She is regarded in some corners as fiercely protective of that relationship and of her role in Mr. Adams for years, including as his chief of staff when he was a state senator, and now as his deputy in Brooklyn Borough Hall. Lewis-Martin, deputy Brooklyn borough president Cuomo on his 2006 attorney general race, and businesses that include Lime, the scooter company. He is a founder of Pythia Public Affairs, a communications firm, and has worked for elected officials including Gov. Adams craft a campaign message that focused on his personal narrative. Smith also has experience in labor politics. He and the firm have worked on behalf of prominent members of Congress, including Representatives Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks, and he has assisted Mr. Smith is a founding partner of Red Horse Strategies, a consulting firm. Here is a guide to the allies who could help shape his administration and his agenda. His network includes people he knows from Brooklyn politics and from his years in Albany, union officials, religious leaders, campaign staffers, wealthy donors, members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s orbit and longtime mentors. Adams, 60, begins formulating what lies ahead for him and the city, he will be relying on these advisers, as well as new allies who supported him over the last year as he built a winning coalition of unions and Black and Latino voters outside Manhattan. His campaign manager, Katie Moore, and Frank Carone, a Brooklyn power broker, also played pivotal roles in his ascent to become the Democratic nominee for mayor.Īs Mr. Adams still relies on those three advisers as part of his small inner circle: Nathan Smith, a political strategist Evan Thies, a communications consultant and Ingrid P. In overwhelmingly Democratic New York, he is the heavy favorite to win in the general election in November.
Adams began to set up “mayor classes” - meeting with dozens of local government veterans to learn about the major issues facing the city - and was twice elected as Brooklyn borough president before winning the Democratic primary for mayor in June.
Adams and his associates charted a path designed to take him to City Hall. More than a decade ago, when Eric Adams was a New York state senator, he met with three key advisers at Balboa, a restaurant in Brooklyn, to plot his political future.
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