They are all “highly” qualified. /s

Almost don’t want to comment in this subreddit because of all the Adams’ sockpuppet accounts but <deep breath> this guy sucks balls. Never thought we were downgrading when DeBlasio left, and he’s even worse than David “million dollar headboard” Dinkins…which is saying something.

This entire subreddit constantly shits on Adams, no need to worry about “sock puppet accounts”

Unpopular opinion in this sub: Yang was the best candidate. But the media had the knives out for him and some people swallowed the xenophobic lies hook line and sinker.

He was, but progressives “cancelled” him for making the “radical” comment that mentally ill men shouldn’t be allowed to wander the streets assaulting Asian women.

The progressives cancelled him for condemning Hamas. The classic 2-for-1 xenophobia and antisemitism special. Don’t forget both AOC and Wiley refused to meet with Jewish organizations.

Kathryn Garcia would have gotten the job done

Possibly, but the fact that she pretty much only resonated with wealthy NYers was a bit concerning. Adams had the poor/working class PoC vote which gave him the edge, as seen by the primary breakdown: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-nyc-mayoral-analysis/

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No he was not

I said it was an unpopular opinion lol

That’s true but it’s both unpopular and incorrect.

Jesus he blocked me over that?

Ok whatever you say dude. Enjoy the rest of the Adams/Bragg administration

Yang came in 4th place. Despite beginning the race with the most name recognition. He was a bad candidate. The first time he ever voted in a NYC mayoral primary and election was for himself despite living here almost two decades. He never once participated in local politics or elections. I don't know how anyone could take him seriously.

To my immigrant ears, this somewhat translates to “Yang did not pay his dues to the establishment”…which is not necessarily a bad thing? It doesn’t help all the attacks calling him “not a real New Yorker” when he’s lived here for more than twenty years.

>To my immigrant ears,

Oh give me a fucking break with this. There are immigrant politicians in this city who have always voted and participated in elections. And they went on to get elected and fight like hell for their community. Yang has no excuse. He never showed any interest in this city or in his own neighborhood. That's the reason many people didn't even know he lived here - he was a non entity in local politics and policy. It's embarrassing you can't see him for the phony he is.

And how’s that status quo working out given that we are on a thread about…more blatant corruption from the Adams administration? The De Blasio—Adams years have been a disaster.

I care a lot more about whether someone votes than whether they would be a competent administrator and effective leader. I think there’s a valid argument against Yang as a CEO and campaign leader, where he gave multiple competing executive titles to different people ( MLK III, Neha Sasha Ahuja, some other political consultant whose name I forgot). But the voting argument appealed only to a small amount of activists who were distraught that their political machine could be disrupted by someone who launched his political career from a podcast. Ross Barkan explained Yang’s threat clearly:

“First, let’s pause for a moment and reflect on what it would mean if, indeed, Yang wins the June 22nd Democratic primary and coasts in the general election against nominal Republican opposition. He will have demonstrated the hollowness of most political institutions in the five boroughs. An entrepreneur who got famous running for president and hardly bothered to vote in New York at all, Yang was able to capture, in a matter of months, constituencies that ladder-climbing political lifers could not, despite their many attempts. It only took four months or so for Yang to completely lock up the Hasidic vote in Borough Park, Brooklyn, for example, despite the fact that Adams and Stringer have been pandering to this community for years, and Stringer once cheered on rocket attacks on Gaza. That work, clearly, was for naught. Yang gave ground on all their issues to a distressing degree, particularly on BDS and Palestine, but most Democrats have been doing that for a while. The Hasidic leaders are a pragmatic bunch and they clearly see the writing on the wall. This Yang guy, who they had barely heard of before January, might be going places.”

And yes, the xenophobia against Asian-American candidates from the white establishment is real. Look at how NPR received Wu’s win in the much better run Boston: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1055972179/boston-first-black-mayor

Yea forreal. There’s almost no disagreement on Adams, it’s really most often about which direction public policy should go and the underlying philosophy.

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Serious question, but why does anyone need to meet with Jewish organizations? Does anyone meet with Mongolian, Indian, Guatemalan, or Cambodian organizations?

