Love him or hate him, Mayor Eric Adams is New York’s City Council firewall.
Over the last three years, his veto threats have prevented some of the body’s most disastrous proposals from seeing the light of day, and forced moderate concessions on several bills that became law.
That could all change after November’s mayoral election.
Absent Adams — or Curtis Sliwa or Andrew Cuomo — in Gracie Mansion, the next City Council stands ready to realize its unchecked radical dreams, if one of the most left-wing legislative bodies in the country gains an ally in a Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
If he ever joins this collectivist keg party brewing at City Hall, Mamdani will egg on the wokesters like an Oneonta pledge master with a beer-bong full of Bolshevism.
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