BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Mayor Eric Adams threw
his support behind Letitia
James on Sunday in her reelection
bid for State Attorney
General.
Adams’ support for James
comes after the mayor dined
with disgraced ex-Governor
Andrew Cuomo, who was
rumored to be considering
a run for AG, but the former
head-of-state’s team said he
isn’t interested in the state’s
top prosecutor’s office.
“Attorney General Letitia
James has distinguished
herself nationally through
her successful fights for justice,
but she never lost the
get stuff done attitude that
embodies her hometown
Brooklyn,” said Adams in a
statement on Feb. 13.
Hizzoner cited James’s
fight against pharmaceutical
giants over the state’s
opioid epidemic and her
prosecutions against gun
makers as reasons for his
support of the fellow Democrat
from Brooklyn.
State Attorney General Letitia
James. File photo Mayor Eric Adams. File photo
“She has the courage and
experience to stand up to
anyone who breaks the law
and harms vulnerable people,
no matter how powerful
they may be,” so Adams. “I
am proud to endorse Attorney
General James for reelection
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Yorkers to join me supporting
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James decided to run
again for her current seat after
dropping out of the governor’s
race in December.
Cuomo has been eyeing
a political comeback after
he resigned in August
due to mounting sexual harassment
allegations by 11
women detailed in an explosive
investigation by
James’s office.
The former governor denied
any wrongdoing.
He told Bloomberg that
he felt “vindicated” after
five district attorneys in the
state decided not to prosecute
him, even though four
of them said in public statements
that the allegations
were credible.
Adams was caught having
dinner with Cuomo at a
Midtown restaurant on Feb.
1, reported Page Six, and the
mayor defended the meeting
saying they talked about
“governance not politics.”
Longtime Cuomo spokesman
Rich Azzopardi told the
Daily News Thursday that
the former governor did not
intend to run for AG, a seat
he previously held before he
was elected governor in 2010.
Cuomo is still sitting on
more than $16 million in
campaign cash, but James
has been consolidating
critical supporters in New
York’s political scene, including
most recently getting
the endorsements from
two inf luential unions last
week, 1199 SEIU United
Healthcare Workers East
and 32BJ SEIU.
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Mayor Adams endorses Letitia James for AG re-election bid
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