The Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, former police officer Eric Adams, always walks armed with a smile, confident in himself and ready to tell a personal anecdote to illustrate the failures of the system that he promises to solve if in the elections next November the new councilor of the Big Apple is elected.
The first public act of this moderate democrat after being confirmed as the winner of his party has been to participate this Wednesday in the first major parade organized by the city since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic to pay tribute to frontline workers .
“I have learned so much being out there among them with their daily interactions, doing their job,” the current president of the Brooklyn district told EFE, who whenever the opportunity presents itself takes the opportunity to remember the years in which he worked as an agent of policeman.
He did it this Tuesday, when he proclaimed his victory saying: “I grew up poor in Brooklyn and Queens and I wore a bulletproof vest to keep my neighbors safe.”
And he also did it during the election night of June 22, before the loyal fans who celebrated in a Brooklyn nightclub the first provisional results that placed him as the favorite for victory.
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“When you have worn a bulletproof vest for 22 years and you have seen children wake up by the shots of bullets and not by an alarm clock and you have seen mothers teaching their children how to get under cover (…) you know that is normality for many communities, “Adams said then.
And it is that Adams focused a large part of the campaign on the fight against the rampant increase in violence, which, as revealed by several polls carried out during the electoral race, became the first concern of the voters, above unemployment, the healthcare, housing, education or even covid-19.
But this 60-year-old African-American, a state senator between 2007 and 2013 and who has governed the Brooklyn district since 2014, has also sought the affinity of the most disadvantaged communities by trying to identify with them.
“My mother (who died during the electoral campaign) was betrayed (by the authorities), like other parents and families. She was betrayed when we could not buy food and we went in search of food that the city offered us and that was it was about food that caused chronic diseases (…), “Adams said immediately after exercising his right to vote on June 22, an idea that he has repeated in numerous pulpits.
His moderate ideas and his speech seeking to identify with those most in need have served to unseat both the centrist aspirants, such as the former director of the Department of Sanitation Kathryn García, who has remained 8,000 votes from victory, as well as the most progressive , case of lawyer Maya Wiley, who proposed withdrawing funds from the police in line with movements such as Black Lives Matter (the lives of blacks matter).
It also served to attract important figures from the Democratic Party in the city, such as Latino congressman Adriano Espaillat or the presidents of the Bronx counties, Rubén Díaz Jr., and that of Queens, Donovan Richards.
Support that also contributed to forging the support of the important community of Latino origin, as reflected in the support announced by several of the main publications in Spanish.
The sharp criticisms launched by his opponents, who recalled the corruption cases opened against him and from which he was acquitted, were useless; his alleged defense of aggressive detention methods, which he denies; or his habit of supposedly spending much of his time in a residence in the neighboring state of New Jersey and not in the city.
Today, while still savoring his recent victory over his fellow ranks, he wanted to take a mass bath during the first major parade that the city celebrates without masks.
“It is time to pay tribute to frontline workers, there is a long time ahead to talk about the elections,” Adams assured Efe today, that in November the Mayor’s Office will be played against Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, in an election in those who all bets mark him as the winner, given the weight of the Democratic electorate in the Big Apple.
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