Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday he supports a controversial bill to allow hundreds of thousands of non-citizens living in New York City to participate in local elections.
Adams said in a statement he has and will continue to support the measure despite initially having “some concerns.”
The City Council approved the “Our City, Our Vote” measure in December, despite concerns from more than a dozen lawmakers, former Mayor Bill de Blasio and some constitutional experts.
The bill granted approximately 800,000 legal, non-citizen residents — such as green card holders and recipients of deferred action — the right to vote in municipal contests, but not state or federal elections.
“I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation,” Adams said in a statement Saturday.
“While I initially had some concerns about one aspect of the bill, I had a productive dialogue with my colleagues in government that put those concerns at ease. I believe allowing the legislation to be enacted is by far the best choice, and look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process,” the Democrat continued.
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And the dumbocrats call the Jan 6th riots at the white house "the biggest threat to our democracy". This law is it. But of course, dumbocrats never know or admit when their laws or bills are destructive. What a bunch of hypocrites.
“I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation,” Adams said in a statement Saturday.
New Yorkers did have a say in it when they VOTED "NO" for this piece of garbage when we voted. So I guess OUR voices weren't heard?
So whats the point of citizenship anymore? The privilege to serve on jury duty? Illegals have more rights now then citizens.
Less than two weeks into his Rank Choice term and he has become been a complete failure !
Imagine being so lame that you actually voted for this dope.
This looks like reverse racism. It is extremely sickening.
Another example of “go woke go broke”.
NYC will be a 100% Shitehole by the end of his term.
So tell me, how are they going to parse this during State and Federal elections? When Jose and Ling Ping and Abduhl the non-citizens go in to vote, they'll be allowed into the booth because there are local races. What will stop them from voting for the other races they're not "supposed" to vote in?
Answer: nothing whatsoever will stop them. There will be no possible way to parse out their votes. The Democrat party screams all day long about "fighting for democracy" when what they mean in the exact opposite.
Well that’s that. he’s a traitor
#Automourn for NYC Citizens!
These non-citizens will vote for their own self interest/more "Free" handouts.
Essential Meaning of citizen:
1: a person who legally belongs to a country and has the rights and protection of that country.
The Sheeple first gave them IDNYC cards, EBT cards then NYS Driver ID's !
Do you think they will stop with non-citizen voting rights ?
Next up is your property rights....
RIP NYC !
NYC Marxist Politics is but a steering mechanism taking the Sheeple to the iceberg that will sink NYC 4-Ever !
To Anonymous New Yorkers did have a say in it when they VOTED "NO" for this piece of garbage when we voted. So I guess OUR voices weren't heard?
Can you give me the date of the vote on that referendum, please? I just cannot find it.
For all readers: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/psm/upload/NonCitizenFinal.pdf
"So whats the point of citizenship anymore? The privilege to serve on jury duty?"
They have to serve jury duty? They know about this?
Citizenship means nothing in this banana republic anymore-except to be oppressed by criminally insane politicians.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Another example of “go woke go broke”.
NYC will be a 100% Shitehole by the end of his term.
You mean it's not already there after Bloomberg and Dumblasio?
Anonymous said...
Well that’s that. he’s a traitor
Being a Commiecrat automatically qualified him for such status.
Eric's greatest accomplishment so far is showing people how great Trump was.
Theres a party of politicians who oppose voter integrity, voter I.D. and secure elections. Just let that sink in.
Never forget: the Democrat idea of democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
As a European I'm amazed the USA doesn't have voter ID. Why?
We know that state legislatures have the power over elections, but are there things they are not allowed to do? I think about NYC where the new passed a bill that allows non-citizens to vote in local elections. Would the federal govt be able to step in and nullify that as it could affect the country as a whole?
Right Wing Nut says...
Everyone at a polling and voting location needs to wear a body camera....just like the cops.
Only people that are alive can vote right ?
Did Eric say, “What’s this country coming to when a DemOrat can’t even rig an election?”
NPC, are immigrants with European sounding names OK with you? Do you just not like Latino, Asian, and Arab immigrants? You didn't mention Tomas Zomeski as a name that would bother you, or Larry O'Leary, or Francois Lemeiux.
They have to serve jury duty? They know about this?
They cannot George. One cannot be in the jurors' box and be accused at the same time.
Well done Eric. You da man.
This doesn't go far enough. We need to let tourists vote.
Anon #2, you did vote no, but there were more people who voted yes. That's how elections work.
This guarantees that the entire state will be run by less than a dozen zip codes in 3 boroughs. As NPC points out, no way to keep em from voting the whole ticket
Is NYC's New Mayor WORSE than de Blasio?
Hiring or electing a DemOrat to make anything better or fix something is like letting blind people drive taxi cabs in NYC or having AOC teach us about the dangers of Covid-19.
Prove Me Wrong...
Only in NY, could Cuomo and DiBlasio be replaced with Hochul and Adam’s.
Rome/NYC has opened its doors to the barbarians.
This is how the Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are destroying the idea of America !
American citizenship as we have known it will soon vanish.
