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2 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Scoop from @ryangrim, @JohnBolgerNYC: Patricia Pastor, the attorney representing Scott Stringer's accuser Jean Kim, was the long-time, in-house counsel for a non-union construction firm that Stringer battled as comptroller: interc.pt/3pb6Dkk
Stringer won the endorsement of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York thanks to his advocacy for union labor at Hudson Yards: local3ibew.org/news/nyc-build…

laborpress.org/nyc-comptrolle…
Pastor's client is one of the non-union construction consortiums that developers at Hudson Yards were using to squeeze out union labor.
The non-union construction consortium faced myriad accusations of sexual harassment:
.@nywfp told @theintercept that they stand by their decision to withdraw their endorsement of Stringer because Stringer’s "response to the allegations ... made it impossible for us to elevate him as our champion over other progressives in the race.”

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2 Jun
Dianne Morales is asked about allegations of sexism and racism on her staff.

"I have been a successful manager and leader of organizations for decades … As soon as I became aware of the situation, I intervened," said Morales, who noted she fired the alleged offenders.
Stringer asked whether his accuser is a "liar," doesn't answer directly.

"I believe that women should be heard … and then facts kick in ... There have been inconsistencies and I deny the allegations."

Stringer even references new @theintercept piece: theintercept.com/2021/06/02/nyc…
Wiley is asked where she plans to save $1 billion in NYPD funding.

She says it's "bloated" and that she plans to "right-size" the department to have fewer cops ...
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2 Jun
Everywhere you go in NYC right now, there’s a mayoral candidate rally.

Rep. Tom Suozzi, Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, Councilman Peter Koo and others rally with Adams ahead of tonight’s debate.
He says he won’t hesitate to defend his record, later clarifying that that includes people claiming he supported stop and frisk (he considers it a legitimate tool that was being overused).
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While walking back from a dentist appointment, I stumbled on a Maya Wiley presser in Washington Square Park ...
... Allen Roskoff of @jimowles, which has endorsed Wiley announced that he wanted to speak about “crime,” then saying, “It’s a crime that New York City has never had a Black woman as mayor!”

Later, he adds, electing Wiley would be a great “fuck you” to Trump.
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26 May
Wow — moderator asks Va. LG candidate @Sam_Rasoul about his reliance Muslim donors from out of state (before adding that there’s nothing wrong with that).

“Can you assure Virginians that if you’re elected, you’ll represent all of them regardless of faith or beliefs?”
Rasoul is Virginia’s first Muslim lawmaker and if elected, would become the highest-ranking Palestinian-American in the country ...
... I broke news of @ewarren endorsing Rasoul a few weeks ago: huffpost.com/entry/elizabet…
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21 May
I re-booted my 2018 piece about George H.W. Bush's showdown with Israel in 1991. It now has updates for the current situation and quotes from @JoelMartinRubin, @jjz1600, @YousefMunayyer, and @_waleedshahid.

huffpost.com/entry/george-h…
First, the details of the story (originally reported out with help from @DanKurtzer and others):
--Bush secured Arab support for the first Gulf War, which ended Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, in part through assurances he'd also end Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands
Other key factors for what occurred:
--The Cold War had ended, and the U.S. was the sole superpower
--Israel needed massive loans to absorb ~1 million new immigrants from the former Soviet Union
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21 May
.@liamstack has a very interesting look at how Andrew Yang locked up the support of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn (and mainly the ultra-Orthodox or Haredi community).

nytimes.com/2021/05/21/nyr…
It was mainly his promise to take a hands-off approach to yeshivas.

Advocates comprised of people schooled in Haredi/Hasidic yeshivas, but often no longer in the fold, got the city to investigate the adequacy of the secular education.
The city has found a lack of adequate secular education at 26 out of 28 schools investigated.

Haredi leaders point out that that's a tiny fraction of all yeshivas and argue that failing public schools don't get the same scrutiny.
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