Zach Williams
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This FDNY truck has joined the protesters at Nostrand and St Johns in Brooklyn
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“I defend Dr Oz bc he is a longtime New Jerseyan — the problem is he’s running in Pennsylvania” - former NJ Gov Chris Christie at NYS Business Council.
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The moment NYPD struck against peaceful protesters in downtown Brooklyn
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BREAKING: The NYS Senate has just PASSED a repeal of 50a . This allows for the public disclosure of NYPD disciplinary records after recent protests created an opportunity to pass the bill after years of effort. Gov. Cuomo has said he will sign the bill.
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Cops hit a man with batons and shove a reporter after arrests on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. Wild
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NEW: NYS Senate has VOTED DOWN Hector LaSalle nomination to be chief judge of NYS Court of Appeals. Yes: 2.No: 10.Without Recommendation: 7.
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WOW this Union guy is PO’d about Hector LaSalle nomination — and Hochul for making it so soon after wanting Union help to beat Zeldin. “30 pieces of silver”
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WOW. Senate Judiciary Chair Brad Hoylman says ALL judges who run on Conservative Party line will be unacceptable 4 future confirmations. "We will not accept the nomination of judges who run on that line". Almost ALL judges run on Dem/GOP/WFP/Conservative lines (like LaSalle).
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Here are all the protesters marching past curfew in downtown Brooklyn
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"We have a former president of the United States who on national television last night, said I declassified the documents, thinking about it," Chris Christie says about Donald Trump at Biz Council mtg. "I just had to think about it. This is a credible candidate for 2024," he adds.
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NEW: Cuomo says indoor dining *might* happen *if* NYC allocates a certain number of NYPD police to a taskforce to enforce social distancing. "Put together a task force of NYPD Speaker Johnson and say they're going to be 4k police who are going to be doing restaurant compliance".
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BREAKING during state budget negotiations. I have just accepted a new job as the new state Capitol reporter at the New York Post.
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Lots of Pataki ‘94 signs in crowd at GOP rally in Westchester
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Another event where Gov. Andrew Cuomo surrounds himself with praise from local community leaders without worrying about any pesky reporters asking him about his COVID response or ongoing scandals.
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"Hochul has said London only charged £5 when it launched its own congestion pricing tolls in 2003. But converted into dollars and adjusted for inflation, that price comes out to just over $14 in 2024 dollars.".
From @s_nessen:.
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"I put my head on the pillow at night saying I saved lives." - Gov Andrew Cuomo.
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Team Cuomo handpicks the reporters at his "press conferences" . none of them today were from the Albany press corps and 0 questions were about the litany of ongoing scandals facing Cuomo, who is seemingly doing everything he can to avoid tough questions on these matters.
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"IMAGINE all I could have accomplished if I had known that," Chris Christie says while mocking Trump claims about declassifying docs mentally.
"We have a former president of the United States who on national television last night, said I declassified the documents, thinking about it," Chris Christie says about Donald Trump at Biz Council mtg. "I just had to think about it. This is a credible candidate for 2024," he adds.
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'Why don't we take steps now to address the issue of congestion?" . Gov Kathy Hochul (without irony) at Albany press conference.
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The Eric Adams-backed challenger to democratic socialist Jabari Brisport is getting creamed by 50+ in Brooklyn – and might even come in THIRD
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Stand-off forming outside Hochul’s state Capitol office as tax-the-rich activists get ready to get arrested for staying after hours . … but this time progressive legislators are forming a wall in between activists and state troopers
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Another broken curfew in Brooklyn as protesters rally past 8pm at Barclays Center
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NEW: Today is my last day at the NY Post . I won't be going far – starting as the NYS Capitol reporter for Bloomberg on 7/17.
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Zeldin says Earth is indeed round when challenged at campaign stop in North Country
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NEW: Hochul leading Zeldin by just SIX points– 47% to 41% – in new SurveyUSA poll. Zeldin w/31% support in NYC. That's 18-POINT swing since late Aug poll from same pollster . .