That's an unpopular opinion because Andrew Yang is a moron. His entire platform is UBI, which he has no idea how to scale, and Venture for America, which is a total failure and has less total participants over the life of the program than he promised would be the annual participation numbers.

From a civics point of view, no, there is no obligation to meet with these organizations. I do think that candidates should meet with all of them. I’ve also recently heard a good argument that to some extent, Native American tribes get better representation because they actually have elected leaders who are politically accountable ( through the elections) to the communities they claim to represent—-as opposed to a patchwork of self-appointed “leaders”

Nevertheless, public snubs determine whose concerns are to be taken seriously and who should be shunned or scapegoated. Jews have been kicked out of practically every European and middle eastern country—-and many of us are sensitive to pogroms coming to America ( we’ve already seen pogroms in Newark and South Boston, where the Jewish communities were ethnically cleansed in the late 60s)

For example of how snubbing Jewish leaders contributes to anti-semitism, you have the example of CUNY which is a hotbed of harassment for Jewish students and faculty. When the city council called the CUNY president for a meeting, he just snubbed them ( https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/cuny-boss-a-no-show-as-jewish-students-decry-anti-semitism/ ) tacitly allowing harassment of Jewish students at cuny.

That is an actual valid criticism of Yang!

I'm not trying to say that the Jewish community doesn't have legitimate concerns (as does every community), but the idea that if a candidate doesn't kow-tow to a minority community means that they're all of a sudden "anti" said community just doesn't sit right with me. I don't think Andrew Yang is anti-Jewish (the same way I don't think he's anti Cambodian or anti Indian or anti Nepalese)....I just think he's a buffoon with half-baked ideas.

dont read this guys post submission history

edit: why are you a four year old account who has only started commenting less than a year ago with more than 10 comments a day, with every comment being related to biking, crime, or political candidates?

and almost every comment is in nyc or newyorkcity

How do I become an Adams ally?

Who are you stalking me? What relevance does that have to this conversation?

I can't take anyone's political opinion seriously when they don't think it's important whether their candidate of choice has ever voted.

astroturfing

Ok you do you 👉

their username is grass, sounds pretty far from astroturf to me

Do you run your HOA board? https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops

“The woke world is a world of snitches, informants, rats. Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance. Everybody is to be judged. Everyone is under suspicion. Everything you say is to be scoured, picked over, analyzed for any possible offense. Everyone’s a detective in the Division of Problematics, and they walk the beat 24/7. You search and search for someone Bad doing Bad Things, finding ways to indict writers and artists and ordinary people for something, anything. That movie that got popular? Give me a few hours and 800 words. I’ll get you your indictments. That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and who’s Bad. I wonder why people run away from establishment progressivism in droves.”

There did seem to be a good amount of pro-Adams brigading leading up to the election, to be fair.

Is Adams participating now?

Meeting Jewish organizations would be going above and beyond.

If AOC and the likes just stopped with the antisemitism, that would be a great start. Not a very high bar, but it’s a start.

There are 1.6 million Jewish people in NYC which has a total population somewhere between 8 and 9 million people in total.

Technically speaking, nobody ever needs to meet with any minority groups. But if you're trying to win an election for public office, it's probably a good idea to do so if that minority group is significant enough in size. Like looking at your list, I would say that someone should meet with an Indian organization (200,000+ in NYC), but probably not a Guatemalan (70k in the whole state), Mongolian, or Cambodian (can't find population figures for those groups) organization. In lieu of a Guatemalan, Mongolian, or Cambodian organization, they should meet with a Hispanic/Latino or Asian organization.

I like Yang, I supported him very hard for his presidential run, but he absolutely was not the best candidate for mayor. Was he a better candidate than Adams? Sure, I can probably agree with that. Better than the rest of the field? No, definitely not. I definitely agree with your point about the media though, and I would say that their intense focus on Yang let Adams skate through the entire primary without being properly scrutinized.

Same w every politician... why ppl act surprised every 4 years? We the clowns who keep voting. Maybe no one vote, let's see what happens (three has to be a quorum for it to count).

https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201

You gotta get his nose.

