Eric Adams Is Challenged Over His Hiring of 3 Gay Marriage Foes

[Celerity]

L.G.B.T.Q. groups plan to protest on Thursday over the naming of three men to City Hall posts who they say hold homophobic views.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/nyregion/cabrera-eric-adams-lgbtq-protests.html

In 2014, as Uganda was promulgating a law that made some homosexual behavior punishable by life in prison, a councilman from the Bronx traveled to the country and hailed its “godly” governance.

“Gay marriage is not accepted in this country,” the councilman, Fernando Cabrera, said approvingly, sitting among palm trees in a video posted to YouTube. “Why? Because the Christians have assumed the place of decision-making for the nation. Abortions are illegal here, things that Christians really stand for.”

The video was subsequently removed from YouTube, but not before a gay rights activist and blogger, Andrés Duque, had downloaded it and reposted it online.

Now, eight years after his trip to Uganda, Mr. Cabrera’s embrace of a government that developed anti-gay laws at a time of anti-gay violence and even murder in the country is proving a political liability for Mayor Eric Adams, who recently named him to a position in his administration.

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[PoliticAverse]

1. What's the saying?

Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Not familiar with NYC but this guy sounds like trouble.

[Celerity]

3. Adams' proposed cuts to NYC schools come at "worst possible time," critics say

https://gothamist.com/news/adams-proposed-cuts-nyc-schools-come-worst-possible-time-critics-say

Mayor Eric Adams has touted his first budget as “radically practical.”

“My administration is laser-focused on fiscal discipline.” he said upon presenting his first budget Wednesday. “And we will make decisions that invest in our city and benefit all New Yorkers.”

But some parents and educators said they are alarmed by the plan to decrease education funding at a time when students’ academic and mental health needs are more acute than ever.

The city will reduce budgets for schools facing enrollment declines by $375 million – although officials said some of those cuts would be partially covered by federal stimulus dollars. Budget documents also show a reduction in the number of “pedagogues” – a group that could include teachers, administrators, counselors – by more than 3,200, though officials said many of those positions are already vacant.

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