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| Adams backs Heastie despite speaker opposing charters, bail reform |
| 2023-03-30 |
| [NYPOST] Because politix is politix. Mayor Eric Adams praised Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie Wednesday — despite a new Post poll showing the power broker’s opposition to expanding city charter schools and rolling back the state’s lenient bail law goes against voters in his own Bronx district. "The speaker, I find the speaker to be extremely conscientious," Adams said when asked about the McLaughlin & Associates survey, which found that 68% of likely voters in Heastie’s district — which covers the neighborhoods of Williamsbridge, Eastchester and Wakefield — support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal to remove the cap on charters in the city and expand them statewide. "I think he has served his constituency well," Adams went on. "He has been serving for several years. He served when I was there. I had a great meeting when I was in Albany with him and I think he’s a great politician." However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Hizzoner grew noticeably silent when a Post news hound followed up: "Why would he go against the will of his voters in this case? That was the question." The poll also found that most respondents said that crime was the issue they were most concerned about, with 57% favoring Hochul’s proposal to allow judges to use greater discretion when it comes to setting bail for dangerous suspects. Heastie or his caucus’ campaign committee have received nearly $1.5 million in donations from powerful teachers’ unions, which oppose the publicly-funded, privately-run schools that have proliferated in the five boroughs and been credited for increased test scores among minority students while operating at a fraction of the cost of public schools. The speaker has also repeatedly claimed that crime is also up in states with no bail reform while stating his opposition to changing the controversial 2019 measure, which eliminated cash bail in all but the most serious criminal cases as a way to prevent impoverished defendants from languishing on Riker’s Island ahead of their trials. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Jails are for political prisoners not for proles. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-30 10:04 |