Bill DeBlasio is now a private citizen ….
The progressive outgoing New York City Mayor is replaced by past Republican turned Democratic, Black , ex-Cop Mayor Eric Adams….
And things ARE gonna be tough for the new guy….
I wish him well…
Eric Leroy Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City early Saturday in a festive but pared-down Times Square ceremony, a signal of the formidable task before him as he begins his term while coronavirus cases are surging anew.
Mr. Adams, 61, the son of a house cleaner who was a New York City police captain before entering politics, has called himself “the future of the Democratic Party,” and pledged to address longstanding inequities as the city’s “first blue-collar mayor,” while simultaneously embracing the business community.
Yet not since 2002, when Michael R. Bloomberg took office shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, has an incoming mayor confronted such daunting challenges in New York City. Even before the latest Omicron-fueled surge, the city’s economy was still struggling to recover, with its 9.4 percent unemployment rate more than double the national average. Murders, shootings and some other categories of violent crimes rose early in the pandemic and have remained higher than before the virus began to spread.
Mr. Adams ran for mayor on a public safety message, using his working-class and police background to convey empathy for the parts of New York still struggling with the effects of crime….
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Mr. Adams, the second Black mayor in the city’s history, was sworn in using a family Bible, held by his son, Jordan Coleman, and clasping a framed photograph of his mother, Dorothy, who died last spring.
As Mr. Adams left the stage, he proclaimed, “New York is back.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio also attended the Times Square celebration and danced with his wife onstage after leading the midnight countdown — his last official act as mayor after eight years in office.
Mr. Adams, who grew up poor in Queens, represents a center-left brand of Democratic politics. He could offer a blend of the last two mayors — Mr. de Blasio, who was known to quote Karl Marx, and Michael R. Bloomberg, a billionaire and a former Republican like Mr. Adams….
image…Politico
adams became a Democrat over 20 years go. Using your standards you should call me an ex- Republican too.
in my case, I briefly joined the GOP in the 1990s because in my Charlotte district at the time, the only real races were in the GOP primary, so I changed my registration to let me vote for the least offensive candidate in the GOP primary. I was still a Democrat at heart, and typically voted Democratic in the general election.
Adams STILL rolls with his GOP friends and believe me?
THAT IS gonna come back to haunt him if keeps doing this….
Perceptions would be the issue in the media and for some Democrats…
We’ll see…
In my view,when someone announces their party affiliation and WINS an election running under that designation?
They are ipso a member of that party.Their past affiliation may be noted but ,other than as an historical reference , is of no significance and any implication that they are “less “ of a ( blank)because of that past affiliation is a bunch of garbage.
Especially when you never held office under your former party, like Adams, it’s seem silly to refer to them as a “former member” of said party.
He is….
And yea….
A LOT of people fit the bill….
Again…
Who he rolls with and the media narrative will tell the tale
Including you!
I well remember when you appeared on Politics1 back in the day and introduced yourself as “an independent who leans Democratic”
Perhaps we ought to,when addressing you, say”James, a former “independent “ who says he is a Democrat…”
Damn?
I actually typed that?
I used to consider myself an Independent who skewed Conservative. We’ve both moved to the left in our older age.
Ur right Scott
GOPER’s don’t care about Trump being a Democrat a few times back in the day….
While ScottP can speak (or write) for himself, I understand that he once considered himself a Republican or a Republican-leaning independent.
If my memory about the respective candidates serves me correctly, we both reminisced about how we and fellow volunteers for the losing major-party campaign (in my case, Carter-Mondale in 1980; in his, I think, Bush-Quayle in 1992) had wound up an utterly-dispiriting un-victory party to seek solace in the still lively election-watch party of the even-less successful independent candidate (John Anderson or Ross Perot). The independent’s volunteers were much more upbeat since, at least by Election Night, they had had no real expectation of victory and could instead take interest and solace in some of the down-ballot races.
He said he voted Perot in 92 and Ralph Nader in 2000, iirc.
Part of me thinks Adams could be an appealing national candidate.
Then again every person elected mayor of NYC in the past 3 decades has attempted a Presidential run with only a single primary victory–in American Samoa–was to be had from all 3 runs combined.
No mayor of New York has been elected to any other public office since Ardolph Kline (who succeeded to the Mayoralty rather than winning a mayoral election) won a single Congressional term in the Harding landslide of 1920.
No New York mayor has yet been elected President, and I think that no NYC mayor has even won a major party’s presidential nomination. Martin Van Buren, Horatio Seymour and Grover Cleveland were from upstate New York. Al Smith and both Roosevelts had been Governors of New York state, but never Mayor of the City.
The same goes for Tom Dewey (GOP pres. nominee in 1944 & 1948) — Governor of the State but never Mayor of the City.
Ditto for Charles Evans Hughes (GOP pres. nominee in 1916), never Mayor, but once Governor of N.Y. and later Chief Justice of the U.S.
They say it’s the ‘second toughest job in America’….,
The odds are against Adams, eh?
Actually I think serving as Mayor of New York is the best preparation to be President of the United States that I can think of.
Unfortunately, the American people while sort of holding NYC in awe ,seem to also hold an inexplicable grudge against it and the Mayors who have sought the presidency have all been unsuccessful.
Bloomberg ,in my opinion,would have made a good President.
I agree that u earn a Ph.D in politics….
And also agree that other Americans hold it against U……
That said?
Donald Trump was born in Jamaica Hospital a few miles up the road from JFK Airport…..
Grew up in Queens, NYC…..
Maybe people are right on New York political figure’s for President……
Bloomberg would have interesting
Times richer than Trump he was NOT ready for the BIG time……
Even with the pandemic, I’m not sure Bloomberg could have beaten Trump. That crew would have (in a great ironic twist) played up his Epstein ties and would have replayed the clips of Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats eviscerated his record on women’s issues. And that is to say nothing of how many swing voters generally dislike billionaires.
Eviscerating is what I meant to say. Auto correct is a pain.
Although most people respect self-made billionaires es more than people who got their money from daddy or through fraud.
After some research and manipulation, the only New York City mayor I can find who even won just a presidential nomination was DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican), appointed for three disconnected terms from 1803 to 1815.
After the War of 1812 had begun under President James Madison (Democratic-Republican), Clinton ran unsuccessfully against him on a Fusion ticket of what remained of the Federalists with an anti-war faction of the Democratic-Republicans.* While Clinton was chosen by the Electors of most of the anti-war Northeast (N.H., Mass., RI, Conn, NY, N.J. & Del.) he won only 89 Electoral Votes to Madison’s 217.
(However, in the 8 out of 18 states whose voters chose Electors, Clinton did win a very-respectable 48%).
* An interesting counterpoint to 1864, when the PRO-war Democrats joined the Republicans to re-elect Lincoln with Andrew Johnson (War D.) as VP over the Peace Democrats’ George McClellan), who won 45% of the popular vote but only 21 Electors in 3 states to Lincoln’s 212
We have to wait for Adams
To soon
That would be too soon James, but it’s not too soon to refer to him as a Democrat as we should refer to Trump as a Republican.
Because that’s what they are.
Indeed Keith….