The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to declare the California capital a “sanctuary city for transgender people,” NBC News reports.
“The resolution, which takes effect immediately, ensures that no city resources will be used to criminalize trans people seeking transition-related care or to cooperate with jurisdictions seeking to enforce laws that criminalize the care elsewhere.”
“New York City Mayor Eric Adams pushed back Monday against newly detailed sexual assault allegations stemming from his time as a transit cop,” Politico reports.
“For now, at least, San Francisco can no longer be called a progressive city,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“Not after voters approved ballot measures Tuesday to loosen restrictions on the police and screen welfare recipients for drugs, while a measure to boost developers was leading and likely to pass.”
“Voters also backed a slate of moderates to run the local Democratic County Central Committee, whose endorsements could reshape who is elected in San Francisco for years. Four years ago, progressives won all but two seats on the DCCC.”
“FBI agents on Thursday searched two houses owned by a close aide to Mayor Eric Adams of New York,“ the New York Times reports.
“The searches of the properties owned by the aide, Winnie Greco, were part of an investigation being conducted with prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.”
New York Times: “If Mark Ferrell is successful in ousting London Breed again — this time through the action of voters, not of his fellow politicians — it will indicate that San Francisco has moved from the left to much more centrist politics.”
“That trend has already seemed apparent after the recalls of the city’s far-left school board members and its district attorney, as well as the elections of some moderate members of the Board of Supervisors.”
“Hours after a plane from Texas carrying 355 migrants arrived early Sunday morning in Rockford, Mayor Brandon Johnson repeated his plea for more federal support to address the ongoing migrant crisis,” the Chicago Sun Times reports.
“After landing, the passengers were put on eight buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott… The buses dropped the migrants in the surrounding suburbs, and they are now making their way to Chicago via trains and other means.”
“The mayors of New York, Chicago and Denver said a nonending flow of migrants arriving from the southern border has pushed their cities to the breaking point heading into the New Year, as border crossings swell and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott keeps finding new ways to torment his Democratic rivals,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Abbott, a Republican who began sending migrants on buses to other states in spring 2022, doubled down on the strategy in recent weeks. He sent his first planeloads of migrants to Chicago and New York in part to flout regulations on where and when bus operators can drop off the migrants.”
“Rudy Giuliani, who filed for bankruptcy in the wake of a $148 million civil court ruling and faces a mountain of unpaid legal bills, said he now regrets not having the safety net of a government pension,” the New York City reports.
When asked why he never applied for a pension, Giuliani said: “Giving back to the city I love. Although I would like to take it now.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) padded the city payroll with 293 “special assistants” during his first full fiscal year in office — a more than 20% increase over his predecessor Bill de Blasio, the New York Post reports.
Two of them tied for the largest salaries out of any of Adams’ aides, earning $246,898 each.
“As Saudi Arabia sought to rehabilitate its image after decades of bad-for-business headlines about 9/11 hijackers, alleged police torture, public beheadings and the gruesome murder of a Washington Post journalist, the regime turned to an unlikely ally for PR and networking assistance: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R),” the Miami Herald reports.
“As a bonus, he was also able to significantly benefit a major client of the international law firm that pays him more than $1 million a year.”
An official, on behalf of Boston’s mayor, mistakenly sent all city councilors an email inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “electeds of color,” prompting an apology and mixed reactions, the Boston Herald reports.
The body includes seven white councilors and six of color.
A new Quinnipiac poll in New York City finds Mayor Eric Adams (D) with an upside down 28% to 58% job approval rating — the lowest job approval rating for a New York City mayor in the history of the poll.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has been accused of sexual assault in a legal action filed Wednesday night in a New York court, The Messenger reports.
ABC New York says the incident allegedly occurred in 1993.
An aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) told colleagues to “delete” their text exchanges hours after the FBI raided her New Jersey home, the New York Daily News reports.
“The mayor of a small town in suburban New Jersey who was recorded four years ago using racial slurs and saying he would never hire a female police officer was charged on Monday with two unrelated crimes linked to his private landscaping business,” the New York Times reports.
Sal Bonaccorso (R) “was charged with official misconduct and accused of using his township offices and Clark employees to help run his private landscaping and oil tank removal business. Additionally, he is charged with forging an engineer’s signature on permit applications to remove underground storage tanks.”
Politico: “These revelations — uncovered through a Politico review of thousands of pages of public schedules from his time as borough president and reams of social media posts — shed light on Adams’ unusually strong relationship with Turkey, which has drawn scrutiny from federal investigators.”
On the same day that an FBI team searched the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) key fundraiser, other agents were raiding two other homes belonging to people with ties to the embattled mayor, the New York Times reports.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.