“Run, Adrienne, run.”
Some New York Democrats are urging Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to toss her hat into the mayoral race as embattled Mayor Eric Adams faces growing requires his resignation — all of the whereas ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo has snagged one other native membership’s endorsement.
Neither the speaker nor the previous governor has introduced a run for mayor, however Dems throughout the town are hoping they are going to add their names to the record of potential contenders towards a second Eric Adams time period.
Adrienne Adams, the town’s first black council speaker, is being eyed as a substitute for the faltering incumbent — who she has no relation to — and a possible block to a Cuomo mayorship, ought to the longtime politician enter the race.
“People are talking about wanting Adrienne Adams to run for mayor,” state Assemblywoman Chantel Jackson (D-Bronx) mentioned.
Jackson mentioned a late entry of the Queens Democrat was mentioned throughout the New York State Affiliation of Black, Puerto Rican Hispanic & Asian Legislators Caucus’ annual occasion in Albany over the weekend.
Adrienne Adams acquired the Shirley Chisholm Award on the caucus’ girls’s empowerment occasion.
She fired up friends along with her acceptance speech, together with state Lawyer Normal Letitia James, who reportedly chanted “Run, Adrienne, run,” in response to an attendee.
The council speaker, who’s finishing her time period this yr and not too long ago known as on the mayor to resign, declined to remark.
However a Democratic donor mentioned, “I have heard she plans to run.”
The Queens councilwoman, nonetheless, took positions which may not endear herself to some mainstream Democrats, together with championing a legislation over the objections of the mayor and the NYPD to require officers to document data on even essentially the most minor interactions with the general public — so-called “level one stops” that might be one thing like talking to a witness at a criminal offense scene.
The Council, with Adrienne Adams main the cost, overrode the mayor’s veto.
She additionally named Brooklyn socialist Democratic Councilwoman Shahana Hanif as a co-chair of a Council job drive to fight hate after Hanif accused Israel of instigating Hamas’ barbaric assaults on the Jewish state, angering Jews.
Different Democrats imagine the scandal-plagued Cuomo can be the perfect substitute for Eric Adams.
The Village Reform Democratic Membership in Greenwich Village preemptively endorsed Cuomo for mayor Tuesday night time regardless of the previous governor not but declaring his candidacy.
Membership president Ray Cline mentioned Cuomo is finest geared up to handle the standard of life crises — together with the protection of the subways, the mentally sick homeless, and open-air drug use — and to face as much as President Trump.
“People living here are fed up with living this way,” Cline mentioned.
“Cuomo is tough enough to deal with President Trump,” he added.
Membership members cited Cuomo’s management throughout COVID, his willingness as governor to deal with massive points, and his anti-fracking stance in New York as constructive qualities resulting in the endorsement, the membership mentioned in an announcement.
Cuomo — who resigned as governor in 2021 following a slew of sexual misconduct accusations which he denied — garnered extra votes than all the different mayoral candidates mixed throughout the membership assembly, Cline mentioned.
The previous Empire State head was additionally endorsed by members of the Staten Island Democratic Occasion final week.
The candidacy plotting comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul met with key Democratic elected officers and civil rights activist Al Sharpton Tuesday to entertain whether or not Eric Adams ought to be faraway from workplace after 4 prime mayoral deputies introduced their resignations.
The departures got here after Trump’s DOJ ordered Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop the federal corruption case towards the mayor, handed down by a federal grand jury final yr.
The prosecutors, led by Performing US Lawyer Danielle Sassoon, refused and resigned en masse, accusing Trump-aligned officers and Eric Adams’ protection attorneys of participating in a “quid pro quo” — allegations each events have denied.
The primary-term mayor mentioned he’s not going wherever and maintains his innocence.
