The six – and counting – members of the Socialists in Office bloc meet weekly with DSA leaders and activists to discuss politics and figure out how Alba.
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Stop and frisk hasn’t disappeared
Bill de Blasio’s vocal criticism of the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped vault him to victory in 2013. In a city of a million issues, it became
the issue. Now Maya Wiley – de Blasio’s former counsel, who has many of his allies on her team – is hoping to make it an issue again, twice targeting Eric Adams for defending the tactic in the first official Democratic primary mayoral debate Thursday night. Adams, a retired cop, called stop and frisk “a great tool” in an interview with CBS New York last year and said that the police force under Bloomberg was simply using it wrong. Adams has been saying the same thing for a decade – while also loudly, proudly, criticizing the racist
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The Assembly finished passing the state budget last night, but not without a little last-minute drama, as a handful of Democratic Socialist lawmakers changed their votes on the “Big Ugly” revenue bill from no to yes. It’s common for new, insurgent progressives who campaigned on big ideas to accept compromise once they’re faced with Albany realities. But the final twist in budget season also showcased internal Democratic turmoil that recently has boiled over into public view.
Earlier in the day, Assembly Members Marcela Mitaynes and Phara Souffrant Forrest – both freshmen from Brooklyn who toppled Democratic incumbents with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America – expressed their intention to vote “no” on the revenue bill. For Mitaynes, her vote was over the excluded workers fund included in the legislation that will provide aid to undocumented workers who have not been eligible for unemployment or federal relief throughout the pandemic. Mitaynes