Amid sinking poll numbers, an overwhelming majority believe Eric Adams’ campaign committed wrongdoings in dealing with Turkey.
“I know you don’t like to admit it,” New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters last month. “But I know you get on your knees and pray every night, ‘Thank God Eric is the mayor of our city.'”
Chuckling with smug self-satisfaction, Adams delivered these remarks roughly two weeks before federal authorities raided the home of his chief fundraiser in an explosive investigation into whether his mayoral campaign accepted illegal donations from Turkey. The probe—which has since expanded to include the seizure of Adams’ personal phones—and mounting reports revealing Adams’ intensive ties and travel to Turkey, comes as the mayor proposes billions in cuts to city programs. Those cuts include slashing the NYPD, food and housing services, the sanitation department, library hours, and a litany of major cultural institutions.
It’s against this gloomy backdrop that Adams’ standing with New Yorkers—or from his perspective, the supplicants who thank God every day for delivering him to Gracie Mansion—has nose-dived, according to a new Marist poll. With only 37 percent approving of his job performance, a staggering 72 percent of those polled believe Adams’ mayoral campaign is guilty of wrongdoing in its dealings with Turkey; New Yorkers appear split on whether such malfeasance was illegal or merely unethical.
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I never wanted a cop for a mayor. I don’t know why he won the primary.
In places where a D is likely to win, the wealthy pick the most conservative D candidate and give them money, it doesn’t even have to be a lot. Because it’s hard for most people to raise funds for primaries
If their D pick wins, then the wealthy literally can’t lose no matter what happens in the general.
The Democratic party plays along, because the unelected people running that private organization like money and now that come election time, the shittiest Dem in those races can still beat the worst R 90% of the time.
In the rare cases they don’t, the Dem party doubles down, blames progressives, and runs someone even more conservative next time.
They know voters don’t really have a choice.
Shenanigans. No one I know wanted him but after the primary, we had no choice.
He needs to go ASAP but we also need to dismantle the system that forced him on us.
Fucking same, and I don’t even live there anymore. Fuck the NYPD.
New Yorkers have never liked a mayor. This goes for Giuliani pre 9/11. NY as a whole is a contentious battle ground that leaves everyone pissed off at each other.
Yeah but Giuliani was a particularly bright dumpster fire in how negatively he changed new York city.
Who the fuck sues an art museum for deciding to present a picture of the virgin Mary decorated by elephant dung? Not my taste, but mind your own fucking business! And then subsequently loses the case, wasting tremendous tax money hahaha.
Giuliani: what a self-fellating waste, pre and post 9/11.
