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July 25, 2022
voters would not be open to voting for him. That and other polls also had de Blasio near the bottom of the pack of candidates, trailing far behind the likes of Council Member Carlina Rivera and Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou. But now, he might be able to use the campaign cash he’s raised to help pay off some of his past debts and legal bills.
“As Jay-Z said, ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped out of the race for the 10th Congressional District, saying that his time in electoral politics was at an end.
BYE BYE BILL
The race for the 10th Congressional District in New York City just got a little bit smaller with the exit of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. In a video posted to Twitter, de Blasio said that he decided to suspend his
bid for Congress – and exit electoral politics altogether. After a failed presidential campaign and a run for governor that never even got off the ground, de Blasio seemed to come to the conclusion that his time in the sun had ended. He won races for the New York City Council, public
– New York City Mayor Eric Adams, misattributing that lyric to Jay-Z when it had previously been sung by Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra and others
advocate and mayor in the past, but since leading the Big Apple, de Blasio’s popularity plummeted, and his attempts at running for other offices suffered. Shortly before he announced he was dropping out of the 10th District race, a poll found that half of undecided
NO SMALL FEAT Forming the first union of Amazon warehouse workers in the United States was just the beginning of Chris Smalls’ journey. The Amazon Labor Union founder and president hopes to unionze every Amazon warehouse in the country. But Smalls still has his work cut out for him on Staten Island, where Amazon is challenging the results of JFK8’s historic election and is certain to do everything it can to impede the union’s progress on reaching a contract.
“I just think his judgment from Election Day to Jan. 6 was – I just think he lost his mind. I really do. I just do.” – retiring Rep. Chris Jacobs, on former President Donald Trump, via The Buffalo News
MONKEYPOX ON THE RISE IN NYC
Not content with just one infectious disease spreading in the five boroughs, the number of monkeypox cases in New York City have been increasing. Rates doubled over the course of less than a week, and the state leads the nation in the number of cases. After red tape at the federal level led to delays in getting vaccines to the state, the city announced that it received 26,000 doses in the past week with the newly available appointments getting snapped up very quickly. The city and state are set to receive nearly 760,000 more vaccine doses that had been held up in Denmark until recently.
LEE ZELDIN ATTACKED
A man attacked Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, during a campaign event in Rochester Thursday evening. The man approached Zeldin on stage with a pointed weapon and brought him to the ground before
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