workers.
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Right now Crowley leads Richards by 28 votes, but the important number is the 20,025 votes that Jimmy Van Bramer has. Race comes down to those voters' second choice.
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< 10 minutes to the start of our public advocate debate! Me and
@nahmias
are serving as panelists alongside moderator par excellence
@errollouis
.
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Everytown founder
@MikeBloomberg
noted
@realDonaldTrump
spoke to NRA's Wayne LaPierre this week. “Now the President can either find the backbone to stand up to the NRA, or once again he can bow down to the NRA and kiss Wayne’s ring - or maybe kiss something else."
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Fearless Girl statue: potent symbol of women's empowerment, or corporate gimmick? We'll have another year to debate.
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“People in Bay Ridge don’t trust you, man"
recap of a great debate between
@JustinBrannan
and
@AriKagan47
last night:
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Latin America trip, Day 1:
Mayor Adams got a private, after-hours tour of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of world’s holiest sites for Catholics
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2 City Council races still worth watching at this point:
Justin Brannan holding on to an uncomfortably narrow lead of just 2 points (424 votes) with about 90% of scanners reported.
Tony Avella now losing to Republican Vicky Paladino by almost 3 points (562 votes).
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David Rockefeller left big imprint on NYC. Driving force behind original WTC, MoMA, 1970s fiscal rescue. Our obit:
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@SenGillibrand
We beat
@SenGillibrand
to Iowa by a day. Will be trailing her at events today and tomorrow, starting with Sioux City. Morning rush-hour traffic is lighter here.
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Percoco jury begins deliberating, sends judge a note within about 2 minutes. It's a request for a 15-minute break.
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Charles Barron or his wife will have held the same City Council seat for 22 years by the time the next election rolls around.
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@InsideCityHall
@FDNY
Vaccines do not cause widespread death.
COVID has killed 33,519 people in NYC.
Barzilay was on to respond to the mayor’s vaccination/testing mandate. Not to spread dangerous misinformation.
Again, this union leader reps 4,300 city workers, many of them medical professionals.
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@SenGillibrand
references her 2006 campaign: "I first ran for Congress in a red, red, red district in upstate NY that nobody thought i could win." Doesn't mention her conservative positions at the time on immigration, gun rights, noting instead her vote against bank bailout.
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The bad news for public advocate candidate
@MMViverito
: she had to take out a $236,402 loan from Amalgamated Bank last week, per
@NYCCFB
filings. The good news: she will likely take in $480,000 in matching funds this week, enough to buy plenty of ads before Tuesday's election.
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Andrew Yang BREAKDOWN:
Of his Round 7 vote tally, 28% of ballots were exhausted (i.e. voters did not rank Adams, Wiley or Garcia). The rest of the numbers are *exactly* the same numbers as yesterday.
Garcia 45.7%
Adams 38.5%
Wiley 15.8%
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Still, said Cuomo made the right decision to resign b/c “things were piling up on him.”
“It was making it impossible for the man to function as governor. And I say that giving him the benefit of the presumption of innocence. Which is long gone in Biden’s America.”
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NYC's first upscale head shop sells bongs-as-collectible-art for $30K+. Full 4-part series starts airing tonight on
@InsideCityHall
at 7p.
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Sharpest HRC zinger: “Oh, I’ve had a few setbacks in my own life. And losing an election is pretty devastating, considering who I lost to."
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Prosecution went straight to ziti in its closing argument, quoting directly from his emails. "This is not how honest and honorable public servants talk. This is how criminals talk."
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Teamsters Local 237 breaks from parent union, endorses Harris
exclu interview w Greg Floyd
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More from
@NYGovCuomo
- "I wear the mask and my daughter wears a mask. The dog doesn’t wear a mask."
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