| | | | | |  | | By Erin Durkin, Anna Gronewold and Téa Kvetenadze | Presented by Equinor | Today's the day: New Yorkers will head to the polls for the last day of this year's primary election, with almost 200,000 early votes already cast, and choose the Democratic nominee who will be the overwhelming favorite to be the city's next mayor. The election has been shaped by a pandemic that walloped New York City and the beginnings of a recovery that is taking shape as voters choose their next mayor. And, it's been dominated by a spike in gun violence that put public safety foremost on the minds of many. It's not just the mayoral race that's up for grabs: voters will choose among contenders for city comptroller, Manhattan district attorney, borough presidents, and City Council seats. There's also a competitive — if lower-profile — Republican primary for mayor. Eric Adams leads the polls, including one released on Monday, but Kathryn Garcia, Maya Wiley, and Andrew Yang are all contending for second place, and ranked-choice voting makes it impossible to predict who will come out on top. On the last full day of campaigning Monday, candidates criss-crossed the city and the sparring again focused on the 11th-hour controversy over an alliance between Garcia and Yang, who campaigned together once more last night in Manhattan. Adams continued to suggest the move was intended to suppress the votes of Black New Yorkers, referencing the kind of "poll tax" once widely used to prevent Black people from casting ballots altogether. Yang shot back: "The last thing New York City needs is a mayor who uses race baiting any time he is criticized." A note on expectations: It will likely be a while before we know the winner with certainty. First choice vote totals will be released tonight when polls close. But it's quite likely that no one will get a majority in the first round, and the Board of Elections will not run any ranked-choice tallies until next Tuesday. After that, there will still be absentee ballots to count. If you haven't voted yet, polls are now open and will be until 9 p.m. IT'S TUESDAY. Happy Election Day! Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know ... By email: EDurkin@politico.com and agronewold@politico.com, or on Twitter: @erinmdurkin and @annagronewold WHERE'S ANDREW? In Albany with no public events scheduled. DAYS TO THE PRIMARY: 0! Polls are open. | | | | A message from Equinor: Can a wind turbine generate more than electricity? We believe it can. At Equinor, we're planning to power more than 1,000,000 homes in New York with homegrown, renewable energy. But we can do more. As a broad energy company with an ambitious net-zero target for 2050, we're pursuing the development of offshore wind projects in the US and quickly becoming a leader in the country's growing offshore wind industry. | | |
|  | WHAT CITY HALL'S READING | | Adams doubles down on inflammatory accusations in final hours of mayoral campaign, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg, Téa Kvetenadze, and Danielle Muoio : Mayoral frontrunner Eric Adams doubled down on his inflammatory warning that an alliance between two of his rivals amounts to voter suppression on Monday, as candidates stumped through the city in a whirlwind final day of campaigning before voters head to the polls on Tuesday. "African Americans are very clear on voter suppression. We know about a poll tax. We know about the fight that we've had historically, how you had to go through hurdles to vote," Adams said during a morning appearance on CNN. "So [if my supporters] feel based on their perception that it suppresses the vote, then I respect their feelings; it's not for me to interpret their feelings." — Mayor Bill de Blasio derided the 11th-hour alliance as "opportunistic." — "Rancor Between Adams and Yang Marks End of Bruising Mayoral Campaign ," by The New York Times' Dana Rubinstein: "On the final full day of New York City's mayoral primary campaign, the leading Democratic candidate, Eric Adams, called a top rival a 'liar' and a 'fraud.' Only moments earlier, that rival, Andrew Yang, had suggested that Mr. Adams 'cuts corners and breaks rules,' and that if Mr. Adams was to become mayor, his administration 'would be mired in dysfunction and questions and investigation almost from Day 1.'" — Yang said he didn't rank top rival Adams on his ballot when he voted. 