Eight top-tier candidates set to participate in their first televised debate Thursday as campaigns ramp up in the race to decide New York City’s next mayor
De Blasio is blowing federal pandemic tax dollars on more spending
May 11, 2021
Communist Mayor de Blasio is spending the federal tax dollars meant to relieve the city from the pandemic on unnecessary and extravagant spending.
De Blasio has new spending of $234 million for a cleanup corps. It will be used on street sweepers which is what the sanitation workers are supposed to do. In addition, $37 million will be used to hire even more government employees.
De Blasio modeled the new City Cleanup Corps after a “New Deal-style” program to put 10,000 New Yorkers to work making the city “cleaner and greener.”
Yang reaps liberal backlash, conservative support from Israel tweet
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NEW YORK Andrew Yang’s pro-Israel tweet Monday night won him the support of Donald Trump Jr. and Sen. Ted Cruz, and the scorn of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez typically not a great turn for a would-be Democratic candidate for mayor.
But Yang’s pro-Israel stance is well within the mainstream of New York Democratic politics in a city that is home to more Jews than almost any other in the world. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are both ardent supporters of Israel.
And Yang who was already being targeted by left-leaning groups for his more moderate political stances was not the only Democratic mayoral candidate to speak in support of Israel amid attacks in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem and air strikes in Gaza in recent days.
Within hours of Saturday’s shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace M
Patrick Buchanan
WASHINGTON Within hours of Saturday’s shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain of the NYPD, and Andrew Yang, who declared:
“My fellow New Yorkers … Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety, we need the police. … My message to the NYPD is this: New York needs you. Your city needs you.
“New York cannot afford to defund the police.”
The rush of Adams and Yang to the scene of the shooting, and the messages they delivered, tells us something about the state of play in politics and not only in the city of New York.