Open borders = more Dem votes !
Just another way for white liberals to take a dump on the black community
Democrats 2016: "Trump colluded with Russia! We must stop foreign influence over our elections!"
Democrats 2022: "We should allow non-citizens to vote in elections."
Not sure if this falls under irony, hypocrisy, or stupidity.
New York: Non-citizen's are allowed to vote!
Also New York: You must show proof of vaccination AND an ID in order to go grocery shopping!
When John Lennon said imagine there's no country, a lot of people thought it was a sweet vision of peace. What foolishness....
So if non citizens can vote in New York can I then legally just take a day trip to NYC and vote in their elections even if I don't live there? How could they punish someone who wasn't supposed to vote if they have no restrictions?
As went Rome, so goes NYC. That light glimmering from the top of Adam's head indicates that the lights' on up there but nobody's home. Read history, you idiot!
If these non-citizen new voters don't have to serve on a jury, and citizen voters do, seems to me there's some kind of inequality here. Maybe legal grounds for striking all this stuff down?
Also, in an election where there are federal state, and city offices in play, how does the ballot look? The non-citizen who's only eligible to vote in municipal elections gets a separate ballot at the polling site? And do they get to vote on propositions?
All 47 countries in Europe and Canada and Mexico have photo ID required for voting. Mexico has a photo and a thumb print and when voting indelible ink is applied to prevent voting twice. Also, all have more restrictions on absentee voting than US. In Mexico absentee voting is prohibited. Even Obama stated that mail in voting is ripe for fraud, but the Democrats keep saying how undemocratic the Republicans are for trying to make elections fraud free. Voting should be fair and square and for citizens.
Anonymous said...
New York: Non-citizen's are allowed to vote!
Also New York: You must show proof of vaccination AND an ID in order to go grocery shopping!
When John Lennon said imagine there's no country, a lot of people thought it was a sweet vision of peace. What foolishness....
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Thank God for Antifa battling all this REAL fascism LOLLLLLLLL!
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
We did get fooled again.
Apologies to Pete Townshend.
If you really want to know how much the dem politicians respect the voting populace click on link below and listen to the first minute when Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she intends to ignore the will of the voting public and overturn proposals passed in November. So much for voting in NY State. We tell Albany what we want and the legislature tells us to go F*ck ourselves.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2022/01/11/andrea-stewart-cousins-on-the-push-to-expand-voting-rights#
PART One:
What did you expect from choices made by poor, impoverished DemonRat-brainwashed people of color when they voted in this anarchist? After all, didn't he just show everyone what a loose, completely unqualified cannon that he is when he appointed a corrupt politician (not public servant) like Eric Ulrich from QUEENS, to be his senior adviser——the same criminally insane scourge who left his entire district of Ozone Park in a horrifying, unaccountable state of economic collapse (without representation, much less any face-to-face appointments at his crony/nepotism office), and resembling worse than a Third World Banana Republic.
If that debacle of public trust failure wasn't enough, then this empowered idiot appoints his little brother to a $240K position on his padded payroll——WITHOUT the required waiver procedures that should instantly rescind both Adams, Jr. and Ulrich combined.
So, where is the New York City Department of Personnel to vet these profoundly unqualified hustlers and social climbing predators and opportunists? Where was the city to make official determinations for actual job qualifications? When I was appointed my civil service title, my paperwork FIRST had to be processed through the NYC Department of Personnel to ensure that all job qualifications were correctly satisfied.
The appointment of Adams' kid brother without city personnel purview to legitimize any and all city appointments actually nullifies the entire process of applied meritocracy, made only worse that extreme nepotism is involved. Taking Bernard Adams on before getting Conflicts of Interest Board approval for the rogue hire drew criticism from government watchdog 'Common Cause New York.'
❝In most instances, I would expect that a request for a waiver would be done in advance of the person taking the position,❞ the group's executive director, Susan Lerner told the New York Daily News on Monday, January 10, 2022. ❝We certainly don't want a government that operates by 'I'd rather ask for forgiveness than permission,' because that is LAWLESS,❞ she added.
And sadly, once again, we have a lawless body of KNOWINGLY corrupt city officials, all of whom have no intention to follow law and order; in fact they don't live by any rules at all——they make their own (à la de BLASS-hole, Bloomberg who served an illegal third term, and Giuliani), and the ever languishing public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed and damned.
What? THIS IS NEW???
❝Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless and corrupt.❞ ——Mahatma Gandhi
❝Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.❞ ——John Adams
❝Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
We could put Democrats in exhibits, behind glass, watching white political bosses chomp cigars and pass out goodies for votes, as minorities were relegated, as they are today, to failing schools and lost educational oppportunities, and neighborhoods that have become killing fields for the young and old.
And in the great museums, the Democrats could be studied, safely, without endangering the sensibilities of the children.❞ ——George Orwell, '1984'
#GOP2024 #ImpeachBiden
NPC, are immigrants with European sounding names OK with you? Do you just not like Latino, Asian, and Arab immigrants? You didn't mention Tomas Zomeski as a name that would bother you, or Larry O'Leary, or Francois Lemeiux.
