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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 28, 2025

Housing is what’s needed, and this this project will rebuild and will bring energy and housing to College Point.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 27, 2025

This is his history, and he’s using the same playbook in my mayoralty.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 27, 2025

Personal strife should not cause you to leave office. During my personal strife, I stepped up. I continued to deliver for the city.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 27, 2025

Listen, he comes from a popular name. His dad was a great governor. His dad stood for three terms and did a great job. In the midst of his obligations to the state, he stepped down.

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Jul 26, 2025

I can absolutely, emphatically say, no, they did not cause problems in the city of Los Angeles.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 25, 2025

ACC’s work to ensure no animal is left behind is essential to protecting animals across New York City, and our administration is proud to invest $1 million in additional funding to support the work ACC does and boost their capacity to…

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 25, 2025

We support the essence of the local laws put in place by the City Council — but I have also been clear that they go too far when it comes to dealing with those violent criminals on our streets and have urged the Council to reexamine them…

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 25, 2025

We are facing an authoritarian administration in Washington, D.C. We are facing a president who is seeking to attack the very fabric of this city.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 25, 2025

This is a fluid conversation. Everything is at stake if we're not successful next year in taking back the House of Representatives.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 24, 2025

The state cell phone ban was the first step in putting our kids back on track to learn and thrive in safe, nurturing environments, and this new cell phone policy is the next step in ensuring students are given the best shot to succeed in…

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Jul 24, 2025

With debris removal months ahead of expectations, construction underway, and new action taken today to further streamline the rebuilding process, we continue to push forward in our all out effort to get families home.

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Jul 24, 2025

While our recovery is on track to be the fastest in modern California history, I know that nothing will erase the unimaginable pain and loss that the Palisades community has endured.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

I think it should be relegated to certain areas that you could smoke marijuana, not throughout the entire street, because you do smell it everywhere.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

The other is running away from his records.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

When I look at the candidates that are in the race, one has no record.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

If he empties out Rikers Island, those dangerous people are going to go back into the communities that they inflicted violence in in the first place, and they’re largely black and brown communities.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

If the cost of running a building is higher than the rent roll of the building, then you’re going to see eventually lack of repairs, lack of quality of life, and again, that is going to hurt low-income New Yorkers.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

But it costs $3 billion and mayors don’t have the ability to raise income taxes.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

I truly believe the worst thing you can do as New Yorkers are struggling is to make broken promises.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

Drones are the future of public safety, and under Deputy Mayor Daughtry’s leadership, New York City’s first-ever Drone Operations Committee will take this technology to the next level.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

This was an unbelievable achievement that the team was able to accomplish, and I really am pleased by the leaders of this administration who did it.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

We have to stop classifying ICE as an illegal operation. They’re not. They are a federal governmental law enforcement entity, and we will coordinate with them when we go after illegal, dangerous people, and we have done that.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

We’re now down to less than 100 migrant asylum seekers coming into our city a week, and that’s due to this securing of the border.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 23, 2025

Governor Hochul and I sat down and spoke with the president and shared with him that his people are not giving him real information, that the flow had to stop and it just never did.

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