Somewhere Andrew Cuomo is smiling….
And?
Zohran Mamdani should be a little worried…..
A weaker Adams helps Cuomo into a direct race with Mamdani where they are essentially tied in polling…..
The New York City Campaign Finance Board denied Mayor Eric Adams millions of dollars in matching funds for the tenth time Wednesday — and suggested in a strongly worded statement that Adams will not be getting a penny anytime soon.
The regulatory body denied Adams the public funding he’s seeking for his general election bid on two grounds: His campaign has not submitted required paperwork, and the board has reason to believe the campaign violated the law…
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The board’s decision escalates a long-simmering standoff with the incumbent and hobbles Adams’ ability to compete at a time when he is already at a severe disadvantage. The mayor dropped out of the Democratic primary after the controversial dismissal of a federal bribery case against him. He is now running in the crowded general election as an independent.
Fellow independents Andrew Cuomo and Jim Walden are hoping to take down the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who has solidly staked out the left lane in the general election. So is GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.
Cuomo’s base overlaps with Adams’, as does Sliwa’s, although to a lesser degree. Should the multimillion-dollar hole in his war chest persist, the mayor will be forced to continue the time-consuming process of fundraising long after his opponents, placing yet another obstacle in the way of his longshot comeback bid.
Adams’ campaign did not immediately comment on the board’s latest decision.
The CFB has regularly denied Adams matching funds since December 2024, in part because of allegations of a straw donor scheme laid out in a federal bribery indictment against him. That case was dismissed this spring at the behest of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice….
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Cuomo, who has been polling in second place behind Mamdani, was not awarded any matching funds for the second time since the June 24 primary. His team said the former governor did not apply for a payout, but that fundraising is picking back up and that Cuomo will be ready for the next opportunity later this month….
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