The ex-NYPD Cop and Brooklyn Borough President is on his way to become the next “Big Apple ‘ Mayor…..
He’ll be the citiy’s second Black Mayor…
He has been called (AP) after the second round of ranked vote choice in New York City…..
Eric L. Adams, who rose from poverty to become an iconoclastic police captain and the borough president of Brooklyn, won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, putting him on track to become the second Black mayor in the history of the nation’s largest city.
The contest was seen as one of the city’s most critical elections in a generation, with the winner expected to help set New York on a recovery course from the economic devastation of Covid-19 and from the longstanding racial and socioeconomic inequalities that the pandemic deepened.
But as the campaign entered its final months, a spike in shootings and homicides drove public safety and crime to the forefront of voters’ minds, and Mr. Adams — the only leading candidate with a law enforcement background — moved urgently to demonstrate authority on the issue.
Mr. Adams held an 8,400-vote lead over Kathryn Garcia, a margin of one percentage point — small enough that it was not immediately clear whether she or any of his opponents would contest the result in court. All three leading candidates had filed to maintain the option to challenge the results. If no one does so, Mr. Adams’s victory could be certified as soon as next week….
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Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley, the two mayoral candidates who have consistently trailed Eric Adams in the election results as new tabulations have been released, did not concede on Tuesday evening, even after Mr. Adams declared victory and The Associated Press projected him as the winner of the Democratic nomination….
image….James Estrin/The New York Times
He should of one after the first round…one vote one person, I hope this ranked choice is a one and done experiment.
I agree…..
Why change something that HAS worked for centuries?
won*
You only need to look at a couple of past NYC primaries and runoffs to see why. For example, in 1977, Ed Koch carried exactly zero boroughs but got into the runoff with Mario Cuomo and won. But the 3rd to 5th place Democratic candidates (who did not make the runoff) came extremely close to 2nd place in the original primary:
New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary, September 8, 1977
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ed Koch 180,248 19.81
Democratic Mario Cuomo 170,488 18.74
Democratic Abraham Beame (inc.) 163,610 17.98
Democratic Bella Abzug 150,719 16.56
Democratic Percy Sutton 131,197 14.42
Democratic Herman Badillo 99,808 10.97
Democratic Joel Harnett 13,927 1.53
Abzug carried Manhattan, Badillo the Bronx, Beame Brooklyn and Cuomo Queens & Staten Island. No borough was carried by Ed Koch or Percy Sutton.
Or the 1969 Democratic primary (before primary runoffs), won by the most conservative of all the candidates, Mario Procaccino with only 33% of the vote, just ahead of Robert Wagner at 29% and Herman Badillo with 28% (Norman Mailer and Cong. James Scheuer each won 5%). I.e. for every one Procaccino voter, two Democrats voted for someone more liberal. [Incumbent R-Liberal Mayor John V. Lindsay narrowly lost the GOP primary to the markèdly more conservative John Marchi 107,000 to 113,000, thus setting Lindsay up to win re-election as a Liberal and independent 42.4% to Procaccino’s 35% and Marchi’s 23%.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_mayoral_elections
Although I only followed the NY primary race from afar, I would likely have voted for Eric Adams.
Kathryn Garcia, the former Sanitation commissioner whose problem-solver pitch and widespread appeal launched her to the top of New York City’s crowded Democratic mayoral primary field, conceded on Wednesday morning after narrowly falling to Eric Adams.
“While it is only by a razor-thin margin, Eric Adams will be the winner of the Democratic primary,” Garcia, 51, said at the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park. “I spoke to Eric earlier today and congratulated him.”…
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Has this woman learned nothing from the sterling example of our about-to-be-reinstated ex-President-for-Life?
Never concede, never acknowledge, never surrender and above all never congratulate.
He, he, he….
She could say Yang did so first?
The Big Guy don’t count
He’s in it for the money and crowds….
First of the ‘deep dives’ in the media against Eric Adams….
Gonna be more….
Eric Adams Wears a Gun, Brandishes Dead Rats, and Maybe Lives in Jersey. He Could be NYC’s Next Mayor.
…In a long career, he served as an “escort” to Mike Tyson when the heavyweight finished his rape sentence, despite the prohibition on cops associating with felons. He also fought from within the NYPD to end stop and frisk while steadily ascending to the rank of captain, before leaving to launch a political career where he’s continued to ascend. Here are a few recent examples of what New York would be in store for with Eric Adams—who frequently refers to himself as “Eric Adams,” a habit he says he developed in the course of journaling in the third person over decades—at the helm….
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If anybody cares….
Curtis Sliwa will be one of the guy’s who loses to Eric Adams in the race for NYC Mayor….
Link….
That guy actually is not a Trumpster, and seems to be running on a semi serious platform. One of the very few Republicans I would give a thought to supporting anymore, though I still vastly prefer Adams in that race.
Sliwa was always a Big Apple media character ….
But he DID actually show up every night for a while back in the day