After close to a year on the Upper West Side, men are being moved out of The Lucerne Hotel this morning.
For the previous year, elected officials have shown up at almost every one of those press conferences supporting the hotel residents. But post-election, nobody’s here today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (There is a deputy public advocate representing Jumaane Williams’ office but that’s it)
“The Lucerne residents are not being moved as part of these back and forth legal challenges that you’ve heard about… the reason they’re being moved now is the city as a whole has decided to move everybody back to congregant shelters,” says Low of @UWSOpenHearts.
Re: no electeds here - there was also a goodbye party event last night that I’m told District 6 candidates Gale Brewer and Sara Lind showed up to.
AND Manhattan borough president candidate Lindsey Boylan just showed up this morning.
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Two sources with knowledge of the announcement tell me state Sen. John Liu, the first and only Asian-American elected citywide, will be endorsing Andrew Yang for mayor tomorrow morning.
“Major” Yang endorsement tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea. As much as I hope it’s the surviving members of Linkin Park, I guess I’ll guess... Brad Hoylman?
Team Hoylman, btw, says it is not Hoylman.
Also not Gale. A lot of folks speculating Liu in the DMs 👀
At @ABetterNY, @ScottMStringer not so artfully tries to connect Yang’s criticism of UFT with his spending time in New Paltz during the worst of the pandemic. “He clearly doesn’t understand what so many went through” and implied he doesn’t “show respect” for teachers.
Stringer accuses Yang of trying to “score cheap political points” on criticizing UFT and well... both teams are playing a game right now.
A source says @AndrewYang and @TwuSamuelsen just had lunch together, as the endorsement courtship continues between Yang and the transit workers union.
TWU President John Samuelsen turned some heads with his nice tweet about Yang last week. Would be quite a notable endorsement, since Yang hasn’t picked up any real labor support* yet.
*Yes, Yang was co-endorsed by the Freelancers Union, which is a (very-large!) union-like advocacy group in my understanding, but not an actual labor union.
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Has anyone done this yet? Can this be a thing?
The Notorious RBH endorses for mayor, and tries to get other county parties to join. bit.ly/30QI7tc