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New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson speaks during a June 2020 press conference in Foley Square. | Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images
Johnson marks his return to the political arena, shaking up comptroller’s race
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Council Speaker Corey Johnson officially announced his run for city comptroller Tuesday after weeks of dropping hints, assembling a campaign team and signing up for a candidate forum before he’d formally declared.
His entry upends the dynamics of the contest and marks Johnson’s return to the political arena after dropping out of the mayoral primary in September and largely retreating from the public eye for six months.
Will Corey break the speaker curse?
One might say that Corey Johnson already fell victim to the City Council speaker curse. After all, his run for mayor ended before it began, when he closed his fledgling campaign in September and became the latest speaker to unsuccessfully seek higher office after leading the city’s legislative body. Three of the four speakers before him ran for mayor and lost in the Democratic primary. The other, Melissa Mark-Viverito, ran for both public advocate, then Congress, and lost in both primaries.
Now six months after opting out of the 2021 elections, Johnson is opting back in. He officially kicked off his campaign for New York City comptroller Tuesday with a press conference in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. And with that, he’ll get a second shot at becoming the first speaker in the modern era to extend his life in electoral politics.
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March 1, 2021
New York, NY – City Council s Small Business Committee is holding a hearing today at 1 p.m. on two bills providing civil penalty relief for small businesses, who for too long have been subjected to onerous fines from New York City. After conducting a year-long review of the extensive network of rules and regulations that apply to the City s small businesses, the Council drafted legislation to permanently update more than 180 laws and to provide immediate relief to businesses by refunding unnecessary fines.
Subscribe Small businesses have waited years for meaningful relief from fines. I m proud that the Council took the lead in doing a truly comprehensive look at our laws to see how we can help. This has been a problem for decades, but there s a renewed urgency now because of the pandemic. These businesses are suffering, and it s on us to do everything we can,
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