Adams Endorses Primary Candidates, Hoping to Defeat Left-Wing Democrats

[brooklynite]

New York Times

Most big-city mayors, especially those in the relative infancy of their tenures, typically try to avoid wading into fractious party primaries, mindful that their goal is to build consensus.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City does not subscribe to that theory.

Just seven months into his first term, Mr. Adams, a Democrat, has injected himself into his party’s divide, making endorsements in roughly a dozen state legislative primaries.

Mr. Adams has endorsed incumbents, upstart challengers, and even a minister with a history of making antisemitic and homophobic statements.

Behind all the endorsements lies a common theme: The mayor wants to push Albany and his party away from the left, toward the center.

[elleng]

1. He's quite something, isn't he?

[regnaD kciN]

2. About as something as they get...

…and, if I were to say more, I’d probably get disciplined for “bashing Democrats.” (Incidentally, didn’t he used to be a Republican?)

[elleng]

4. Adams served as an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police

Department for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain. He served in the New York State Senate from 2006 to 2013, representing the 20th Senate district in Brooklyn. In November 2013, Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President. He was reelected in November 2017 and was the first African-American to hold the position. . .

During the 1993 mayoral election, Adams, a supporter of the incumbent candidate for mayor, David Dinkins, made a controversial comment about a candidate for New York State Comptroller, Herman Badillo. Adams said that if Badillo — who was Puerto Rican — were concerned about the Hispanic community, he would have married a Hispanic woman and not a white Jewish woman.[34] These comments became a point of turmoil in the election and caused controversy for Dinkins who ultimately lost the election.[28]

In 1994, Adams ran for Congress against incumbent Major Owens in the Democratic primary for New York's 11th congressional district, condemning Owens for denouncing Louis Farrakhan[1] but failed to receive enough valid signatures to make the ballot.[35] Adams claimed his petition signatures had been stolen by someone on behalf of Owens, but police found no evidence of any such thing.[12][28]

Adams registered as a Republican in 1997, before switching back to the Democratic Party in 2001, according to the Board of Elections.[30][31] Adams has said his switch to the Republican Party was a protest move against what he saw as failed Democratic leadership.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams

[ecstatic]

5. Yikes @1993, especially

The comment he made about Herman Badillo was very ignorant. I can overlook the other events but fast forward to today, he definitely needs a better set of advisors because he shouldn't be making mistakes like that in 2022. He's had nearly 30 years to prepare for the position he's in.

[msongs]

3. police union doh nt

[budkin]

6. He absolutely SUCKS

Period.

[choie]

7. I wonder how many New Yorkers

Give a damn who this ass supports? He’s been crap as mayor.

[ananda]

8. NY sure got a pig in a poke with that one.

I can't stand Adams.

[JI7]

9. Does he have any influence ? I can't see people deciding who to vote for based on what he says

aren't NYC mayors always unpopular ?

[JHB]

10. Just how "left" is Albany that it needs pushing "toward" the center?

A wild guess says "not very" (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Sounds more like an attempt to cut off any move toward New Deal-ish liberalism (which, of course, is characterized as "left", the scary thing outside the "center&quot .