Rachel Holliday Smith
Associate Editor at THE CITY
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3 weeks ago |
thecity.nyc | Rachel Holliday Smith
This article is adapted from our April 3 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers,Whew, we’re off to the races now!In case you hadn’t heard: Mayor Eric Adams will not run as a Democrat this year, opting to skip the June primary altogether and run as an independent candidate in November. He dropped that news this morning — less than 24 hours after his federal corruption charges dropped. It’s big news in the local political world.
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1 month ago |
thecity.nyc | Greg Smith |Rachel Holliday Smith
Up until Feb. 10, Mayor Eric Adams was running for re-election while preparing for a federal corruption trial set to begin in April. All that changed when Emil Bove, acting Deputy Attorney General in the Trump Justice Department, ordered Manhattan federal prosecutors to dismiss all the pending charges against Adams.
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2 months ago |
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn |Rachel Holliday Smith
Since President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made the highly unusual move to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption charges, calls for Adams’ resignation are mounting. For months, Adams has adamantly denied that he will ever step down, including in the days after the DOJ’s edict. But the decision isn’t completely up to him. The governor or a special city committee could remove him.
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2 months ago |
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn |Rachel Holliday Smith
While Mayor Eric Adams may escape prosecution on federal corruption charges amid a shocking turn by the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, the move has thrown fuel on the political fire around him. An avalanche of criticism followed the highly unusual move by the DOJ, including the resignation of six prosecutors in protest and a flood of calls for Adams to resign from local elected officials.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
thecity.nyc | Rachel Holliday Smith
Local leadership is on the ballot in 2025, from City Hall down to your neighborhood Councilmember. And it’s set to be a doozy, even by the raucous standards of New York politics. Mayor Eric Adams is seeking reelection while under indictment on federal corruption charges, with a trial set to begin just eight weeks before Primary Day. Meanwhile, a crowd of at least six fellow Democrats have swung into gear to challenge him, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so as of early 2025.
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