First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro went on the attack against City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Friday, charging that she “misused” her office by booting two council members off her budget team after they endorsed her mayor’s race rival Andrew Cuomo.
The first deputy mayor’s comments re-ignite tensions between himself and the speaker. The pair appeared to be trying to reconcile, following Mastro’s recent appointment as first deputy mayor, after the speaker effectively killed his nomination to be the city’s top attorney last year.
