Wiley's time as Civilian Complaint Review Board’s chairwoman reveals she’s often taken what some view as a middle path when it comes to hot-button policing issues.
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The whole city will be up for grabs when New Yorkers head to the polls for the mayoral primary this month (yes: it’s this month!), but a few voter-rich areas are hotly sought after by the candidates. Our Sally Goldenberg takes a look this morning
Watching Dianne Morales’ campaign team march to her campaign office on Friday 25 days before the primary and 15 days before the start of early voting to publicly deliver “four core demands” they want satisfied before they’ll resume working for her, I thought about how progressives have formed a circular firing squad in the mayor’s race even as they’re poised to pick up more power down-ballot.
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Rising crime in New York has gripped the mayoral race. Eric Adams says he alone can fix it.
Updated 9:14 AM ET, Sat May 29, 2021
Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks after receiving the endorsement from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) in the Bronx on May 7, 2021 in New York City. (CNN)For the first few months of New York City s Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining issue.
Covid-19 numbers were dropping, Democrats in Washington delivered financial aid to head off a potential budget crisis and, with the outlook generally bright, the candidates plans many of them crafted in painstaking detail blurred together as the contest, which often played out in a long series of interminable Zoom forums, took a backseat to other provincial political dramas.