Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams, New York’s two most powerful Democrats, are staring down a mutually beneficial alliance after a somewhat rocky start following Adams’ January inauguration
NEW YORK — In the rough-and-rugged world of New York politics, Mayor Eric Adams’ intimate April dinner with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a haute Manhattan eatery drew outsized intrigue.
Adams, in an interview with POLITICO, demurred when asked if he would endorse Hochul without a significant push from her to extend mayoral control. Adams’ caginess over what would appear to be a fait accompli — a Democratic mayor endorsing a sitting Democratic governor — and his courtship with Cuomo suggests Adams is playing classic tit-for-tat New York politics.
Public signs point to a cordial rapport between Adams and Hochul, absent the enmity that characterized the relationship of their mutual predecessors. Cuomo and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had such disdain for one another that they would often go out of their way to undercut the other — particularly Cuomo, who used his power to upstage de Blasio on many occasions.
Adams, who has boasted of his ability to achieve his goals in Albany because of his previous years as state senator, has yet to follow through onnecessary to fulfill his “Get Stuff Done” mantra at the state Capitol, according to several top Democrats in the Legislature. State legislators have in previous years pushed the extension to the final weeks of session after the state budget deadline on April 1, offering the reasoning that policy items shouldn’t be included in the state’s fiscal plan, and that mayoral control isn’t set to expire until June 30.
“It’s unlikely that there’ll be a four-year extension with no changes, as the mayor and governor want, and it’s unlikely that that we’ll allow the school governance system that’s been in place for 20 years to revert back to the previous system,” he said, referring to the convoluted school governance structure that existed before mayoral control.
The Hochul campaign declined comment on the Adams endorsement talk. Several people in the Hochul camp, however, acknowledged that Adams’ endorsement would go a long way in building momentum, but pushed back on the idea that it’s their top objective when it comes to rallying support among Black voters downstate.
Adams invited her to say a few words at the tail end of his speech, but was surprised, the person said, because Hochul was invited to the party, but not on the stage.
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