Mayor Adams’ team declines to take NYC Council questions at appointment powers hearing
The New York City Council took a step toward wresting control from the mayor's executive appointment powers at a committee hearing on Wednesday, leading to a tense exchange between a mayoral representative and councilmembers.
"Advice and consent ensures that city agency commissioners who control critical services that affect and determine the well-being of New Yorkers are held to the highest standards,” she said. After councilmembers criticized his office for not sending a representative to testify on the measure on Wednesday, Tiffany Raspberry, senior adviser to the mayor and his director of intergovernmental affairs, appeared in the Council chambers and was sworn in. She said the administration opposed the legislation and that it would be “undoubtedly bad for New Yorkers.”
But Raspberry refused to take questions from councilmembers after delivering her prepared statement, saying she was not prepared because the mayor’s office was not formally invited. Committee Chair Lincoln Restler pushed back on that assertion, sparking a fraught exchange between the two before Raspberry left the chambers.
“So now that we understand that you didn't take it that way, we’ll be sure to make sure that anything that is shared in jest in a collegial manner, that we specify that,” she said. Later on Wednesday, at a dueling meeting on the Upper East Side, Mayor Adams’ new appointees to the Charter Revision Commission praised him for bringing them together in the spirit of giving a “voice for the voiceless.”
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