{"id":271158,"date":"2021-06-10T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-firefighters-union-to-endorse-andrew-yang\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:06:29","slug":"nyc-firefighters-union-to-endorse-andrew-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-firefighters-union-to-endorse-andrew-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC firefighters union to endorse Andrew Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC firefighters union to endorse Andrew Yang<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The firefighters union will endorse Andrew Yang for New York City mayor Thursday in Queens, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in him. I believe that this city needs a fresh face in politics,\u201d said Andy Asbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just amazed that the politicians we have at hand always promise to increase the resources of the department but continually not deliver,\u201d Asbro said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow long can we talk about new firehouses in Hudson Yards, Long Island City or any other area that\u2019s been built up without actually doing it?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Asbro\u2019s powerful union counts 20,000 active and retired members. Yang\u2019s only other union endorsement comes from the Freelancers Union.<\/p>\n

Yang, 46, a former entrepreneur, made his first foray into politics during the Democratic presidential primary last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe someone unhindered by New York City politics without the attachments and obligations can really make a difference,\u201d Asbro said.<\/p>\n

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Uniformed Firefighters Association president Andy Asbro said he believes in Andrew Yang.<\/figcaption>
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He declined to discuss why the union snubbed front-runner Eric Adams, who may have seemed like a natural fit as a former NYPD captain. <\/p>\n

Yang ranked third in the most recent poll by PIX 11, after Adams and Maya Wiley, the former chief counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

The firefighters\u2019 backing will be only the second union endorsement for Yang, who along with Wiley was co-endorsed by the Freelancers Union in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so grateful for our firefighters,\u201d Yang told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike so many others, I remember scrambling out of my office building on 9\/11. And it was our firefighters who ran in the other direction. <\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Hurricane Sandy, my wife was delivering our first son at a hospital in Midtown as the lights flickered. All the while \u2014 our firefighters were out in the streets, rescuing the most vulnerable and helping our city again recover. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s the kind of bravery we need to break the status quo to build a comeback worthy of New York. Time and again we\u2019ve seen our firefighters lead the way for us, and I\u2019m so honored to have them at my side and when I\u2019m in City Hall we\u2019re going to do everything we can to have their backs,\u201d Yang said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#NYC firefighters union to endorse Andrew Yang” The firefighters union will endorse Andrew Yang for New York City mayor Thursday in Queens, The Post has learned. \u201cI believe in him. I believe that this city needs a fresh face in politics,\u201d said Andy Asbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. \u201cI\u2019m just amazed that the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/andrew-yang-endorsement-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[108888,79087,61184,108149],"class_list":["post-271158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-10-21","tag-andrew-yang","tag-fdny","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}