Who are they
endorsing?
Rep. Nydia Velazquez endorses
Tahirah Moore for City Council
Rep. Nydia Velazquez on May 12 endorsed
Tahirah Moore to represent New York City
Council’s 36th District.
“Tahirah is
the fi ghter that we
need for the people
of Bed-Stuy and
Crown Heights,”
Velazquez said in
a statement. “She
was born and raised
in Marcy Houses,
which is in my congressional
district.
She knows the community.
Her values,
Tahirah Moore.
Courtesy of campaign
personal integrity,
and government experience are exactly what
our community needs and deserves. Tahirah
is a dedicated public servant and gets the real
results the people in our district need.”
Moore is one of six candidates — and the
only woman — vying to represent District 36,
which spans the neighborhoods of Bedford-
Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.
Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz
endorses Jo Anne Simon for BP
Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz on
May 11 endorsed Assemblymember Jo Anne
Simon for Brooklyn
Borough President,
lauding her advocacy
and work to
help pass groundbreaking
legislation
on COVID-19 relief,
education equity,
and tenant protection
initiatives.
“I know Jo Anne
Simon to be a fi erce
champion for every
Brooklynite — both
as a legislative partner
Jo Anne Simon.
Courtesy of campaign
and a community
advocate — and I’m pleased to endorse
her to become our next Borough President,”
said Cymbrowitz, who represents the neighborhoods
of Sheepshead Bay, Midwood,
Manhattan Beach, Gravesend and Brighton
Beach. “As a disability rights lawyer
and experienced legislator, she will fi ght for
all of us and lead Brooklyn’s recovery post-
COVID.”
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It’s still wide open
Many New Yorkers undecided in latest mayoral poll
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Democrats in heavily-blue
New York City are potentially selecting
the city’s next mayor in a
primary just six weeks away. But
the latest poll on the race suggests
that nearly a quarter of all voters
have no idea who to vote for
— and the contest itself remains
wide open.
The Emerson College/PIX11
News poll found that not one of the
13 Democrats running for mayor
had support greater than 20 percent.
An astonishing 23 percent of
all those surveyed said they were
undecided on their choice in the
June 22 primary.
Brooklyn Borough President
Eric Adams leads the entire fi eld
with 18 percent, followed by City
Comptroller Scott Stringer and
entrepreneur Andrew Yang —
each of whom polled at 15 percent.
That marks a stunning reversal
from a Siena College/NY1 poll released
in April which found Yang
on top with 24 percent of voters,
followed by Adams and Stringer,
both of whom polled at 13 percent.
The poll had 26 percent of voters
either undecided or unaffi liated.
The Emerson/PIX11 poll
quizzed 631 Democrats between
May 13-15, two weeks after a former
Stringer intern, Jean Kim,
came forward with allegations
that he made unwanted sexual advances
toward her back in 2001 —
something which the comptroller
vehemently denied. Nevertheless,
it cost him the support of numerous
high-profi le progressives.
If anything, the poll found
that the scandal did little to dent
Stringer’s support among New
Yorkers; his support actually
grew from 6 percent in an Emerson/
PIX11 poll conducted in
March to 15 percent in May.
Former city Sanitation Commissioner
Kathryn Garcia
checked in fourth in the primary
poll at 8 percent, while nonprofi t
executive Dianne Morales — who
benefi tted from some progressives
who defected from Stringer
— garnered just 6 percent. Former
Housing and Urban Development
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams led the fi eld in a recent Emerson College/
PIX11 News poll of the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary with 18 percent of the
respondents’ support. But the same survey found 23 percent of voters were still
undecided about the contest. Photo by Dean Moses
Secretary Shaun Donovan
had 5 percent, while former Citicorp
executive Ray McGuire and
civil rights attorney Maya Wiley
each garnered 4 percent.
The Emerson/PIX11 poll
also went deeper in assessing
how the contest — which will be
done through ranked-choice voting
for the fi rst time in the city’s
history — would play out when
votes are counted. Poll participants
were asked to rate their top
three choices in the contest; the
pollsters then simulated how the
vote count might shake out as the
votes are counted in rounds, and
the candidate with the least support
eliminated after each round.
The poll projects that it may
take up to nine rounds of vote
counting before a candidate
emerges with the required 50 percent
plus 1 vote majority of support.
At the end of the Emerson/
PIX 11 simulation, Adams was
the last candidate standing, projected
to win the nomination with
52.6 percent over Yang, who garnered
47.4 percent.
Regarding the issues most
important to the voters, the Emerson/
PIX 11 poll found that
homelessness led the way, with
20 percent of respondents ranking
it as the top priority for the
next mayor. That was followed by
housing (19 percent), jobs (12 percent),
healthcare (11 percent) and
education/schools (10 percent).
Interestingly, police reform
— a major topic in city and national
politics since the George
Floyd murder last May — ranked
as the top issue among only 9 percent
of those surveyed. The poll
also found that 53 percent of all
respondents had a positive view
of the NYPD, but Emerson/PIX11
pointed out that “metric varies
largely by race”; a combined 61
percent of white voters and 61
percent of Latino voters had a
positive view of the NYPD, while
33 percent of Black voters viewed
the department favorably.
A vast majority of all respondents
also expressed concern over
safety in the city’s subways —
which has led to sparring between
the MTA and Mayor Bill de Blasio
amid a rash of recent crime in the
transit system. Seventy-nine percent
of those surveyed said they
were “very concerned” or “somewhat
concerned” about whether
they or someone they love would
become a victim of crime in the
subway system.
The poll, which was conducted
through a cellphone sample of
SMS-to-web data and an online
panel, has a margin of error of +/-
3 percent.
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