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Crowd at GOP rally w/ Youngkin + Zeldin in Westchester . If guesstimate ~500 ppl
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“Thee governor is pointing an unloaded gun at us and asking to give her the ammunition to shoot us and our constituents.@. @JuliaCarmel__ in statement read at protest against Hochul’s efforts to get lawmakers to approve this vague IOU to find MTA instead of congestion pricing.
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BIG night for WFP, DSA and lefty state Senate Dems in general against Eric Adams & Co
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Pro-Palestinian protester interrupting Jewish Shabbat event at Somos NY Democratic conference in San Juan
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One last whoop for the road as Brooklyn march concludes at Barclays Center
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Dem operative on Hochul:. "Her campaign seems like a hot mess on the best of days".
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Hochul talking about Empire AI in California. "We have, you know, young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is".
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I’m hearing there might not be the votes within Democratic Senate majority to pass the congestion pricing IOU thing.
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WOW. A new Quinnipiac Poll finds @leezeldin way over a key 30% threshold in NYC – widely seen as key to a GOP candidate winning statewide in supposedly super blue NYC .
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Will Suozzi be a “partner” in power for Gov Hochul . “He won’t be in office,” Gov Hochul tells reporters.
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"Manhattan and the Hamptons are the leading areas in the state with violations," Cuomo says of people gathering and drinking and public. So we know who to blame if to-go drinks do not become a permanent thing in the post-pandemic world . .
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BREAKING: State Senate GOP suing Democrats including Andrea Stewart-Cousins to force floor vote on LaSalle. Story imminent.
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"Everyone in the Hudson Valley still calls the bridge the Tappan Zee for a reason"
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Hochul calls it quits with LaSalle. "Now that the full Senate has taken a vote, I will work toward making a new nomination."
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Democratic socialist Kristen Gonzalez has a big lead over former City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley in early results for open Dem primary for NYS Senate. 30% reporting
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It is 12:40pm and still no word on whether Gov. Cuomo will hold his regularly scheduled COVID-19 briefing today. He skipped it Wednesday following new sexual harassment allegations by former aide Lindsey Boylan . .
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NEW: Cuomo says he is not sure whether he will sign the remaining police reform bills passed by state Legislature last week. He signed four of the bills yesterday but body cams/racial profiling ban and others still remain unsigned. ————>.
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Lots of energy still as marchers approach 11 pm deadline imposed by NYPD, which has said it will begin making arrests after then
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Zeldin getting the celebrity treatment at Westchester event rope line
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Apparently Christie thinks … another GOP candidate might’ve been better positioned to take on @JohnFetterman.
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"The nomination is lost" NYS Senate Judiciary Chair Brad Hoylman-Sigal said . GOP objections but meeting adjourned.
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Six NYS lawmakers circling up to discuss why they are sleeping out in the NYS Capitol . higher taxes on wealthy is one key reason
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A 100-person strong contingent of medical workers is arriving at Grand Army Plaza after marching from SUNY Downstate
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Fresh calls for new investigations/subpoenas of Cuomo handling of nursing home deaths are coming in so fast I'm struggling to keep up. Here are FOUR more that just hit my inbox
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NEW: Siena Poll gives Gov. Kathy Hochul a 17-point lead (54-37) over Republican Lee Zeldin ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Hochul has 70-20 lead in NYC. Hochul has 50-45 lead in suburbs*. Zeldin leads 45-44 upstate . *Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Rockland.
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NEW: "New York State Build Public Renewables Act"(S6453C) has passed the NYS Senate. Final vote: 39-24.1/.
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Here is how a bit of jeering and the hurt pride of a cop kicked things off just when it looked like cops were done arresting people on Nostrand Ave about 10:30pm Friday night in Brooklyn
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NEW: Cuomo says Javits Center will open as a vaccine distribution site on Wed.
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"I never wanted to have a political litmus test". Hochul says of objections to LaSalle's record on labor/abortion rights.
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This all happened for no reasons. The cops were all leaving BUT one cop’s pride was hurt and things escalated from there.
Cops hit a man with batons and shove a reporter after arrests on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. Wild
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Brooklyn residents jeer police as march passes their homes
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Tax-the-rich activists getting arrested in War Room inside state Capitol just now
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NEW: Thirteen Democratic senators were against the congestion pricing IOU legislation idea as of last night, according to 3 Senate sources.
