| | | | |  | | By Erin Durkin , Anna Gronewold and Julian Shen-Berro | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending busloads of asylum seekers to New York City — whether they want to come here or not, according to Mayor Eric Adams. It's a move Adams condemned as "horrific" and "unimaginable" on Sunday as he greeted a bus arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The migrants arriving on buses chartered by the state of Texas are far from the only asylum seekers making their way to the city: Thousands have entered city homeless shelters in the last few months. But while Abbott previously denied Adams' charges that Texas and Arizona were dispatching new arrivals to New York, this time he's making a point of trumpeting it. "Because of President Biden's continued refusal to acknowledge the crisis caused by his open border policies, the State of Texas has had to take unprecedented action to keep our communities safe," Abbott said Friday. "In addition to Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city. I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief." To New York officials, this is a grotesque example of using human beings as pawns to make a political point. While advocates for homeless New Yorkers have been sparring with Adams over the mayor's claims that the arrival of migrants is to blame for overflowing shelters, on this point they agree. The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless accused Abbott of "shamelessly exploiting these migrants… to serve some myopic political purpose." Adams continues to walk a fine line, blasting the political maneuvering that sent asylum seekers to his doorstep while stressing that the immigrants themselves will be welcomed — if they want to stay, that is. He said people have been "forced" onto buses, even if they want to travel to other cities where family members are waiting for them. And he's pleading for federal aid to house people who enter the city shelter system. IT'S MONDAY. 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? Signing housing legislation. WHERE'S ERIC? Making a sanitation announcement.
| | | | STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? Find out who's up, who's down, and who really has the president's ear in our West Wing Playbook newsletter, the insider's guide to the Biden White House and Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details that you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today . | | | | | |  | What City Hall's reading | | " Judge orders redo for NYC schools budget ," by Chalkbeat's Reema Amin and Amy Zimmer: "A Manhattan judge ruled Friday to throw out the New York City education department's budget and allow the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams to reconsider how to fund schools this year. Judge Lyle Frank ruled in favor of two teachers and two parents who filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court last month, claiming that the city violated state law when it approved the education department's budget for this fiscal year. The extraordinary ruling means that until the City Council revisits the budget, New York City must fund the school system at the same levels it did last fiscal year, which could mean at least a temporary boost in funding for most city schools. As many advocates, educators and union leaders celebrated the ruling, the city filed a notice to appeal hours after the judge published his decision." — " Adams Vs. Adams: NYC Mayor, Speaker Go Blow For Blow Over Budget ," by Patch's Naeisha Rose " How a Contract Eluded Staten Island Ferry Workers for Nearly 12 Years ," by The City's Claudia Irrizarry Aponte: "When former Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014, he faced an enormous hurdle: settling every one of the city's 152 contracts covering more than 300,000 municipal workers that had lapsed in the final years of the administration of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. He delivered quickly, reaching agreements within his first months in office with the United Federation of Teachers and District Council 37, the largest municipal workers' union, together representing 60% of the city's workforce. During his tenure, the Office of Labor Relations settled nearly every single contract before the city. But one expired contract stands out. It covered some 100 Staten Island Ferry captains and mates — or did until 2010. It remains unsettled to this day, to the bewilderment and frustrations of workers, local elected officials and commuters facing last-minute route shortages." " City's Admissions That It Can't Care for Rikers Detainees May Propel Suits ," by The New York Times' Jonah E. Bromwich: "The security-camera images tell a remarkable story: A man being held on Rikers Island collapses and is carried to a medical clinic — not by the correction officer outside his housing unit but by other detainees. The man, Herman Diaz, 52, who had choked on an orange slice, did not survive. This week, Mr. Diaz's family filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan seeking $20 million in damages. The suit relies on reports and court documents created by the city itself over the past two years that acknowledge that New York cannot adequately care for the people in its jails. If the suit succeeds, it could provide a road map for more than two dozen other families whose relatives died in custody." " How New York City Hopes to Win Its Long, Losing War on Trash ," by The New York Times' Dodai Stewart: "'Did you get that?' It was a steamy July morning on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, and a man in a rat mask was being filmed for the New York Department of Sanitation's TikTok account. The plot involved Buddy the Rat and an unnamed raccoon character attempting to break into a three-foot-tall trash shed — the city's latest weapon in its long, losing war on trash. The people filming nodded. They got the shot. For the city, social media campaigns and rat-resistant receptacles are just the latest attempts to solve a New York City quandary that is more than a century old: What do you do with millions of people's trash every day?" " A push to hire school safety officers awakens an old debate ," by the Gothamist's Julian Roberts-Grmela: "About a month before the first day of the new school year, police officials are still struggling to fill nearly 500 open school safety officer positions. They are jobs that Mayor Eric Adams, who spent 22 years in law enforcement, and school and police officials say play an essential part in keeping children safe. … But the push to beef up the safety officer ranks has also reawakened an age-old debate about whether hiring more of the unarmed guards is really the best way to keep children safe. Some students, staff, and advocates say school safety officers disproportionately target students of color and can actually make them feel less safe at school."
| | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | " Hochul campaign slams Zeldin over allegedly photocopied signatures ," by New York Daily News' Shant Shahrigian: "Gov. Hochul's reelection campaign is blasting her Republican challenger over allegations of petition fraud. The Democratic incumbent's campaign manager says New Yorkers deserve answers about more than 11,000 petition signatures that were allegedly photocopied to allow Rep. Lee Zeldin to run on the Independence Party line in addition to the GOP ticket in the fall general election. Hochul's campaign manager Brian Lenzmeier noted Zeldin, of Long Island, had voted against approving the 2020 presidential election results. Zeldin was a big advocate of false claims that the contest was stolen from former President Donald Trump." " Charged with attacking Zeldin, Iraq vet must navigate path to mental health treatment ," by Times Union's Joshua Solomon: "Hours after he tackled David G. Jakubonis to the ground to separate him from U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin at a campaign rally outside Rochester, Joe Chenelly began reaching out to his military veterans' contacts. Chenelly is the executive director of AMVETS, one the largest veteran service organizations in the nation. His first outreach was to Monroe County's top veteran services official. In the parking lot near the campaign event stage — just across from the local VFW hall — the two men determined the system had failed Jakubonis, and they recognized their fellow veteran would need help. The events that followed took Jakubonis, a combat veteran who served in Iraq and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism, from a local courtroom to home, then a day later to a federal court and finally to jail. It was a journey that highlights the disparities between how the two criminal justice systems provide mental health treatment to someone accused of a crime." " War ignites between Gov. Kathy Hochul, NY judges over bail reform ," by New York Post's Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding: "Mayor Eric Adams' ongoing effort to roll back the state's bail reform law has sparked a war of words between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York's judges over who's to blame for the state's revolving-door justice system. In a highly unusual move Friday, a spokesman for New York's Office of Court Administration responded to Hochul's proposal Thursday to have the state pay for judges to get schooled on the controversial statute. 'Judges have received extensive training on the bail reform legislation, including all of its amendments,' spokesman Lucian Chalfen said." " Heart Failure: Medical Runaround Keeps Man Locked in State Prison Two Years After Being Paroled ," by The City's Reuven Blau: "When John Teixeria was moved to a nursing home in Queens Village after three decades in prison, he thought his time behind bars was finally at an end. 'When I first crossed the Throgs Neck Bridge, I said, 'It's over,'' Teixeria recalled of the trip in June 2021 during an interview via his legal team earlier this month back at Fishkill Correctional Facility. 'We pulled up, went inside, they introduced themselves to me.' Within minutes, a nurse at the Windsor Park Rehab and Nursing Center in Queens indicated there was a problem. Teixeria said the nursing home staffer told him the facility couldn't accommodate the cost of the medication regimen he needs for late-stage heart failure and refused to admit him. So the guards brought him back to Fishkill." " After Push by Hochul and Adams, an Increase in Court-Ordered Mental Health Treatment ," by Gotham Gazette's Ethan Geringer-Sameth: "According to state data, the number of people placed under court-ordered mental health treatment since April, when lawmakers expanded the court's power to make such determinations, has increased 60% from the same period a year before. The data, provided by the state Office of Court Administration (OCA) to Gotham Gazette after an inquiry, shows that during the four-month period from April through July, 462 people in New York were ordered by a judge to undergo mental health treatment under Kendra's Law, a 1999 statute that applies to people deemed a danger to themselves or others. During the same period last year, 288 such orders were issued statewide, including 127 — fewer than half the total — in New York City. In April through July of this year, a much larger share, two-thirds of all cases, or 320 orders, took place in New York City."
