NY City Mayoral Race

About Eric Adams, the best thing about him is that he appears to be genuinely committed to police reform. As an ex-cop, he is better positioned than anyone else in the race to deliver on it in a meaningful way. Shades of Nixon to China.

Continuing with the Nixon parallel, he is a crook and prone to fits of paranoia. There is a mini scandal at the moment having to do with his seeming lack of a home. The property he lists on some forms appears to be rented to someone else. There is a good chance he is earning income on that property but not reporting the income and paying taxes on it. Might seem to some to be a minor thing. But multiply it by 20 and you get an idea of how he has been cutting corners for most of his adult life.

He is also close to a certain class of developer, the same cesspool from which sprang one of our recent presidents. Proximity to that class of developer is usually not a good thing in a New York politician.

The last thing I'll say is that Eric Adams appears to have been a Republican at an earlier point in his life. That counts as a positive in my book. For a black man in a predominantly liberal city like New York that says something about his independence of mind. Now he downplays that because of course it has mainly downside politically.
 
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acesfull86 said:
Yang finished 4th …maybe it’s time this cat finds a new line of work
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He is weak and doesn’t stand for anything that might be controversial. He has great ideas and I think could be an excellent politician but for God sake stand for something that might piss some people off.
 
political implications of an Adams' victory

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

“America is saying, we want to have justice and safety and end inequalities,” Mr. Adams declared at a news conference on Thursday, offering his take on the party’s direction. “And we don’t want fancy candidates.”

Mr. Adams’s allies and advisers say that from the start, he based his campaign strategy on connecting with working- and middle-class voters of color.

“Over the last few cycles, the winners of the mayor’s race have started with a whiter, wealthier base generally, and then expanded out,” said Evan Thies, an Adams spokesman and adviser. Mr. Adams’s campaign, he said, started “with low-income, middle-income, Black, Latino, immigrant communities, and then reached into middle-income communities.”

“He was in the police force, he knows what they represent,” said Gloria Dees, 63, a Brooklyn resident who voted for Mr. Adams and described being deeply concerned about both rising crime and police violence against people of color. “You have to understand something in order to make it work better.”
 
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Even though Eric Adams had a comfortable lead election night, looks like it is going to be very close between him and Kathryn Garcia.

https://web.enrboenyc.us/rcv/024306_11.html

Mail-in ballots yet to be counted. Good chance they will put Garcia over the top.

The Yang and Wiley voters broke heavily for Garcia once they were eliminated. Much more heavily than polls were indicating.
 
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Eric Adams released a statement this afternoon that sounds like it was plagiarized from 45. Hopefully, we aren't seeing a new normal where whoever loses an election immediately cries foul about how votes were counted and why results changed after election night.
 
This is Adams' statement. I think the answer to his question is that on election night there were significant numbers of votes (especially in the Bronx) that were yet to be counted. I was wondering about that myself. I thought his lead would grow when they were counted. But the Bronx is pretty diverse and there are some parts of it that vote more like Manhattan. Adams ran a good campaign, but there has been a sizeable anybody but Adams vote out there.

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This graph suggest Garcia will do better with the absentee voting that the votes that have been counted so far. She needs about 58% of the absentee vote share (in the final round) to overtake Adams.

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Even though he came in 4th, Yang pushed hard for his supporters to put Garcia down as their second choice. He played Go while everyone else was playing chess or checkers.
 
Shades of Iowa. New York's administrative incompetence when it comes to running elections is a scandal.
 
Incompetence. Cheating. All of the above?

Love when people pretend our election processes are above reproach.
 
HahahHhaha

Great system we have. If nobody said anything they would have gotten away with it.

Sound familiar?
 
McCann'sCans said:
Eric Adams released a statement this afternoon that sounds like it was plagiarized from 45. Hopefully, we aren't seeing a new normal where whoever loses an election immediately cries foul about how votes were counted and why results changed after election night.
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You were saying?
 
And you guys think the presidential election was fair?

Can’t wait to see all your reactions when the inevitable happens. The shame is that trump will still not be the president as we will forever have a fraudulent administration that ruined the nation.

What a joke our country has become.
 
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Adams Probabaly has some good analysts on his team.

Analytics tell all. Cheating can’t be hidden.
 
thethe said:
And you guys think the presidential election was fair?

Can’t wait to see all your reactions when the inevitable happens. The shame is that trump will still not be the president as we will forever have a fraudulent administration that ruined the nation.

What a joke our country has become.
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And it only took Trump 4 years to make the country a joke. Always the overachiever.



Ps - lol you losers still cant get over losing. Never stop never stopping. 20 years from now your still going to be crying and I am still going to keep roasting you for it.
 
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