Team Adams likens Council bill to Tamanny redux; critics cry baloney

Top officials in Mayor Adams' administration defended his stance that the City Council should not be granted the power to approve many mayoral appointments, arguing Tuesday that doing so would mark a return to the days of political patronage that defined the Tammany Hall era.

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