Lol I was literally down voted to -40 last week for saying "maybe we shouldn't shit on republican corruption in SI when we don't have a great track record with nyc democrats."

I believe I was told to go choke on some more Trump cock you moron.

It depends. You can shit on him in a vacuum or if you call him a republican.

If you paint him as endemic of the NE democratic machine then it gets bad

I'm not sure how being a moron disqualifies anyone from being NYC mayor unfortunately

You thought he could run the US but not NYC?

Do I have that straight?

This is why networking is more important than anything, who needs to spam apply for jobs on indeed when your friend can get you in?

This guy is an attorney.

Is he not qualified for a legal counsel position?

Jesse Hamilton was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Ithaca College, received his M.B.A. from Long Island University in 1990 and his J.D. from Seton Hall university in 1994.

Jesse spent 28 years in the New York City Department of Finance conducting small claims hearing for property tax reductions. He also served as Vice President of Community Board 8 for seven years in Crown Heights, and was a DC37 Union Member for 28 years. He is a member of the New York State Bar and Brooklyn Bar Association

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Can you please explain why he is not qualified to have a legal counsel job for NYC?

Are these positions eligible for pensions?

A lot of people in this sub can’t handle the fact that Democrats do corruption just as much as republicans. Only difference is they hide it with identity politics

What’s the corruption? How is it not completely normal to fill an administration with friends and supporters? It’s obviously what happens at the national level and no one ever cares, why does this matter? Does joe Biden have a lot of people on his cabinet that opposed his election? Why aren’t you bitching about all that corruption? I’ll take my answer never cause we all know what you have to say.

I love how he hiring former IDC people. The republicans who cos played as democrats. But hey diversity right.

Well atleast David Dinkins got rid of those corrupt cops from the 72nd Precint, who were working with the Dominican Cartel and drug dealers, lining their pockets.

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I think at this point no one would be surprised if Adams is eventually brought up on charges for selling his office.

I am not a fan of politicians hiring their buddies for high paying jobs that they may or may not be qualified. Looks bad, and how do we know things will be on the up and up if it's your pals?

No the difference is democrats will typically call it out and denounce it while republicans typically excuse it or even support it.

Bad criminals go to jail. The best go into government.

Which Democrats denounced Adams hiring his brother to a high paid job. Or denounced Houchl for the buffalo bills stadium that her husband’s company will be paid millions to operate the concession stands for. I’ll wait till you show who called it out.

Democrats do it as well, just not as well.

There were always corrupt cops, and there will always be corrupt cops.

Maybe shit on them both? Why do we have to choose?

I don't think I've ever seen any positive comments about Adams on this subreddit.

I actually like De Blasio better. I don’t care. Corrupt De Blasio vs openly and incredibly corrupt Adams.

No, you don’t

The victim complex. This sub is a 24-hour cycle of shitting on Adams (99.9% deservedly so).

Not a fan of the Mayor, but this is what politicians do

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I'm fine with both. I highly encourage both. Both is how it should be.

This was very much "Why do people vote republican they are always thieves. This wouldn't be a problem if they voted dem"

They tell us the list keeps growing but they don't give us the whole list.
I want the whole list so I can talk about the total of their salaries.

What NYC democrats have called out Adams for his consistent bullshit?

Which is why I said Adams is worse than Dinkins

Why pick on Adams? Not like he’s the Mayor or something. OH…wait…

Gotta earn positive comments. When Adams earns it, he’ll get it.

Give him cheese.

A 3rd party? If we have Ranked Choice voting then the whole "You're throwing away your vote" thing goes away and Open Primaries make everything more open to the public.

Hence the deservedly so. Just pointing out how your Adam’s sock puppet comment is laughably dramatic

Don’t most politicians hire their political allies ?

1. Build a time machine;

2. Go back to 1985;

3. Take a chance on a plucky young cop with pie-in-the-sky dreams of convincing people that he's a democrat.

Laughably dramatic but painfully true. It’s not zero sum game.

Give him a bubble bath

I'll just leave this here

https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201