Jeffries praises Eric Adams for serving 'courageously'

[Polybius]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) praised New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for serving “courageously” after Adams ended his independent reelection campaign Sunday.

“Eric Adams has served courageously and authentically for decades as a Member of the N.Y.P.D., the New York State Senate, in Brooklyn Borough Hall and as our 110th Mayor,” Jeffries said in a statement reported by multiple media outlets.

“During his time in office, violent crime is down, the building of affordable housing units is up and New York City has recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic,” he added.

Adams, New York City’s mayor since 2022, exited the race less than a month before early voting begins. His departure sets up a three-way race between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who is running as an independent.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5526279-mayor-adams-praised-hakeem-jeffries/

[AZProgressive]

1. Crime is going back down across the nation

It has steadily been going down the 80s or early 90s. We did have a temporary spike in crime due to the Covid economy but in the past 2 or 3 years it has been going back down.

Not sure you can call someone as corrupt as Adams "authentic" but I can't believe at one point Democrats wanted him in charge of "messaging".

[QueerDuck]

2. Meh. Political niceties. He's being a courteous and diplomatic and that fits the dignity of his role.

I think it's best if we leave it to the pundits and comedians and youtubers and editorialists and shock-jocks to pummel Adams with insults and tell him what a rotten man he is. We have bigger fish to fry. This is just purity-driven grievance shopping. Anyone who wants to waste their time looking long enough and hard enough for reasons to be mad will surely find it.

I seem to recall that some people had similar absurd gripes about Pelosi. It went something like this: "Remember that time that Nancy Pelosi didn't punch Trump in the face when she had the opportunity? I mean, she was standing right there! She could have called him a piece-of-shit right to his face and kicked him in the balls! I was hoping for more, what a disappointment. She's old and 'establishment'. "

[Polybius]

4. Kinzinger knocked him for it though

Kinzinger knocks Jeffries for praising Eric Adams: ‘Are you kidding me?’

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Sunday slammed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) over a statement praising New York City Mayor Eric Adams following Adams’s decision to end his reelection bid.

“Are you kidding me? Eric Adams is corrupt and cut a corrupt deal with [President] Trump to save himself,” Kinzinger said in a post on the social platform X.

Kinzinger’s post also featured a statement from Jeffries in which the Democrat said Adams had “served courageously and authentically for decades as a Member of the N.Y.P.D., the New York State Senate, in Brooklyn Borough Hall and as our 110th Mayor.”

Adams recently announced his decision to drop his reelection campaign, marking another significant twist in the New York City mayoral race. The contest took an unexpected turn June when New York Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated political heavyweight and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in the Democratic primary.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5526991-nyc-mayoral-race-twists-kinzinger-jeffries/

[SamKnause]

3. Why ??? He is a crook.