| | | | |  | | By Erin Durkin, Anna Gronewold and Deanna Garcia | | | The drama among New York Democrats is escalating ahead of today's release of a final set of redistricting lines for congressional and state Senate seats. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney to step down as the Democrats' House campaign chair if he ends up in a primary against Rep. Mondaire Jones — blasting his decision to run in a newly drawn district that falls mostly on Jones' turf. She calls his move "terrible" and "hypocritical" and says it "absolutely further imperils our majority." This all started when a court-appointed special master released a proposed set of district maps to replace ones created by the Democratic-controlled Legislature that were thrown out as an unconstitutional gerrymander. Maloney, who represents the 18th District and heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, announced he would instead run in the 17th District, where his home would be located under the new map. The issue with that is that seat is held by Rep. Mondaire Jones, a progressive Black freshman. Jones in turn would see his home moved to the 16th district, now held by fellow progressive Black freshman Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Jones hasn't announced where he plans to run. Fellow Democrats, especially in the progressive wing, are enraged at Maloney's choice. They say it will make it harder for the party to hold control of his more competitive 18th district, which will now become an open seat — on top of the nearby seat being vacated by Rep. Antonio Delgado to become lieutenant governor. "Given the resources that he has at his helm, it creates a conflict of interest," Ocasio-Cortez told POLITICO's Ally Mutnick. She said Maloney's move is "particularly shameful as a member of Democratic leadership…who asks all of us to make sacrifices in one way or another, who asks progressives to make sacrifices on their stances in order to preserve a majority." Bowman is also blasting the choice, as Democrats hold out scant hope the final maps released today will ease the imbroglio. "Two Black men who worked hard to represent their communities, who fight hard for their constituents in Congress… should not be pitted against each other all because Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney wants to have a slightly easier district for himself," he said. "The solution is simple. Congressman Maloney should run in his own district. I'll be running in mine." IT'S FRIDAY. 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 KATHY? Making a child care announcement and attending Washington Heights community block party. WHERE'S ERIC? Making a housing related announcement.
| | | | A message from PhRMA: Did you know more than half of every dollar spent on medicines goes to someone who doesn't make them? There's a long line of middlemen, like PBMs and insurers, collecting a significant portion of what you pay for medicine. The share of total spending for brand medicines received by the supply chain and other stakeholders increased from 33% in 2013 to 50.5% in 2020. Learn more. | | | |  | What City Hall's reading | | "Albany reaches deal to keep NYC speed cameras running 24/7," by New York Post's Bernadette Hogan and Zach Williams: "State lawmakers have finalized a deal that would extend and expand New York City's speed camera program for three years — including keeping them on for 24 hours. 'We have finalized an agreement to renew the speed camera program and expand the hours to 24/7,' said state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) who will be the new bill's sponsor with Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) ushering it in the lower chamber." " Court reinstates New York City's ban on police restraints," by The Associated Press' Michael R. Sisak: "An appeals court reinstated a New York City law Thursday that prohibits the city's police officers from putting pressure on a person's torso while making an arrest, reversing a lower court ruling that labeled the measure as 'unconstitutionally vague.' A five-judge panel in the appellate division of the state's trial court ruled that the law, passed in 2020 in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, is clear in what officers can and can't do and won't lead to arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement." " Why Adams Is Rejecting Mask Mandates as Covid Cases Rise in New York," by The New York Times' Emma G. Fitzsimmons: "In what was a typically busy week for Mayor Eric Adams, he met with the model Gigi Hadid at Netflix's studio in Brooklyn. He visited a college to promote a new degree in video game design. And he visited the State Capitol in Albany to push for the renewal of mayoral control of schools. But as New York City entered the high risk level for the coronavirus, Mr. Adams did not hold any public events to warn residents about the surge in cases. Mr. Adams has insisted that he would not bring back mask and vaccine mandates and would instead focus on antiviral treatments and at-home testing." — "Why COVID outbreaks are still a mystery in NYC schools," by The City's Betsy Ladyzhets " Rockaway lifeguards sound alarm on deadly potential of city's beach closure plan," by Gothamist's Jake Offenhartz: "When hordes of sweaty New Yorkers make their annual pilgrimage to Rockaway Beach this Memorial Day, they may notice more red flags and fewer lifeguards. ... Between Beach 86th Street and Beach 116th Street, the Parks Department announced this week, swimming won't be allowed at all through at least July 15th — confirming what many had feared for weeks. The ocean ban is being touted as a compromise." "Eric Adams Calls for 24-Hour Overdose Prevention Centers," by The City's Jose Martinez: "The overdose prevention center in East Harlem was still a half hour from opening, but several people were already waiting outside this Thursday morning so they could enter to do drugs while under supervision. 'A lot of people, we don't have nothing to do around here,' Anthony Robinson, 56, a heroin user who goes to the center on most days, told THE CITY. 'And the drug epidemic is getting stronger and stronger by not having the center open at all hours.'"
| | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | "Assembly expected to approve Adult Survivors Act before Legislature adjourns," by Newsday's Yancey Roy: "The leader of the State Assembly confirmed Thursday that the chamber will approve the so-called Adult Survivors Act within the next two weeks, before the State Legislature adjourns for the year. The bill would create a one-year window for a person who was sexually abused as an adult to sue their alleged abusers or institutions even if the statute of limitations has expired. It's based on the landmark Child Victims Act, which, enacted three years ago, resulted in 10,857 claims being filed. It was limited to individuals who were 17 or younger at the time of the alleged abuse." Upstate New York becomes hotbed for cryptocurrency mining. It might not last., by POLITICO's Marie J. French: Behind chain-link fencing topped by barbed wire, excavators are parked beside the shells of two green buildings that are under construction. Three smoke stacks towering overhead serve as a reminder of when the Greenidge power plant burned 740,000 tons of coal annually here in New York's Finger Lakes, delivering enough electricity for more than 200,000 homes. Today, the facility uses much of the power it generates, now through natural gas, to operate a cryptocurrency mining operation on the site. … Supporters of the industry say the plants help rebuild the struggling upstate New York economy. But as more cryptocurrency mining operations pop up in the state, taking advantage of old industrial space and cheap energy access, environmentalists and some state government officials have grown concerned about the impact. "The long struggle to bring a supermarket to a nearly all-Black Buffalo neighborhood," by CNN Business's Nathaniel Meyersohn: "Last Saturday, nearly 20 years after it opened, Tops stood as the lone supermarket in the heart of Black Buffalo when a White supremacist entered the store and killed 10 people and injured three more, almost all of them Black. The attack struck at a symbol of hard-won progress for the East Side, where 85% of the city's Black residents live. The area is scarred by a legacy of racial segregation, economic and political neglect, dilapidated housing and other barriers. Buffalo remains one of the most segregated cities in America. " — "Multiple state correction officers could face "swift" discipline for commenting on a 'vile posting' on Facebook this week in which another officer allegedly wrote about a 'clean up' of aisles in the wake of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store." — "A 911 dispatcher has been placed on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on [a] supermarket employee hiding during this weekend's shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York." "Lawsuit: Hochul's office involved in retaliatory firing of ethics officer," by Times Union's Chris Bragg: "The ethics officer for a state agency felt a colleague might be improperly steering a contract to a politically connected law firm. So last September, Melissa Saren filed a complaint with New York's ethics oversight body. Before doing so, she'd received approval from her supervisor at the New York State Insurance Fund, acting Executive Director Mary Beth Woods. Three days after the complaint was filed, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul allegedly instructed Woods to resign. Hochul's director of state operations, Kathryn Garcia, allegedly told Woods that her services were 'no longer needed.' And less than three weeks later, Saren was fired from her longtime job at the Insurance Fund — also without explanation." #UpstateAmerica: How much do you love track season? Saratoga Racecourse is hiring.
| | | | A message from PhRMA:   | | | | | FROM THE DELEGATION | | New redistricting maps: Compactness, not uniting similar communities, looks like focus, by POLITICO's Bill Mahoney: Heaps of comments on New York's district lines have been submitted to the Steuben County Supreme Court since it released draft plans Monday for congressional and state Senate districts. But will the comments matter? How much the pleas and recommendations will impact the final set of lines for New York's 26 congressional and 63 state Senate seats is the top question before the final set of maps are released Friday. So far, a review of the draft maps suggests that existing public input had minimal impact on the process. " Jeffries Fights New York District Maps: 'Enough to Make Jim Crow Blush,'" by The New York Times' Nicholas Fandos: "Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the second-highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, has launched an aggressive effort to discredit a proposed congressional map that would divide historically Black neighborhoods in New York, likening its configurations to Jim Crow tactics. Mr. Jeffries is spending tens of thousands of dollars on digital advertising as part of a scorched-earth campaign to try to stop New York's courts from making the new map final without changes later this week." FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — A pro-housing group is warning that a court-ordered redistricting plan would create a NIMBY super district in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In comments submitted to the special master overseeing the redistricting process, Open New York complains that the new 10th Congressional District "strings together many of New York City's whitest and most affluent 'historic districts,' including the Meatpacking district, West Village, SoHo, Tribeca, the South Street Seaport, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens. "This is, to use a colloquialism we are fond of, the 'NIMBY district,' creating a constituency uniquely situated to serve the interests of wealthier homeowners in neighborhoods where City policy has severely restricted housing growth," writes executive director William Thomas in a letter to special master Jonathan Cervas. "The representative from this district would have an unprecedented interest in thwarting federal attempts to enforce the Fair Housing Act's mandate to affirmatively further fair housing." — Erin Durkin — "Some Brooklyn lawmakers say the court-ordered redraw of congressional maps discriminates against the borough's Orthodox Jewish community and are urging the state judge overseeing the gerrymandering case to place all Jewish neighborhoods into one district." "A special election to replace Delgado in Congress is happening in August, but depends who you ask," by Times Union's Joshua Solomon: "Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan said he will be running in the August special election to fill the congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, who is poised to become the next lieutenant governor of New York. 'I'm thrilled to announce that I am running for Congress in the special election to succeed (Delgado) this August!' Ryan tweeted Tuesday. ... But questions posed to Gov. Kathy Hochul and the campaign teams of Ryan or Delgado elicit responses which they will not commit to an official timeline for Delgado to resign, which would set the clock for a special election."
