As the June primary nears, the race for Mayor gets crowded.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, like every Sunday morning, Governor David Pattison is with us to give us some common sense of what’s going on in our city, our state, our country. Governor, what’s on your mind on this Sunday morning.

0:14 Speaker 2 Well, John, in two days will hit the month of April, and that means that in less than three months, there will be a Democratic primary in New York, probably not a Republican primary, and I thought, for a moment we’d look take a look at the candidates and what their chances are. There are so many people running for mayor

0:35 John that I think, for the first time in history, there are two people running for mayor whose first names begin with a Z. The first one is Zelnormiri. He is an attorney that lives in Brooklyn. He’s in the New York State Legislature, African American, has passed a lot of bills, has done very well with his colleagues. But

0:57 I don’t think he can raise the money, nor can he achieved the notoriety at this time to win this particular primary. Now, the other Z has quite the opposite fortune, and that would be Zorn Mandani. Zorndanni is tends to be to the left of center. He is raised a lot of money, he’s right in the matching funds. He’s

1:24 actually probably on the ground raised more money than anyone else from the grassroots perspective, and he does have, you know, an agenda. I would say that would be closer to former candidates such as Bill de Blasio. But he states his case very well, and his decorum, as I saw him in an interview just a couple of nights ago,

1:48 is very positive. You know, a lot of times people on the left and the right, but particularly on the left, have a tendency to be man at everything, they hate everything. He doesn’t come across that way at all. But now we come to the candidate who was leading the field.

2:02 He is Andrew Clmo. He got matching funds, he’s got one point five million dollars, he’s got a record of achievement as governor where he served for ten and a half years, and it would seem to me right now that he would be an odds on favorite. What we haven’t talked about is the current mayor, Mayor Eric Adams,

2:28 and he is still just just things are just not going his way now. Just a few weeks ago, just six weeks ago, his case was given to a judge dale Hoe, who asked for an outside attorney to come in and review the case, and they had and the person came back with the conclusion that the case should

2:51 be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it’s dismissed and you never hear about it again, as opposed to what the original dismissal was months ago. But this time they’re waiting for the judge to react to that decision, which I think would be the easiest decision he would ever have to make.

3:10 But another two weeks has gone by and he hasn’t ruled, And the Adams campaign is complaining internally to just people in the know that why should they continue to drag this situation out come to a conclusion one way or the other. When they finished their conclusion. The problem is that Mayor Adams only raised nineteen thousand dollars in the

3:31 last period. He’s got a lot of money that’s frozen because the campaign finance board didn’t think that it was raised legitimately. And of course when those two things happen, the next thing that happens is sagging poll numbers, and he’s got that. But Eric is a fighter he’s been in tougher situations in his life before, and there’s a chance.

3:59 But I think right now the person that is drawing the most attention, when you draw the most attention, you also draw the most criticism or anything that ever happened in your life that even look like something comes up.

4:12 But Andrew Cuomo has I think a decided advantage here.

4:18 Speaker 1 Understand. So Governor Cuomo is in the lead right now, and Eric Adams is out there someplace trying to straighten out his situation. Now, we had the other day, we had the borders our Tom Homan on and he says he is waiting for Eric Adams, Mayor Adams to sign an agreement on cooperation with the government, the federal government.

4:52 Speaker 2 Yes, And this is where Mayor Adams has a little bit of a problem, because generally speaking, the Democratic p Party in New York City is anathema to the federal government. They are not particularly pleased with the references to the city and some of the actions have been taken and even some interventions at Columbia University and other places that

5:18 the federal government has done. However, if Mayor Adams, let’s say, if this was last year and the same thing was the case, I don’t think there’d be as much objection to the cooperation that the mayor has given the federal government.

5:35 And listen, right now, Donald Trump won the election, and this is the way he has chosen to deal with the migrant situation, and he would be very welcoming of anyone who’s giving him help. And he and Secretary Holman are getting that cooperation from Mayor Adams. That says a lot about him as a public servant. Probably also says

6:01 that it makes his candidacy more controversial than it otherwise would be understood.

6:08 Speaker 1 Now, another confusing thing is now Curtis Leewa in the Republican end doesn’t seem to have any opponents, so he doesn’t have a primary.

6:18 Speaker 2 He has no primary, so kurtiw can put his feed up until September, I mean until June. But otherwise, if he wants to be mayor, he’s got to be moving around arguing his case. And right now he doesn’t have to worry about a Republican opponent. All he has to do is dispute what the Democratic Party has done in

6:40 the mayor’s office. Because Democrats have controlled the mayor office, the mayor’s office since Mayor Giuliani left.

6:47 Speaker 1 And on the Democratic end, is there rank choice voting for the primary?

6:54 Speaker 2 Yes, this rank that’s where he confuses people.

6:57 Speaker 1 They don’t understand that at all.

7:01 Speaker 2 Well, you know what, You’ve invited a guest on this morning who doesn’t understand it either. You know, I was a very good math student in my day, and I can’t understand. And you know the.

7:15 Speaker 1 Problem is, let’s do this. Why don’t we do our homework and maybe we’ll speak about it next week.

7:22 Speaker 2 We’ll speak about it next week. I’ll have a definite answer for you, John.

7:26 Speaker 1 Well, Governor David Pattison, thank you for your filling in all of us and your common sense, and let’s catch up again real soon. Sounds good.