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"No one will ever say the words 'Defund The Police' in my presence. That is not going to go anywhere. You're not going to make friends with me if you say that.". - Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose former LG expressed support for Defund, at the NYS Assn of Chiefs of Police.
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The Zeldin campaign at its core 25 words:. "New Yorkers are hitting their breaking point. They feel like their wallet, their safety, their freedom, the quality of their kids education are under attack".
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BREAKING: NYS Assembly has passed bill (A07389C/ @annakelles) imposing moratorium on . "proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions" at old fossil fuel plants . Final vote: 95-52.
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State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins hits back at critics (like Hochul!) who say Hector LaSalle hearing wasn't fair . "Clear that there are those that don't accept the Senate's role in this process, and will not be happy unless we simply act as a rubber stamp"
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NEW: Bill allowing automatic voting registration has passed NYS Assembly after two hour debate.
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Zeldin says he would appoint a special prosecutor on COVID on "Day One" IF he wins November election against Hochul, who has dragged her feet on such a probe
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Hearing Nassau GOP is going to call for Rep George Santos to resign today.
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“Carl Paladino is a racist. Not ‘racially insensitive,’ not ‘unsophisticated,’ a straight-up, old-school racist. And I know this from my personal experiences in 2018, carrying the party’s banner in New York State.”. - 2018 GOP AG candidate Keith Wofford, who is Black, via spox
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"I have not seen the letter from the Albany press corps," Gov Cuomo says. This is yet another time when the governor has claimed ignorance when asked about the management of his own press conferences.
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Jay Jacobs is the focus of criticism today by NY Democrats . But some Brooklyn Dems say county Chair Rodneyse Bichotte ought to go too . "Time and time again she's been too busy picking meaningless fights to consolidate her own power rathe than help build the party" -BK elected.
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Thousands of protesters kneeling in Utica Avenue in Brooklyn
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“Yes”. Andrea Stewart-Cousins on whether new search must begin for a new Chief Judge candidates following Judiciary Committee vote against LaSalle.
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Looks like NYPD has protesters surrounded at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn
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GOP raise guff about NYS establishing Excluded Workers Fund to benefit undocumented people. Dem Sen. Liz Krueger fires back:. "They didn't have paperwork," she says of family members who came from Europe to escape anti-semitism. "They were allowed to stay & now I'm a NYS senator".
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This is the moment the NYPD attacks a man with a camera who claimed he is the communications director for @JuliaCarmel__
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BREAKING: Zeldin NOT conceding NYS gubernatorial race. “We have been crushing the Election Day vote across the entire state”.
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Looks like many protesters are going to call it a night after defying 11 pm deadline to stop— just as they approach the heavily guarded Barclays Center
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INBOX: NYS Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs – a big Cuomo ally – has something to say about this new socialist primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Carolyn Maloney
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"We took care of the rent issue here in NY" says Cuomo. Activists might disagree . .
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DSA state Senate candidate David Alexis: Totally got the signatures to get on ballot against incumbent Kevin Parker
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Manhattan state Sen Brad Hoylman sticking up for Hochul’s proposed housing plan at NYS Capitol rally. Plan faces fierce oppo on both sides of aisle from suburbanites
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Ft Greene Park in Brooklyn was one of the first places in NYC where NYPD came out in force as protests erupted over the death of George Floyd. Two weeks later, a peaceful protest is going thru the park. It is the biggest march I’ve seen since all of this began.
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No Cuomo 👀.
Tune in for a briefing with Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
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"The governor needs to resign". state Sen. Jessica Ramos.
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This is the crazed look you get when you finish all the Robert Caro books (Robert Moses + LBJ) in 7 months
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Hochul says LaSalle hearing wasn't "fair" – and the fight for a floor vote will go on!
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Assemblywoman Latrice Walker said at Rikers presser that she is going on hunger strike, starting Sunday, to protest Hochul effort to change bail laws thru budget. "We're asking our colleagues to hold strong . We don't have to do this".
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INBOX: Cuomo doing another tax-funded propaganda event closed to the press today
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