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NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams recordsdata marketing campaign docs in potential run for mayor
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NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams recordsdata marketing campaign docs in potential run for mayor

Last updated: February 27, 2025 3:40 pm
Editorial Board Published February 27, 2025
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Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has taken a primary official step towards a possible run for mayor this yr, submitting paperwork late Wednesday to open a marketing campaign account that permits her to begin fundraising, her workforce confirmed.

However a supply near the speaker — who would face a bevy of logistical challenges in operating towards Mayor Adams in June’s Democratic main — mentioned she has but to make a ultimate resolution on whether or not to formally leap into the crowded race.

That features former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who hasn’t formally introduced a marketing campaign but, however is broadly anticipated to enter the race as early as this weekend after months of preparations as polls challenge he’d be the front-runner.

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Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (Cliff Owen/AP)

“But as more and more serious stakeholders in our city have urged me to consider serving the city in this way, I have given it increasingly serious consideration,” mentioned the speaker, a reasonable Democrat who has helped push by progressive laws, equivalent to a ban on solitary confinement in metropolis jails and elevated transparency necessities for the NYPD.

“There is an opportunity to build a diverse coalition of New Yorkers who want leadership that restores effective management and trust to deliver results that make the city safer, more affordable, and better protected from the chaos of the Trump Administration,” her assertion added.

The speaker’s creation of a mayoral marketing campaign account, first reported by the New York Occasions, comes after she significantly began contemplating a bid simply a few weeks in the past, when State Legal professional Basic Letitia James and different New York politicos started urging her to run throughout a political confab in Albany.

Mayor Eric Adams.Mayor Eric Adams. (Barry Williams / New York Every day Information)

Since then, different power-brokers have been in talks together with her encouraging her to think about a run, together with leaders at DC 37 and 32BJ, two of town’s largest labor unions, each of which endorsed Mayor Adams within the 2021 election and had been seen as key to his win that yr.

Adams is the primary Black lady to function a Council speaker. She would turn out to be the primary lady and the primary Black lady to ever be elected mayor, giving her potential marketing campaign a historic air.

In current months, she has been more and more outspoken towards the embattled mayor, together with popping out final week to name on him to resign over considerations that he’s a “hostage” to President Trump’s agenda.

Like many different high-profile elected leaders within the metropolis, the speaker got here to that conclusion after Trump’s Division of Justice filed a movement looking for to dismiss the mayor’s federal corruption indictment with the understanding that it might come again as early as November.

Within the interim, Trump’s DOJ spelled out within the movement — which is pending approval from a federal choose — that it expects quashing the mayor’s indictment will allow him to assist the president goal undocumented New Yorkers for “mass deportations.” The mayor has mentioned there is no such thing as a quid professional quo.

There are a variety of significant complications on the horizon for the speaker ought to she determine to run for mayor.

Whereas she’s recognized internally the Council as an deliberative chief, she has little name-recognition on a citywide stage.

On the identical time, she has simply over $211,000 in her previous Council marketing campaign coffers, and it’s unclear if she will be able to even pump all of that into her mayoral account as a result of restrictions on such transfers. Petitioning — the resource-intensive technique of gathering signatures from hundreds of registered metropolis voters with the intention to get your title on the first poll — began Tuesday and runs by April 3.

Meantime, the greater than a half dozen candidates already difficult Mayor Adams have spent months fundraising and racking up endorsements for his or her candidacies, which means the speaker would have plenty of floor to compensate for in a brief time period.

Cuomo’s possible entry can also be anticipated to shake up your complete dynamic of the race, provided that he’s anticipated to be the front-runner.

Spokespeople for Mayor Adams and Cuomo didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon the speaker’s transfer.

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