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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has taken a soft touch with President-elect Donald Trump, left open the possibility of switching to the Republican Party in a pair of Friday morning interviews.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      The important part is learning a lesson from it.

      If a corrupt candidate is in a Dem primary, they’re like to raise an insane amount of money and be able to beat candidates that are more popular with Dem voters and more likely to win a general.

      And that if we’re going to do public matching, it’s just exacerbates that divide and is the opposite of leveling the playing field.

      Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ victory came with a hefty price tag. Over the course of the campaign, he raised just over $19.1 million, more than half of which was in public matching funds, and spent about $18.1 million, according to the latest financial disclosures. He also benefited from nearly $8.2 million in independent expenditures in his favor, with little outside spending to oppose him.

      https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/10940-eric-adams-18-million-dollar-campaign-spending-2021-election

      Technically he hasnt been convicted over that 2021 election tho , so:

      Allegedly if Adams took bribes, the taxpayer got stuck matching the bribes.

      So say 5 millione was bribes, that’s also 5 million in taxpayer money to further elevate the corrupt candidate

      At this point why not just make primaries “house money”? Give every candidate with X amount of signatures before Y date, $Z amount of money. And that’s all they can spend.

      DNC used to Blacklist anyone that worked to challenge an incumbent, so we can blacklist anyone that works for a PAC that doesn’t stay out of a primary.

      Top to bottom, make it a career ending like they were doing to staffers who worked a campaign against a Dem incumbent.

      Stop acting like each one of these “moderates” are the exception, they just do t always have to face consequences so we never see them sweat.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    22·
    6 days ago

    “I don’t get it. It’s a supposed blue state so I had to be blue to get the rubes to vote for me. Now I’m in trouble anyway so maybe the red rubes can save me so I’m switching. I’m a politician, I don’t understand what the hubub is all about? It’s your fault for not knowing we’re all pieces of shit!”

  • WeUnite@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    He’s like a Trojan Horse. I hope he does switch to the GOP so Democrats can run someone better next time. If he doesn’t switch to the GOP vote for someone else in the primary.

  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
    172·
    6 days ago

    Adams has said he would support any federal plan that focuses on those undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

    So he’s up for doing the same thing everyone everywhere in the US is doing. Immigrants, undocumented or otherwise are routinely deported once convicted of committing serious crimes. This is true even in my home state which is as blue as they come, Massachusetts.

    We don’t do anything if someone’s crime is being here illegally. That’s not a serious crime. Rapists and murderers do not get to stay.

    That being said, the guy seems like a piece of shit who is aiming to get a pardon or have the case dropped against him for other things he’s done, largely stemming from corruption and campaign finance violations. People should be prosecuted for things they do, not because they avoid being critical of the opposition party. He probably should be deposed if any corruption can be proven to be intentional. The guy is pretty obviously trying to be buddy buddy with dumpy for his own gain to save his own skin.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
    10·
    6 days ago

    This guy was corruption personified from the moment it was shown he didn’t actually live in the flat which gave him the address which made it legal for him to run for Mayor, but to have said it then, was racism.