The city Campaign Finance Board voted during a Friday meeting to award City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ mayoral campaign with $2.4 million in public matching funds — money that will give her bid the ability to air TV ads in the final weeks before the June 24 primary.
At the same time, the CFB dealt another blow to front-runner Andrew Cuomo by withholding an additional $675,000 from his campaign, citing its continued “reason to believe” that the campaign illegally coordinated with a super PAC supporting it. The CFB has now withheld nearly $1.3 million in matching funds from Cuomo, after withholding $622,000 from it earlier this month, over its preliminary finding of improper coordination between his campaign and the PAC — known as “Fix the City.”
