NY GOP rips Hochul’s operating mate Adrienne Adams for backing non-citizen voting
Republicans are slamming Gov. Kathy Hochul’s operating mate Adrienne Adams for championing laws to permit non-citizens to vote in Massive Apple municipal elections.
Adams, who’s now vying for the submit of lieutenant governor on Hochul’s ticket, was head of the New York Metropolis Council when she helped push by way of the controversial regulation in 2021.
The laws, which allowed 800,000 non-citizen Massive Apple residents akin to authorized green-card holders to vote in metropolis elections, was ultimately struck down by the state’s highest courtroom as unconstitutional.
“Anybody making an attempt to dilute the voices of Americans and pushing for non-citizens to vote in our elections has no enterprise statewide or any elected workplace,” stated Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn).
State Republican Occasion Chairman Ed Cox stated Adams’ intensive total voting file within the council shall be scrutinized, together with payments she supported to rein within the Police Division.
However he stated her assist for non-citizen voting was excessive.
“Non-citizen voting is method on the market,” Cox stated.
Former Staten Island GOP metropolis Councilman Joe Borelli predicted that the difficulty will solely gasoline Hochul’s Republican gubernatorial foe, Bruce Blakeman, the present Nassau County govt on Lengthy Island.
Blakeman is set to faucet upstate Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino — recognized for his tough-on-crime and pro-gun stances — as his operating mate, sources advised The Put up on Sunday.
“If immigration stays a problem, which by all chance it can, Blakeman will certainly level to this non-citizens invoice as a validation of broader GOP factors on unlawful immigration and voter ID,” Borelli stated.
Adams and the Hochul marketing campaign didn’t reply to Put up requests for remark.
Adams not solely voted for the non-citizens invoice, as council speaker, she additionally supported a metropolis attraction after a Staten Island Supreme Court docket decide declared the measure unconstitutional.
“We stand agency in our dedication to empowering immigrant New Yorkers to take part in our native democratic course of,” Adams stated on the time.
“With right this moment’s attraction, we’re sending a transparent message that New York is a metropolis of inclusion. We look ahead to seeing the courtroom rule in favor of Native Legislation 11 and the Metropolis’s attraction.”
The state appeals courtroom upheld the decide’s ruling.
