Brigid Bergin
Reporter Politics at Gothamist
Senior Politics Reporter and Fill-in Host at NY Public Radio
Sr. politics reporter & host for @wnyc @gothamist covering power, institutions and democracy. I like to talk and ❤️ to listen. Tips: DM or bbergin@wnyc-dot-org
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brigid Bergin
TD Bank closed Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign account within a week of his federal indictment, according to newly released records that detail his campaign’s ongoing struggles with financial record-keeping. The records, which Gothamist obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request, reveal previously unreported issues with the campaign’s fundraising.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brigid Bergin
New York City comptroller candidate Justin Brannan has a plan to reinvest a $500 million piece of the city's multibillion-dollar pension funds — and use it to pay for universal child care. Brannan does not claim his plan would achieve this increasingly popular policy goal on its own. But similar to how the city comptroller’s office has been used to increase investment in affordable housing, Brannan said he would use the office to expand and support the city’s child care infrastructure.
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4 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brigid Bergin
New York City’s two leading Democratic mayoral candidates took home very different hauls from the New York City Campaign Finance Board on Tuesday. Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani of Queens received nearly $4 million in public matching funds, the largest single payment to any candidate in the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary race to date. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo received nothing.
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1 month ago |
gothamist.com | Brigid Bergin
A good-government group is pitching a proposal following the corruption scandal that engulfed Mayor Eric Adams: Let voters participate in a special election to remove a future mayor from office. The 125-year-old organization Citizens Union plans to present a proposal at a meeting of the Adams administration’s Charter Revision Commission on Wednesday that would create a new procedure to remove a mayor for misconduct.
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1 month ago |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Brigid Bergin
LEILA FADEL, HOST:Some breaking news out of New York City this morning. The federal corruption and bribery case against Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has officially been dismissed. Federal judge Dale Ho signed off on the dismissal nearly two months after officials from President Trump's Justice Department demanded the case be dropped. Their request generated a public outcry and spurred a mass resignation of senior federal prosecutors.
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