the popular bill de blasio. candidates captured 67% of the primary vote. progressives captured 30%. in and this broadly parallels. let s dig a little deeper. the clear leader at this point erik adams is a former police officer and current brooklyn borough president who promised to be tough on crime, rejecting calls to defund the police. and that message resonated because violent crime is on the rise in new york city. get this. last year new york city saw 97% increase in shootings and a 45% rise in murder. and it s continued to spike in 2021. that s much higher than when de blasio took office, though it s well below the city s murder peak in the 1990s under mayor dink ins. that may account for why
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intersect with his clients, his clients business. he bris tled when i raised this with him, these are not the normal conflict of interest rules that apply to people. one thing i d say about rudy giuliani, he s somebody that anybody would agree, that cartoon clip shows it in this way, did great things once in his life, after 9/11 he was the figure who really rallied new yorkers. by the way, his first term as mayor of new york some people want to say that dinkins began that process, but new york said he changed more radically than any city i ve ever seen in my life. it was nothing short of extraordinary. it makes him in some ways a tragic figure. he was a person of distinction and achievement, and look at where he is now. and that s what i found poignant, mika, in writing about him. is it fair to say based on what you ve just reported about rudy s business deals that the
and he was the spokesperson of the mayor, never denounced that. so, the rudy giuliani that people are trying to act like they re shocked at seeing now, that s who he is! whether you agree with him or not, i must say, he s been consistent in terms of those of us that s known him. that s the rudy we marched on. yeah. i mean, i m glad you mentioned mayor dinkins, because in a lot of ways, his takeover of new york city after david dinkins is sort of equivalent to the way that donald trump has been sort of a reaction to president obama. absolutely. david dinkins was elected in 89 talking about the gorgeous mosaic bringing the city together. he was defeated in 93 by rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani, who benefited from a report on the crown heights riots that condemned the dinkins administration in large part, even though it exonerated a lot of the activists that they claim were there, weren t there. but they were very, in my opinion, very unfair in the
reconsider their decision. meanwhile a letter in today s new york times from various new york leaders is calling on amazon to reconsider the decision to walkway. the letter was signed by support of unions, community groups, elected officials, including democratic represent it was hakeem jeffries and carolyn maloney, whose district encompasses the previous amazon site along with former mayor dinkins. and gap is announcing it will become two companies by 2020. it credits the split to a diverd diverging customers base as it draws a line between its specialty brands. it s $8 billion to gap sgroup, $9 b.