Nah, speak for yourself. You like the rest, especially when they bomb the WTC or fly airplanes into the WTC. murdering a few thousand innocent people.
This is your level on mental derangement, you need help pal. Big time.
When I read the George Orwell quote, above that was left by a very astute, highly educated 'Anonymous,' I laughed heartily at our slave masters, the DemonRats, who treat ALL of We, the People as the 'darkies' whose hard work they tax to pay their never-ending graft, grist and corruption——made exponentially worse by the arrogance and contempt that they have continually imposed and held against you and me: Time to break our chains, Niggas (slavery didn't END in 1865——it EVOLVED!).
Further, in 1971, the Lewis Powell memorandum will tie all knots and connect all dots ... another version of this kind of hostile takeover of government occurred by force in 1913 with the robber barons, big industry and the military-industrial complex.
With Woodrow Wilson leading the way in the creation of the Fed and the Central Banking System ... this is what created the biggest economic downturn in our country's history: Boom and Bust is back, peons, ONLY benefitting the top end ... these are the rapacious and predatory extracting and extortion tools used by the entrenched, hyper-corrupt, establishment-rigged, and diabolically evil and depraved 'Monetary Locusts' that swarmed above over We, the People's rights, freedoms and liberties with a vengeful impunity that remains unprecedented, to date.
Ya mean, it weren't about muh freedom? YEAH——freedom from living!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-statues-democrats-kass-0...
❝If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.❞ ——George Orwell
❝The truth that survives is the lie that is pleasantest to believe.❞ ——H. L. Mencken
❝We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.❞ ——Benito Mussolini
❝Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.❞ ——James Connolly, War Upon The German Nation (1914)
❝The media have become the propaganda arm of the very wealthy.❞ —Brian Eno
All tyrannies get into power by either fraud or force. The fraud "vote for me I"ll set you free". When the fraud is exposed, they must rely on force.
Nah, speak for yourself. You like the rest, especially when they bomb the WTC or fly airplanes into the WTC. murdering a few thousand innocent people.
This is your level on mental derangement, you need help pal. Big time.
I didn't get a word of that. Go stand outside City Hall with Paladino with your tinfoil hat.
The Marxist are adding to the already implemented voting schemes that would absolutely destroy the sanctity and safety of all U.S. elections. They will federalize the voting process and remove all state and local control.
Prove Me Wrong...
Our constitutional Republic is on life support.
Hey New Yorkers, do you need some lube?
Eric Adams...going in dry and doesn't even have the courtesy to give a reach around.
Once again voting for the Democrats and expecting a different outcome.
Eric Adams is a democrat ! So what did you expect ?
Hard as it is to believe, all the other DemOrat candidates were even Krazier than Adams.
Born and raised in NYC and can't wait to move out...
Press 2 for English, only in America !
Don't forget Eric Adams ran on being tough on crime, and now he's endorsing making armed robbery a misdemeanor.
I guess soon the rest of the good Tax Paying people in NYC are going to move out.
Where will the bloated NYC budget get funding ?
@"NPC, are immigrants with European sounding names OK with you?"
Don't you know that NPC doofus is 100% Native American. His tribe, the Doofuses(incorrectly referred to as Doofii) settled in Queens long before Jesus and his buddies discovered Utah. Chief Sitting Doofus was renowned for his valor in talking shite, long before Columbus discovered that the Dominican Republic was already there.
Is this Green ? Desegregation and busing Kids that walk to school now is stupid.
NYC school district braces for another classroom diversity tussle !
https://nypost.com/2022/01/12/nyc-school-district-braces-for-another-classroom-diversity-tussle/
Corruption & Disfunction the NYC way !
Why do Sheeple accept "corruption" and "dysfunction" in U.S. Democratic Cities and see it as "inevitable" when other systems that are more authoritarian offer better safety and "things simply get done" such as infrastructure projects for the public good ?
@Don't you know that NPC doofus is 100% Native American. His tribe, the Doofuses(incorrectly referred to as Doofii) settled in Queens long before Jesus and his buddies discovered Utah. Chief Sitting Doofus was renowned for his valor in talking shite, long before Columbus discovered that the Dominican Republic was already there.
Truly amazing what my tax money is used for. Producing halfwit communists and mentally deranged nutjobs. You go boy. Spread your wisdom.
Are the right wing nuts on your bike doing OK?
Just asking, apparently you are not.
@I didn't get a word of that. Go stand outside City Hall with Paladino with your tinfoil hat.
Of course you didn't. You weren't even alive commie.
Not sure who Paladino is, but if you have a problem with Paladino must mean Paladino is OK.
Now go vape some CCP fentanyl and entertain your commie friends with your stupidity.
41 million "Americans" rely on SNAP benefits ! (Food Stamps)
Are they going to vote for more free stuff ?
Another George Soros financed protege ?
Paladino is more than OK, she's great! The Libs hate her because she's a Republican and speaks her mind. Reminds me of somebody else they hate!
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