Judge Dale Ho made the right call to permanently fall for corruption against mayor Eric Adams.
Hizzoner clearly suffered a personal moral hit of this test; He even announced that he had stopped reading the newspapers to help him cope.
But now he can tend to take care of the city matters And Worf a full-throttle re-election campaign in no cloud that hangs over him.
About time.
The case had to be withdrawn clearly: as the Ministry of Justice noticed, it smelled of “inappropriate” by Biden officers of justice, who only charged Adams after He criticized the immigration policy of their administration.
The case has also “wrongly disrupted” with the re -election campaign of Adams And Hamstung him in doing his work.
But so the Trump The prosecutors’ plan to retain the right to fulfill the charges later: the enemies of Adams have been ruthless to accuse that leaving things in the Limbo is obliged to always jump when the Prez said ‘Frog’.
Moreover, the change in the White House cannot really remove that original political blemish.
So Ho did well with following up the recommendation of external adviser Paul Clement and completely killed the matter.
All that said: if the case was intended as a political hit, it is edited.
It has caused great damage to Adams, closed his reputation and encourage former GOV. Andrew Cuomo to enter the race, despite his former promises not to be the mayor too primarily.
He not only waived campaigns, he has not seriously not disputed the decision of the campaign funding board to keep public matching funds from his campaign.
It did not help that HE took time: it was two months ago that prosecutors tried to drop the case, and a month since Clement advised to completely kill it.
At present, the best hope for re -election of Adams can be carried out as independent. Voices to make the democratic primary vote are due to Thursday, the day after HO finally ruled; The mayor has little money for a battle against Cuomo and the rest of the peloton – and, as he said before, he did not leave his party, it left him.
In the meantime, he has to break along to recover the trust of the public to do his work.
And some of his misery are of course; The NYPD saw several scandals on his watch, too many of them with his chosen leadership team.
Nevertheless, Adams’ decision was to lead Jessica Tisch about the armed forces a huge step in the direction of the ship’s rectification.
Tisch is already making impressive profit against crime: murders in the first quarter of this year 35% dropped versus 2024. Shooting parties have fallen by 23%.
Adams must keep it up:
- Rent proven professionals, not among qualified friends, for key positions.
- Reduce difficult About progressives that try to protect violent illegal migrants.
- Closed with the border and emptying hotels of migrants, focus on stimulating companies, repairing tax responsibility, improving schools, speeches the speeches on the street.
If Adams hopes to serve the city well, let alone being re -elected, he must start showing the focused energy that he won the job in the first place.
Plus: you probably have to start reading the papers again, sir. . . At least the one who counts.
