New York governors have the power to kick New York City mayors out of office, and there’s a chance Gov. Kathy Hochul could be the first to use it. Eric Adams is the first.
New York governors have the power to kick New York City mayors out of office, and there’s a chance Gov. Kathy Hochul could be the first to use it. Eric Adams is the first of the city’s 110 mayors to be criminally charged while in office, Reuters notes, and the indictment has left Hochul in what the New York Times calls an “awkward position.” So far, she has chosen her words carefully. On Thursday night, she called the indictment “the latest in a disturbing pattern of events that has, understandably, contributed to a sense of unease among many New Yorkers” but she didn’t call for Adams to step down, the Times reports.