'No one is gonna steal the election from me': Echoes of 2020 in NYC mayor's race, by POLITICO's Erin Durkin and David Giambusso: Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday to pick the next mayor of the nation's biggest city. But the closing days of the election, and perhaps the weeks that follow, may as well be a referendum on the ballot itself. The city's new ranked-choice voting system, which will allow voters to pick their top five favorite candidates in order of preference, has upended standard political assumptions since the start of the campaign. Now, a racially-tinged battle has erupted over the process, with the leading candidate raising questions about fairness after two of his opponents formed a last-minute alliance meant to bolster their own campaigns. The claims by Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and frontrunner in the polls, have laid the groundwork for him to contest the results if the election doesn't go his way — an echo of the fallout from the 2020 presidential election… Asked point blank Monday if he would accept the results of the election, Adams did not give a promising answer. "Can you assure voters that's not what you're doing here?" a reporter asked Adams Monday, referencing former President Donald Trump's claims the election was stolen from him. "Yes," Adams replied. "I assure voters that no one is gonna steal the election from me." But experts in ranked-choice voting, which has never been tried in any election of this size, argue Adams' concerns are overblown — that in most cases the person leading the pack in the polls and the one who emerges with the most first-place votes on election night wins. — "Here's How New Yorkers Feel About Ranked-Choice Voting," by The New York Times' Michael Wilson "How Progressives Could Lose New York's Mayor's Race — But Win the City," by New York Focus's Akash V. Mehta and Sam Mellins: "From the vantage of New York City's left, the city's mayoral election is a mess … Still, even if the top spot ends up out of reach, New York's 2021 primaries, which run through June 22, may not turn out to be the bust progressives fear. Further down the ballot, progressives may yet pull off a wave of transformative victories. Thirty-five of the 51 current City Councilmembers are term limited, meaning the Council will see a turnover of at least two-thirds of its members. Progressive groups have recruited candidates in most of those open races, from stars of the city's left like [Tiffany] Cabán, who gained national prominence during her 2019 run for Queens DA, to less familiar names running in terrain far from the left's strongholds, like Adolfo Abreu, a longtime community organizer running as a socialist in a Bronx district currently held by an anti-abortion Democrat with a record of anti-LGBTQ bigotry." — Progressives who have had successes in western Queens are now looking to win City Council elections in historically conservative central and eastern parts of the borough. Bill de Blasio Has Some Regrets, by POLITICO's Ruby Cramer: The mayor likes to walk in the middle of the day, preferably around 2:30 p.m. This is the best time, when the sun has traveled across Prospect Park, just beginning its descent west, and when, on weekdays, the shaded trails are empty and still. When most New Yorkers, at home or at work, have someplace else to be. On Thursday, Bill de Blasio's city-issued black SUV pulls to the curb. "Can we go get a hot dog?" he asks his staff inside the darkened car. I stood waiting outside. The mayor, nearing his final months in office as the city decides who will replace him in City Hall, has agreed to show off his regular route, a private routine he's jealously guarded for himself the last year. "NYPD watchdog says 39 cops should be disciplined over George Floyd protests," by New York Post's Craig McCarthy: "The Civilian Complaint Review Board has recommended discipline against 39 officers over their response in last year's George Floyd protests — including departmental charges against 14 of them, according to a new report released Monday. The city's police watchdog issued an update on its investigation into the NYPD's handling of the protests last summer, saying it has so far substantiated 26 complaints of misconduct against the nearly 40 officers." | | | | DON'T MISS THE MILKEN INSTITUTE FUTURE OF HEALTH SUMMIT: POLITICO will feature a special edition of our Future Pulse newsletter at the 2021 Milken Institute Future of Health Summit. The newsletter takes readers inside one of the most influential gatherings of global health industry leaders and innovators who are turning lessons learned from the past year into a healthier, more resilient and more equitable future. Covid-19 threatened our health and well-being, while simultaneously leading to extraordinary coordination to improve pandemic preparedness, disease prevention, diversity in clinical trials, mental health resources, food access and more. SUBSCRIBE TODAY to receive exclusive coverage from June 22-23. | | | | |
| | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | "Proposed merger of New York's addiction, mental health offices focus of debate," by Times Union's Bethany Bump: "Roughly half of all people with a mental illness will suffer from addiction at some point in their lives, so why are the two often treated separately? That question has been a topic of debate for years among those working in New York's behavioral health field, but it got renewed attention Monday as members of the state Assembly convened virtually to hear from providers and advocates about the benefits of integrating care for mental illness and substance use disorder among those who struggle with both. Like other states, New York has been moving to better integrate the fields of mental health and addiction so that individuals who have co-occurring disorders no longer have to seek care from multiple providers across multiple settings — a phenomenon that makes getting help even more burdensome than it already is, especially when providers fail to coordinate their care." "Three plead guilty in corruption probe at Orange County Industrial Development agency," by Times Herald-Record's Chris McKenna: "A four-month investigation into potential corruption at the Orange County Industrial Development Agency burst into public view on Monday with three people – including a former county executive – pleading guilty to charges just being revealed publicly for the first time that day. Appearing in County Court to enter their guilty pleas were the agency's former managing director, Vincent Cozzolino, its former CEO, Laurie Villasuso, and Edward Diana, a three-term county executive who served on the IDA's oversight board for the last six years." " Judge lifts parole for Albany man 'trapped in a cycle,'" by Times Union's Brendan J. Lyons: "Stevie Robinson, a member of an Albany family that saw its bustling marijuana enterprise dismantled in a federal criminal case two decades ago, was released from parole supervision recently by a judge who noted Robinson was prosecuted for "a murder he didn't commit" and has been caught in a punitive vortex due to his repeated use of marijuana — a drug that was legalized this year in New York. The unusual decision by U.S. District Senior Judge Lawrence E. Kahn — over the objection of federal prosecutors — underscores the fading consequences of marijuana use by individuals on probation or parole, which the judge noted had left Robinson 'trapped in a cycle of supervised release and re-incarceration' since he left prison last year after serving 15 years for marijuana-related offenses." RACE FOR THE OTHER PLACE: "Gillibrand Rules Out Bid For Governor, Touts Free School Lunch Proposal," by WSKG's Vaughn Golden: "U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) told reporters at an event in Ithaca Monday she is not interested in running for Governor of New York. Gillibrand, who called for the resignation of current Gov. Andrew Cuomo in March in the wake of several misconduct allegations against the governor, said she is ruling out a bid for the office in 2022. 'Yeah, I'm not interested in pursuing that,' Gillibrand said in response to a question from WSKG. Gillibrand has served in the Senate since 2010 and ran for president in 2020." — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new slate of administration appointments. #UpstateAmerica: The Bethlehem bear took a tour of the local high school, just to see what the local academic scene is like. | | | |   | | |
| | TRUMP'S NEW YORK | | "Trump Sues N.Y.C. for Ending Golf Course Contract After Capitol Riot," by New York Times' Jonah E. Bromwich: "The Trump Organization sued New York City on Monday, saying the city had wrongly terminated a lucrative golf course contract for political reasons after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in Washington. The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on the eve of the mayoral election, argued that the January decision by Mayor Bill de Blasio to end the company's 20-year contract to run the public golf course in the Bronx had no legitimate legal basis and was meant only to punish former President Donald J. Trump. 'Mayor de Blasio had a pre-existing, politically-based predisposition to terminate Trump-related contracts, and the city used the events of January 6, 2021 as a pretext to do so,' the suit said. In a statement, the company said that the course was 'widely recognized as one of the most magnificent public golf experiences anywhere in the country.'" "Donald Trump's Former Bodyguard Under Scrutiny in New York Probe," by Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Ballhaus and Corinne Ramey: "New York prosecutors are investigating whether a top Trump Organization executive, Matthew Calamari, received tax-free fringe benefits, as part of their probe into whether former President Donald Trump's company and its employees illegally avoided paying taxes on such perks, according to people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors' interest in Mr. Calamari, once Mr. Trump's bodyguard, indicates that their probe into the Trump Organization's alleged practice of providing some employees with cars and apartments extends beyond Allen Weisselberg, the company's chief financial officer, and his family. Neither Messrs. Calamari and Weisselberg, nor anyone else connected to the company, has been accused of wrongdoing." "As local Conservative Party dumps Katko, Trump approves," by Spectrum's Nick Reisman: "Former President Donald Trump is cheering on Onondaga County Conservative Party Chairman Bernard Ment after he signaled the local committee would not back the re-election of Republican Rep. John Katko. The episode underscores how