A power struggle between Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council has intensified, with the Council discussing a bill that would significantly expand lawmakers' oversight of mayoral appointees. During a hearing on the matter, no one from the Adams administration testified, and a top aide to Mayor Adams abruptly walked out, illustrating what some council members described as 'contempt for this Council.' Council Member Lincoln Restler highlighted the administration's absence, while former Council Member Adam Clayton Powell IV stated that advice and consent had not caused gridlock or bureaucracy in his experience. The mayor's team later set up an ad-hoc Charter Revision Commission, reflecting the dueling meetings over mayoral picks and city charter changes.
Top Eric Adams aide walks out on City Council, amid power struggle https://t.co/xIHn7oK8qk
A top Eric Adams aide walked out a City Council hearing. half an hour later at a meeting space uptown, the mayor’s team began to set up its own ad-hoc Charter Revision Commission. The scenes from today: https://t.co/bqGRH6VyjZ
At today’s hearing on expanding advice and consent for the Council, @CMRestler asked former Council Member and Assembly Member Adam Clayton Powell IV if he could cite one example of advice and consent causing "gridlock, chaos and bureaucracy" when he was in office. He said no. https://t.co/I6pXiYGeQO
The power struggle between Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council is heating up — with the latter discussing a bill Wednesday that would drastically expand lawmakers’ oversight of mayoral appointees. https://t.co/jSEVGtEbN9
Tensions boiled over as Mayor Adams' adviser abruptly walked out of a NYC Council hearing on mayoral oversight. "This to me illustrates a contempt for this Council." https://t.co/ojJMdzMSyX
Power struggle between Adams, NYC Council heats up with dueling meetings over mayoral picks, city charter changes https://t.co/EdXT4wczog https://t.co/AgooHW11A5
No one from the Adams administration showed up to testify at today's hearing on the Council's bid to require more advice and consent for his commissioners, per @LincolnRestler (more on the issue here: https://t.co/MujFe3tzvT)