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Four of New York City’s deputy mayors turned in their resignations Monday to show they can no longer work with Mayor Eric Adams. The growing perception among the mayor’s critics is that the mayor cut a deal with the Department of Justice and border czar Tom Homan in return for having corruption charges against him dropped. In the wake of the resignations, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has called for an emergency meeting with Democratic leaders Tuesday to discuss her options for how to deal with the mess.
Only the governor has the power to remove the mayor from office. One of the few people who can relate to the position Hochul is currently in is former New York Governor David Paterson. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss what course of action Hochul is contemplating.
Paterson told host Larry Mendte that Hochul called the meeting as a way to look like she is on top of the situation. “I think what was happening was these comments that people are making- where’s the governor, the governor’s hiding in Albany, what’s the governor doing- and here is a kind of dramatic way that she invites a number of leaders to come talk to her about the situation, and to also familiarize them with what the process would be if she did want to remove Mayor Adams, so I think she’s done herself a real good deed by having this meeting today.”
Paterson says the lack of a “smoking gun” however gives Hochul the option to do nothing here. “There aren’t pictures of him someplace where he shouldn’t have been or somebody accusing him of domestic violence or something where you have a witness. It’s just their hearsay that Mayor Adams, has, in their eyes, made a deal with the Devil; he is going to work on getting the criminal migrants out of this country and he’s going to help the homeland security czar… and I think that really set a lot of people off, that they don’t want to feel that their mayor has got his hands tied.”
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