Republicans like Katko who broke with their party could face uphill battles to win re-election next year, and comes after the GOP conference removed Rep. Liz Cheney from a leadership post in favor of Rep. Elise Stefanik, a prominent Trump supporter. A Republican who represents a battleground district in Central New York, Katko was among the GOP members of Congress to vote in favor of Trump's impeachment this year following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Conservative Party earlier this year signaled Katko would not receive their support in 2022 as he seeks re-election." | | AROUND NEW YORK | | — Video was released showing a suspect in the stabbing of an Eric Adams campaign volunteer. — The Stonewall Inn will stop serving Anheuser-Busch's beers during Pride weekend because of the company's contributions to some politicians who have supported anti-LGBT legislation. — De Blasio launched a new program dubbed QuickStart to help would-be entrepreneurs start small businesses. — De Blasio criticized Amazon's treatment of workers on Staten Island and urged New Yorkers to shop local instead of taking advantage of the company's "Prime Day." — A Manhattan principal tried to let school out for the summer a week early, but she got caught. — The Taxi and Limousine Commission will vote on a regulation change that would prevent Revel from launching in the city. — One family is in the midst of constructing an honest to goodness castle on a lake in Ontario County. — The embattled Nassay Police Commissioner will continue in his role despite calls for his resignation from some in the civil rights community. — Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame will return to full capacity for their next induction ceremony honoring Derek Jeter and others. — The NYPD announced it will increase its Crime Stoppers tip reward money amidst a spike in violence. — The Foo Fighters played the first full-capacity concert in New York since before the pandemic at Madison Square Garden. | | | | SUBSCRIBE TO WEST WING PLAYBOOK: Add West Wing Playbook to keep up with the power players, latest policy developments and intriguing whispers percolating inside the West Wing and across the highest levels of the Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today. | | | | |
| | SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY: AP's Jill Colvin … Apple News' Michael Falcone … Carson Daly … Brit Hume … Lauren Weiner of the ACLU … Nate Sizemore of Rep. Tom Reed's (R-N.Y.) office … Alisa Robbins Doctoroff … Martin Lipton is 9-0 … (was Monday): Chloe Frelinghuysen … Daniel Ahn SPOTTED: Wilbur and Hilary Geary Ross having dinner with Bret and Amy Baier at Cafe Milano on Monday night; and Ret. Gen. David Petraeus (now with KKR) chatting with UAE Ambassador Yousef al Otaiba, who was sitting at another table ENGAGED — Anna Hubbard, a senior account executive at Murphy O'Brien PR and an ICM Partners alum, on Friday got engaged to Mark Rutter, a senior associate at Paul Hastings. The couple met in May 2019 on Hinge. Pic by Heather Decamp Photography WELCOME TO THE WORLD — NBC's Carol Lee and husband Ryan Harmon on June 11 welcomed Montgomery "Monty" Alexander Harmon. He joins big brother Hudson who "can't wait to teach him everything he knows. Monty had heart surgery on Tuesday and hopefully returns home to D.C. next month." WEEKEND WEDDING, via NYT: Kate Harris, director of the Reimagine New York Commission and an Obama Treasury and State Department alum, and Abhishek Gupta, an operating partner at Boldstart Ventures, got married June 12 at the Reform Club in Amagansett, N.Y. | | | | A message from Equinor: The energy transition is the defining challenge opportunity of our time. Without energy, the world would simply stop. Today, 80% of energy comes from fossil fuels—and the energy system has to change. The world needs energy — but it must be affordable, reliable, and accessible. How will we do it? By accelerating the energy transition . At Equinor, we're growing our portfolio in renewable energy and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. We're already planning to power more than 1,000,000 homes in New York with homegrown, renewable energy. But for us, that's only the beginning. By the time the global population reaches 9 billion in 2050, our goal is to have net-zero emissions. Discover more about Equinor at www.equinor.com/USA. | | |
| | REAL ESTATE | | "NY flooded with nearly 100K rent relief applications in two weeks," by The Real Deal via Newsday: "More than 90,000 New York households filed for rent relief in the two weeks after the state's new program went live, Newsday reported Saturday. The $2.7 billion initiative is accepting applications from tenants whose household income is no more than 80 percent of their area median income. If approved, they can receive assistance for up to one year of unpaid rent and utility bills, plus up to three months of future rent." | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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