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So grateful and proud to have won two Emmy’s on Saturday night for our work on the migrant crisis.
Want to shoutout @DanKomarinetz and Dan Keese who worked so hard on our piece about one Venezuelan family’s journey to the US.
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Six takeaways from Queens' election results:
- AD23's ballot split
- Hochul won Paladino's district
- A Queens incumbent lost a street named after his father
+ more nerdy stuff
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.@NewYorkStateAG on @RepJeffries upcoming Speaker vote, Cornell investigation & SDNY ruling directing the city to turn over information to ICE on immigrant shelter residents & taxing the wealthy (didn’t really address*)
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In past/as recently as @NY1 debate, she said she wouldn’t raise income taxes — but today she didn’t double down on that
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NEW: @GovKathyHochul says she’ll “find a creative path” to fund childcare—ie payroll mobility tax hike & pied a terre for NYC budget—when asked if she’ll raise taxes on high earners.
Before Election Day was cagier on this. Now hinting @ tax hikes. Didn’t answer on spending cuts.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, who campaigned on no new taxes, tells reporters that she is open to new taxes “if there is a need.”
She also said a key area is universal childcare and a “path forward” will be announced at the State of the State.
She did not comment to cutting spending.
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Obtained by @NY1: at @GovKathyHochul reception this evening, NYS top reps from state and federal Dem delegation
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At the SOMOS conference in San Juan, PR — @FDNY Commissioner wouldn’t take questions about the Brooklyn fire that killed 6 & injured others.
Told us she wasn’t “doing press” about the fire but did take q’s earlier from PIX11/NYDN xitter.gq/rahhalemily/status/211…
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“I don’t want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything.”
President Donald Trump picked up a call from @DashaBurns on POLITICO Elections Live and talked to us about the blue wave and how he’s willing to work with incoming congressional Democrats.
Watch live now: politi.co/4AgCofb
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.@AdrienneEAdams is the lieutenant governor-elect and the first former city council speaker to be elected to anything after, breaking the curse
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“We just cleaned house. For all those naysayers who are always critiquing Brooklyn Dems, we have something for them,” a jubilant Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn says of the four Dems in southern Brooklyn who appear to have won their state legislative races. “We move forward.”
New: You might not know it watching the fractious Brooklyn Democratic Party wage war with itself, but the election looms just around the corner, bringing with it the opportunity for Dems to reclaim four state legislative seats in southern Brooklyn.
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Democrat Cait Conley urged voters in N.Y.’s 17th Congressional District to “not be dissuaded” by technical problems with voting machines. She told @KellyMena that every vote will be counted.
Conley, who is challenging Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in a closely watched race, said she is leaving the timeline to the Board of Elections and acknowledged that it may take until tomorrow to get a result.
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Voters in Westchester County told @KellyMena about casting their ballots on Election Day despite technical problems keeping voting machines from accepting ballots at polling sites across the district. The district is home to a closely watched congressional race in which Republican Rep. Mike Lawler faces Democrat Cait Conley.
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Darializa Avila Chevalier arrives at her Harlem polling place with staff and bf Ramzi Kassem (who is Mamdani’s chief counsel)
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A beggar in Queens knelt before a campaigning Governor Hochul and asked for $100. The two shook hands. She said she doesn’t have that kind of money on her, but her staff/volunteers gave him some cash.
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.@AOC & @NYCMayor say they’re getting into football (because of @GovKathyHochul ?) and the @BuffaloBills are their team outside Murphy’s in Astoria
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Inbox: In a letter to @SecMullinDHS, Mayor Zohran Mamdani says NYC will sue the Trump administration if ICE doesn't stop its "unlawful commandeering" of city-owned property for immigration enforcement operations.
