Governor Kathy Hochul has the power to remove Eric Adams. She would be in uncharted territory. But he can't be recalled and he is not required to resign.
Governor Kathy Hochul has the power to remove Eric Adams. She would be in uncharted territory. But he can't be recalled and he is not required to resign.
If the question is "Will Kathy Hochul do something good?" the answer is "no".
You can make it even more widely applicable and just make that any elected dem in the entire state.
Bit idea: Keep electing increasingly more corrupt assholes until there is literally nothing left of Western society
The leaders of Western society have been corrupt assholes since day one, and the whole miserable project keeps trundling along anyway.
Only problem is that, in doing so, violence against marginalized people will go through the roof. If you think that America’s going to go down easy, it ain’t. It will go down kicking and screaming, bringing back slavery and genocide (………….). It will go back to bombing its own citizens again and corporations will have the military to protect them.
What we need is someone to stand up to us. And win.
Though that will also cause untold death, destruction and suffering.
…… Seems to me like the violence and suffering is inevitable.
Ok, I agree with you. lmao
Or the new york version, how far to the right can somebody be and still win because they called themselves a dem in a statewide race.
God I love how much of American government processes depends on some Gentlemen's Agreement type of b.s. and how rapidly everything comes crashing to a halt when some openly corrupt crank enters the scene... who should have never been allowed to even run by the establishment, but was instead granted a wave of institutional support to foreclose upon a populist left movement.
fucking genius strategic plan, liberals. by fetishizing the process, you only expose and broadcast it's fatal flaws.
If the dems were smart - they'd seriously twist his arm to force him to resign.
The New York City Charter gives Gov. Kathy Hochul the power to remove him. But the process would be complicated.
Under the charter, Ms. Hochul, who had not commented on the indictment as of late Wednesday, could suspend Mr. Adams for up to 30 days and then remove him “after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.”
That is where New Yorkers would be entering uncharted territory. A governor has not exercised such powers in recent memory. The closest precedent occurred in 1931, when Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt held 14 days of hearings into the misconduct of Mayor Jimmy Walker, who eventually resigned in 1932 before going to Europe.