| | | | INTRODUCING POWER SWITCH: The energy landscape is profoundly transforming. Power Switch is a daily newsletter that unlocks the most important stories driving the energy sector and the political forces shaping critical decisions about your energy future, from production to storage, distribution to consumption. Don't miss out on Power Switch, your guide to the politics of energy transformation in America and around the world. SUBSCRIBE TODAY . | | | | | | | FROM THE DELEGATION | | " Dan Goldman pours $1 million of fortune into his House campaign ," by New York Post's Carl Campanile: "Levi Strauss & Co. heir Dan Goldman poured $1 million of his fortune into his congressional campaign ahead of the Aug. 23 Democratic primary, campaign records reveal. Goldman, the lead House lawyer during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump who is worth between $64 million and $253 million according to financial disclosure reports, is running in the newly drawn 10th Congressional District that takes in lower Manhattan and parts of brownstone and southwest Brooklyn." " Ethics complaint filed against Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney after Post's report on potential staff misuse ," by New York Post's Carl Campanile and Sam Raskin: "An ethics complaint has been filed against Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the House Democrats' campaign arm, over potential misuse of a staffer for personal services — after a Post report revealed an aide allegedly worked as the congressman's personal 'body man.' Elisa Sumner, the former chairwoman of the Dutchess County Democratic Party who is backing Maloney's rival Sen. Alessandra Biaggi in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary for the 17th congressional district, registered her complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics." " Rep. Jerrold Nadler leads Rep. Carolyn Maloney by 9 points in Manhattan House race: Emerson College poll ," by New York Daily News' Tim Balk: "Rep. Jerrold Nadler held a 9 percentage point lead over Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the feisty Democratic House race pitting the longtime Manhattan lawmakers, according to an opinion poll published Friday. The Emerson College poll, conducted ahead of Tuesday's TV debate and with key endorsements outstanding in the race, showed Nadler picking up 40% of the vote and Maloney scoring 31%."
| | AROUND NEW YORK | | — Former Assemblymember Pat Casale died at age 87 . — New York airports have had the most flight cancellations in the nation this summer. — The MTA is still struggling to staff trains and buses . — The number of NYPD officers leaving the department before qualifying for their full pension has jumped 71 percent this year . — Several people were arrested in a clash between pro- and anti-abortion rights protesters outside a Manhattan church. — The Storm King Art Center will undergo a $45 million expansion . — Spotted lanternflies are everywhere . — A Queens man was arrested at Rockaway Beach for swimming after hours. — Aaron Judge agreed to sign a baseball that hit a Brooklyn pizza shop owner in the head after he hit a home run. — Roughly 60 Staten Islanders and advocates marched against gun violence in Stapleton on Sunday.
| | SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY: White House chief of staff Ron Klain … Morning Brew's Josh Sternberg … CNN's Kylie Atwood … Virginia Heffernan ... ABC's Claire Brinberg ... CBS' Lance Frank ... DLA Piper's Jim Blanchard … Ben Heldman … (was Sunday): Robert Mueller … Axios' Jonathan Swan and Sara Fischer … CNN's Matt Dornic and Dan Merica … Commerce's Caitlin Legacki … Mary Kathryn Steel … Brian Steel of Vista Equity Partners and a CNBC alum … The Atlantic's Scott Stossel … MSNBC's Hollie Tracz … former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor … Marty Appel … Tyler Bradford … … (was Saturday): WSJ's Julie Bykowicz … CNN's Mike Melia … Mike Greenberg ... Joel Cohen … Steptoe's Elizabeth Burks … Michael Glennon … Deena Abu-Lughod … Neil Irwin … Krysia Lenzo … Cherie Paquette Gillan MAKING MOVES — Joan Vollero has been promoted to be SVP at communications consultancy Prosek Partners, where she focuses on special situations, including crisis and litigation support for class- and mass-action matters. ENGAGED — Brendon Earle, engagement manager for McKinsey and a former DOD staffer, on Friday proposed to Molly Erman, AVP of corporate digital content at L'Orèal USA and a New Yorker alum. The couple met over to-go drinks in June 2020 in NYC (arranged by Bumble), and he proposed two years later on a windy beach in Portugal. Pic WEDDING — Lauryn Higgins, a freelance journalist covering public health and a stringer for The New York Times covering the Midwest and Nebraska, recently married Sam Huss, a sales director for the consumer insights brand Numerator. The two met at a bar in Lincoln, Neb., when he told her he had season tickets to Nebraska football games, so she asked for his number. Pic
| | Real Estate | | " Coney Island amusement parks in jeopardy as lease deals are delayed ," by New York Post's Rich Calder: "A lease agreement ironed out last year to retain Coney Island's two biggest amusement parks still hasn't been approved — and now some stakeholders are questioning the fabled boardwalk's future. Last December, the City Council and outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio approved plans to extend leases for Luna Park and Deno's Wonder Wheel Park to operate on city land for another 10 years, running through 2037. But eight months later, the measure has yet to be heard by the Brooklyn Borough Board for what stakeholders thought would be a quick, rubber-stamp ratification." " Al Sharpton and landlord in dispute over National Action Network HQ rent, lease ," by New York Post's Bernadette Hogan and Carl Campanile : "Civil rights activist Al Sharpton is locked in a nasty dispute with his landlord over the Harlem building where his National Action Network headquarters are located, The Post has learned. The landlord/developer — Lenox By the Bridge LLC — has served a legal notice on Sharpton and NAN over rental payments and the lease at the building occupied by the social justice organization at 145th Street near Lenox Avenue, sources said. 'We are working with NAN and Rev. Sharpton to resolve whatever issues we need to address and will have no further comment,' Christopher Cobb, the lawyer for Lenox By the Bridge, told The Post." | | | | 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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