{"id":296655,"date":"2021-07-12T03:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/good-on-adams-for-taking-on-a-wounded-cuomo\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T03:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:07:30","slug":"good-on-adams-for-taking-on-a-wounded-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/good-on-adams-for-taking-on-a-wounded-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"#Good on Adams for taking on a wounded Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Good on Adams for taking on a wounded Cuomo<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Barely hours after his victory in the Democratic mayoral primary, Eric \u00adAdams did something that might seem unwise: go hard after Gov. Cuomo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio has battled Cuomo for more than seven years, and almost always lost. But Cuomo is weaker than he\u2019s ever been \u2014 and Adams can take advantage of his own goodwill with the public and with lawmakers to gain the upper hand early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, Adams had an aggressive response to Cuomo\u2019s $138.7 million \u201coffice of gun violence prevention.\u201d In response to Cuo\u00admo\u2019s threat \u2014 er, pledge to \u201cdo with gun violence what we just did with COVID,\u201d Adams snarked: \u201cwhat took so long .\u2009.\u2009. watching these babies die, year after year after year? .\u2009.\u2009. No one seems to care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Adams half-walked back these comments, but in a casual way \u2014 showing it\u2019ll be his choice whether to bestow criticism or kindness.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Next, Adams hit the MTA \u2014 read Cuomo \u2014 hard on Thursday afternoon\u2019s torrential subway flooding. \u201cThis is what happ<\/a>ens when the MTA makes bad spending decisions for decades,\u201d he tweeted, wondering why it\u2019s taking so long for the state to implement congestion pricing. \u201cThis cannot be New York.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adams isn\u2019t a native tweeter \u2014 and he had plenty of time to prepare an answer to the gun question. Neither of these remarks was off the cuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s doing?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adams is well aware: New York can only have one powerful, prominent elected Democrat. Cuomo demonstrated this nearly eight years ago, when he crushed de Blasio\u2019s plan to raise taxes on the rich, a key campaign plank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even when de Blasio was right about things \u2014 it was the mayor, not the governor, who correctly raised concerns about bail \u201creform\u201d two years ago \u2014 Cuomo easily won.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Having just slayed the progressives in a citywide election, Adams can be that powerful, prominent Democrat. His win proved that people want crime to go down, and that white urban \u201cdefund\u201d proponents don\u2019t matter citywide at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cuomo knows that Adams is a threat, and his natural instinct is to do everything he can to quash Adams \u2014 not despite his weakened state, facing multiple investigations into sexual harassment, self-enrichment, and poor COVID governance, but because of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adams is right, then, to stay on the very public offense \u2014 playing nice won\u2019t get him far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaking at a press conference after signing two new gun laws on July 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He\u2019s right, too, on the merits. He\u2019s going to have to start making the point \u2014 over and over \u2014 that Cuomo\u2019s bail \u201creform\u201d still needs reform, as does state supervision of parolees. He can direct his Police Department to compile regular, credible statistics on those fronts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the MTA, too, Adams has a strong position. Cuomo badly mishandled his attempt to oust current MTA Chairman Pat Foye and split the chairmanship in two, leaving the authority leaderless at the end of this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The governor can appoint an interim chairman \u2014 but by early next year, he\u2019ll need Senate confirmation of a permanent chief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Blasio never seemed to understand Albany \u2014 but Adams, a former state senator who is good at the legislative machine, can make sure the city gets a real voice in who that chairperson is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among other things, New York City needs firm deadlines on congestion pricing, rather than leaving it as a Cuomo whim. The city also needs reform of the congestion-pricing law itself, to give Gotham a say in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As written, Cuomo\u2019s congestion-pricing law gives the MTA \u2014 that is, the governor \u2014 near-full control over New York City\u2019s streets, with no money to go back to those streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adams was also smart in crafting his smaller-scale priorities. He wants the state to enact a bigger earned-income tax credit, a cash rebate to poorer workers. Expanding this tax policy is far more constructive than never-ending attempts to hike taxes on the wealthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(He also wants the City Council to freeze the commercial-rent tax for two years, helping Manhattan businesses \u2014 a good attempt to keep the council from straying too far left.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

In nearly 12 years in office, Cuomo has been the master of political attention, with his quirky slide shows, riffs with his brother and (odd) opinions of his daughter\u2019s beaus. But the act has worn thin. Adams, too, is good at getting attention \u2014 getting his ear pierced to keep a campaign promise is just the latest example.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He can use that attention to do some good \u2014 before his honeymoon wears off, as Cuomo\u2019s did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n

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