| | AROUND NEW YORK | | — The city is investigating a potential case of monkeypox. — A New York City school funding formula was approved by the Panel for Educational Policy after they previously rejected it. — Adams claimed he has "never witnessed crime at this level," even though homicides were quadruple today's rate when he served in the NYPD in the 1990s. — Adams doubled down in his opposition to Rikers Island being put under a federal receivership, arguing that accepting such oversight would open the door to federal control of city services like education and sanitation. — The federal government could soon add uterine cancer to the list of conditions covered by the World Trade Center Health Program. — Formula 1 rejected Adams' offer for a F1 race on Randalls and Wards Island. — An 18-year-old Fort Hamilton High School student was arrested for a string of bomb threats against the school. — Many of the city's community schools are bracing for cuts. — New York's population was likely overcounted in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau announced. — A few weeks before the Buffalo shooting, gubernatorial hopeful GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin told a crowd in Long Island that the state should drop its "red flag" law.
| | SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo … Jon Meacham … Craig Melvin … Phil Elliott of Time … ABC's Dan Abrams … New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi … Walter Isaacson … former New York Gov. David Paterson … Tom McGeveran … Justin Portes … Francine Segan … Katie Lewallen MAKING MOVES — Laura Mascuch is the new chief of staff at the state Health Department. She was previously executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York. ENGAGED — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got engaged to her longtime boyfriend Riley Roberts during a recent trip to Puerto Rico. SPOTTED at VICE News' "Almost Summer Party" on Thursday night at their Williamsburg office: Subrata De, Jamali Maddix, Chris Smalls, Molly Jong Fast, Noah Shachtman, Alice Lloyd, Cat Rakowski, Elise Flick, Will Rahn, Aaron Rutkoff, Shawn McCreesh, Lauren Boone, Justin Miller, Matt Negrin, Ali Breland, Kevin Collier and Gabriel Snyder. SPOTTED at a garden party on Thursday night at the home of Margaret Carlson to celebrate the publication of Alan Patricof's "No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone" ($25.20) co-hosted by Jane Harman and Afsaneh Bescholoss: Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), French Amb. Philllipe Etienne, Italian Amb. Mariangela Zappia, John Phillips and Linda Douglass, Andrea Mitchell, Michael Beschloss, Josh Dawsey, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Jennifer Maguire, Chris Isham, Bob Barnett and Rita Braver, Francesca Craig, David Adler, Margaret Warner, Pam Stevens, Michael Kinsley, Patty Stonesifer and Sally Quinn.
| | | | A message from PhRMA: Did you know that PBMs, insurers, hospitals, the government, and others received a larger share of total spending on medicines than biopharmaceutical companies? That's right, more than half of spending on brand medicines goes to someone who doesn't make them. Let's fix the system the right way and ensure more of the savings go to patients, not middlemen. Learn more. | | | | | Real Estate | | "Demolition for Jail Can Go Forward, Judge Rules in a Suit Brought by Artists," by The New York Times' Zachary Small: "A judge declined to halt the demolition at the Manhattan Detention Complex in Chinatown on Wednesday, at a hearing in a lawsuit brought by two artists whose works there may be moved or demolished. The artists had filed the lawsuit against New York City under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, with support from a local group, Neighbors United Below Canal, whose members are opposed to plans to build a new jail on that site." " Cuck Money Is the New Key Money," by Curbed's Bridget Read: "Andrew* and his fiancée thought it was a good sign that the guy showing them the duplex in Bushwick had co-founded a nonprofit that 'works to end poverty.' The application process was presented as 'very vibey,' Andrew says: The man handling the lease was a friend of the landlord, lived down the street, and was 'collaborating' with him on finding new tenants. The couple had found the place on the Listings Project, a weekly newsletter that advertises itself as 'committed to building an anti-oppressive community that is rooted in collective self-care.' Things quickly became very un-vibey." "Developers Scramble to Start Apartment Buildings Before Key Tax Break Expires," by The City's Greg David | | | | 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 | Ottawa Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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