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“New Yorkers will be sick of me”
After getting slammed for fleeing the city for his country home in New Paltzduring the pandemic, Andrew Yang warned New Yorkers that they would see him in the city around the clock – at least during his first term – if he’s elected mayor. Yang vowed during a debate Thursday night that he wouldn’t rely on a taxpayer-funded security detail to drive him and his family upstate. In fact, he said New Yorkers would be seeing him so much they might get sick of him. “I don’t expect to leave the city a single day for my first term. I’m going to be here grinding it out because that’s what our city requires right now,” he said. “Grinding” is an Eric Adams catchphrase at this point, and the subtext was clear, when Adams had just released E-ZPass records showing government cars had driven him to New Jersey six times in the past year – presumably to a second home he owns there with his partner. But Yang was also drawing a contrast
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“New Yorkers are not clamoring to have him step down at this stage, but they are signaling a willingness to show him to the exit door once his term is done," said a Quinnipiac University polling analyst.
With Cuomo’s star dimming in wake of twin scandals, N.Y. political hopefuls step into the limelight
There’s blood in New York’s political water and the legislative sharks are circling.
The governor is wounded. Pundits can debate over whether the damage is self-inflicted or if the state’s once-invincible leader is the target of his rivals’ slings and arrows. It could be both, some say.
But there is agreement on this: If ever there was a time for anyone not named Andrew Cuomo to mount a serious gubernatorial campaign, this is it.
Gone are the height-of-the-pandemic days when Cuomo, a Democrat, could stroll up to a microphone, sit behind a briefing room desk, talk about love and heartache and be showered with endless praise.