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Presented by CVS Health You get a PAC, and you get a PAC, and you get a PAC! In the latest infusion of big money into the mayor’s race, an executive at an organization that lobbies on behalf of charter schools is launching a fundraising effort to boost the mayoral candidacy of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, is taking a leave of absence to run the new PAC, dubbed Strong Leadership NYC, our Sally Goldenberg reports. The group plans t...

POLITICO Sign up for POLITICO Playbook today. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Ron DeSantis is looking ahead to reelection next year and quite possibly a 2024 bid for president — but he’s left behind a ...

NYC Teachers Union Sticks by Stringer, Calls Treatment Wrong Bloomberg 1 day ago Henry Goldman © Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America Protestors In NYC Hold Rally Against Illegal Guns And Gun Violence (Bloomberg) -- The decision by New York City’s largest teachers union to stand by mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer as he fights a sexual-misconduct allegation has implications beyond the race to elect the next mayor of the most populous U.S. city. Its action ...

The mystery of Biden family friend Father Kevin OBrien Father Kevin OBrien, who said Mass for the Biden family on inauguration day, has been "accused of ... something." May 07, 2021 October 17, 2014: Father Kevin OBrien speaks on stage at the 2014 Audi Best Buddies Challenge VIP Reception at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Getty Images Facebook Comments It might seem as if we can’t get enough of men in the public eye behaving badly. Most recently, there were the bizarre accu...

SHARE: Support in the Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities was Eric Adams’ to lose. Here was a candidate for New York City mayor that had existing relationships – representing a large Hasidic community in Crown Heights for seven years in the state Senate and representing all of Brooklyn as borough president for another seven. And Adams’ generally moderate political stances were broadly in sync with the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox voters who are among the most conservative members of th...

It’s election season again in the United States – or, at least, it is in the country’s largest city. The New York City mayoral election is not until November, but the Democratic primaries are next month, and the winner will likely go on to become mayor. New York has had Republican mayors in the recent past – among them Rudy Giuliani, who went on to be Donald Trump’s attorney. Giuliani, who led the city from 1994 to 2001, was reviled by black and Hispanic New Yorkers but was hailed ...

arrow Jean Kim and her attorney Patricia Pastor. April 28, 2021. Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock In 2014, Tony Caifano and his girlfriend Jean Kim found themselves huddled in freezing temperatures watching the inauguration of Bill de Blasio. Both were steeped in New York City’s political world: She was a well-known lobbyist, he served as the political action director for a printers union. As they sat on steel folding chairs, Caifano could feel his toes becoming numb. But it was im...

‘I believe women’: Top Stonewall Democrats exec quits after group sticks with Scott Stringer endorsement Dave Goldiner A top Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC official announced his resignation Thursday in protest over the group’s decision to continue endorsing embattled mayoral candidate Scott Stringer. Executive vice president Brian Romero quit hours after the landmark LGBTQ group declared that their endorsement of Stringer would remain because not enough of their members...

NYCStock/Shutterstock THE CITY is co-hosting the first Democratic mayoral primary debate of the 2021 elections on Thursday, May 13, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The debate is organized in partnership with the Campaign Finance Board (CFB), Spectrum News NY1, WNYC-Gothamist, Citizens Union, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Social Work Votes (Columbia School of Social Work & Latino Leadership Institute). Candidates participating include: Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Ray McGuire, ...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by CVS Health Andrew Yang has led every public poll in the mayor’s race — until now. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has...