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On Sept. 26, 2024, the Southern District of New York unsealed indictment charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, including charges of bribery, corruption and campaign finance violations. Adams’ defense insists that no credible evidence exists for any of these charges, but recent public opinion surveys show that a majority of New York City residents believe Mayor Adams should resign in the wake of these allegations.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette reviews the charges against Mayor Adams and argues that politicians like Eric Adams shouldn’t be serving in politics in the first place.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Regardless of how we got here, there seems to be a consensus emerging among residents of New York City as to where things should go from here. According to a new poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, 69% of New Yorkers think Adams should resign. That includes 71% of Adams’s fellow Democrats and 59% of Black residents. Only 30% of respondents think the mayor should serve out the rest of his term.
In the various profiles and features of Adams that I’ve read in New York media, a picture emerges. It’s one that should be familiar to many Americans. We’ve seen it before. It’s the portrait of someone who grew up poor but ultra-ambitious and with an insatiable hunger to gather enough wealth to one day enjoy the finer things in life — dinners and expensive restaurants, nights in fine hotels, first-class flights to exotic places you’ve always wanted to visit but never thought you would, and all the rest that comes with the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Now, it’s great for someone to work hard his or her whole life and earn those sorts of nice things [sic] but, well, some people may think, if you have to trade for those things and pay them off with favors along the way, well, that’s okay, too. What matters, they say, is that you deserve the good life, or put another way, you’re entitled to it. So go ahead and grab it. People like that are all around us. They’re not wrong for wanting nice things. They have that right, but they should never go into politics as a way of obtaining those nice things. That’s where the problems start.
