NYC Mayor has a new reason for hiring his brother...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

I recall Adams saying during the campaign that he wouldn't NEED a security detail because he still carried a gun.

Brooklyn BP: I Would Carry a Gun if Elected Mayor

NEW YORK - Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams says if elected to be mayor, he would carry a gun and drop his security detail.

The comments came during an interview with the FAQ NYC podcast Thursday.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2020/01/31/eric-adams-says-he-would-carry-a-gun-if-elected-mayor-

[malaise]

1. This is absolute madness

That is all

[Celerity]

15. $240,000 a year or so (what his brother would be paid, as that is the normal salary range) madness

Damn near 2 million USD IF Adams serves two terms and his brother serves in the same position for both terms.

[PTWB]

21. I don't think that salary is madness for that position. Not by a long shot.

That isn't to say I agree with Adams giving this position to his brother. Not at all. But that pay actually seems a little low for that position in a city like New York.

What's really madness is how criminally low the pay is for working class jobs. The wage disparity between the C level executives and those who work for them is madness.

[Celerity]

22. I was not calling the pay itself (for that position) madness. I was riffing off of Malaise's term.

[PTWB]

23. My bad!

[Celerity]

24. no problem, I can see I was unclear

[edhopper]

2. I didn't vote for him

and thought he was clownish at times on the campaign trail. I hoped that was for show and he would be a more reasoned administrator when he took office. I am not encouraged so far.

[Me.]

6. Clownish Is What I Thought Too

when he expressed views such as children should only sleep 6-7 hours a night and one teacher could teach 4-700 children remotely. But now with the hire of Banks and his brother I am getting a sinking feeling and am beginning to wonder how long he will last.

[edhopper]

7. I think if the GOP

had run someone who was more clownish in Sliwa, they might have won. And if Adams continues to mis-speak and makes these awkward moves, he could be a one term Mayor. Garcia was the better choice and we might rue not nominating her.

[Me.]

10. I Though Garcia Was An Excellent Choice

and she was #1 on my ballot followed by Maya Wiley. Adams was so lucky the cons ran Sliwa.

[calguy]

3. I have a feeling NYC's next mayor will be republican.

Hope I'm wrong. Not my business though, I don't live there.

[Celerity]

16. Eric Adams was a Republican at one time.

Meet Eric Adams: The rat-hating, gun-toting former Republican in line to be New York City’s next mayor

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-adams-new-york-mayor-b1880611.html

He has also borrowed criminal justice rhetoric from Republicans, claiming Democrats have “abandoned our cities” and “demonised” law enforcement in debates over police reform.

“I understand crime, and I understand abuse,” he told CBS. “They throw up their hands and we’re continuing to see the same problems in our cities.”

He has previously said he carries a gun when he attends church, and he has suggested he would carry a gun if elected mayor.

In an interview with FAQ NYC in 2020, he said: “Yes, I will, number one, and number two, I won’t have a security detail. If the city is safe, the mayor shouldn’t have a security detail with him, he should be walking the streets by himself. Number three, the hypocrisy of those who are citywide officials who said that you shouldn’t have guns in church: those guys that walk in with them? They got guns. So there’s a level of hypocrisy for a citywide official to say no one should have a gun in the church, but they don’t tell their people, ‘Hey, hang outside.’ If we could protect them in a church with a gun then we can protect Miss Mary with her Bible with a gun.”

From 1997 until 2001, Mr Adams was registered to vote as a Republican. (In 1995, he told the New York Daily News that he believed “there are a large number of closet Black Republicans in the city, and if you take a close look at some of the concepts of the Republican Party, you’ll see that many of them are our values”.)

[calguy]

17. Thank You for enlightening me.

That explains some of his erratic actions.

[Greybnk48]

4. How about someone normal, like a woman? n/t

[edhopper]

8. Kathryn Garcia

should be Mayor. Voters made a bad choice.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

11. +1

[Polly Hennessey]

9. Like Maya Wiley. People always fall for the clowns.

Poor NYC.

[BlackSkimmer]

5. Wow, this just gets weirder and weirder.I get an odd vibe from him, not sure what it is.

SNL is going to have a blast.

[dhol82]

12. I've had a weird vibe about him since the beginning.

I voted for Garcia in the primary and really hoped she would come out the winner.
For the election I just couldn’t vote for Sliwa - he’s such an idiot.
We’ll see where this ends up. I am not optimistic.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. I don't live in NYC, but an old friend of mine does and she's like you.

Uneasy about him from the beginning.

Should be interesting.

[brooklynite]

20. I didn't vote for Adams in the Primary with any of my five choices

Neither did my wife and a number of my political friends.

[leftstreet]

14. He seems kinda Trumpish (for lack of a better word)

That swaggery, new kid in town, watch me!! thing

Only somehow if seems a bit more menacing

[BlackSkimmer]

18. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

[BlackSkimmer]

19. He's on with Tapper now. nt

[electric_blue68]

25. Maya Wiley was my first choice...

I was living in Brooklyn when Adams was Burrough President. I don't recall anything terrible, or really off putting that caught my attention.

I would never have voted for Silwa!

Wow, kids sleeping sleeping 6 - 7 hours at night?!!! Wth?
Kids brains are growing, they need a good amount of sleep.

Hopefully he'll end up being better than not. DB did some good stuff, not everything.