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Eric Adams is daring the left to take him on -- and they're game
PoliticoNEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams had just finished announcing the launch of a controversial police unit dedicated to rooting out illegal handguns and was headed to City Hall as more than 100 politicians and activists gathered outside the Tweed Courthouse, around the corner from his office.
The demonstrators — united under a new left-leaning alliance called “The People’s Plan” that has been several years in the making — were opposing as reductive and dangerous the very initiative Adams considers a necessary step in curbing the rise in violence across New York City. Instead, they called on him to invest more money in an array of municipal services.
“Our budget is a moral document and the preliminary budget that we’ve seen lays bare our moral failings,” City Council Member Crystal Hudson, who belongs to the body’s progressive caucus, declared as Adams’ SUV cruised past the rally.
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It may seem counterintuitive that a new mayor who won the Democratic primary by just 7,197 votes — eight-tenths of 1 percent — would so confidently brush off his critics as they are gearing up to challenge him, at a moment in his tenure when many leaders would be looking to broaden their appeal.
But Adams knows political trends are working to his benefit: From President Joe Biden to Mayor Jacob Frey in Minneapolis, centrist candidates have been seizing executive power throughout the Democratic Party, even as far-left lawmakers made recent gains in the New York City Council and the Boston mayor’s race last year. Large cities throughout the country backed pro-police candidates and ballot measures in a seeming rebuke to the “defund” the police movement that had taken hold following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
The demonstrators — united under a new left-leaning alliance called “The People’s Plan” that has been several years in the making — were opposing as reductive and dangerous the very initiative Adams considers a necessary step in curbing the rise in violence across New York City. Instead, they called on him to invest more money in an array of municipal services.
“Our budget is a moral document and the preliminary budget that we’ve seen lays bare our moral failings,” City Council Member Crystal Hudson, who belongs to the body’s progressive caucus, declared as Adams’ SUV cruised past the rally.
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It may seem counterintuitive that a new mayor who won the Democratic primary by just 7,197 votes — eight-tenths of 1 percent — would so confidently brush off his critics as they are gearing up to challenge him, at a moment in his tenure when many leaders would be looking to broaden their appeal.
But Adams knows political trends are working to his benefit: From President Joe Biden to Mayor Jacob Frey in Minneapolis, centrist candidates have been seizing executive power throughout the Democratic Party, even as far-left lawmakers made recent gains in the New York City Council and the Boston mayor’s race last year. Large cities throughout the country backed pro-police candidates and ballot measures in a seeming rebuke to the “defund” the police movement that had taken hold following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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