More and more people from the New York political world are publicly calling for the mayor to step down or be removed.
• New York City public advocate Jumaane Williams, who would take over as mayor if Adams resigns or is removed, said Friday that he hoped Adams would resign, noting that “he cannot be the mayor of this city and govern this city the way it needs to be governed.”
• Queens state senator John Liu called on Governor Hochul to “come to the defense of your constituents” and remove Adams if he doesn’t resign.
• “Mayor Adams has put this city and all of our people in jeopardy to save himself,” Brooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso also said Friday. “Governor Hochul must end this chaos and remove Eric Adams — now.”
• On Thursday, Representative Nydia Velazquez called Sassoon’s claims “damning” and added that “NYC can’t be led by someone under Trump’s thumb and willing to sell out New Yorkers. Mayor Adams must resign.”
• Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoed those words in her own post, writing, “Trump wields this leverage over Adams, the city is endangered. We cannot be governed under coercion. If Adams won’t resign, he must be removed.”
• Mike Gianaris, the deputy leader of the State Senate, also called out the mayor on social media, saying that if Adams himself doesn’t step down, Hochul should take steps to remove him:
• Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado has also been emphatic that Adams’s tenure must come to an end:
Hochul herself has called the allegations against Adams “extremely concerning and serious,” but stopped short of calling for the mayor to step down. The governor, however, did not explicitly rule out using her office’s obscure power to unilaterally remove Adams as mayor.
