The recent announcement of Speaker Adrienne Adams attempting to pull a last-minute change in the City Council Rules screams of an eleventh-hour power grab to harm people who didn’t support her or curry favor for the ones who did.
These changes, if made, would block bills like Intro 1096 to protect NYC Retirees’ earned and vested Medicare benefits and prevent them from being forced into medical debt because of decisions made by Mayor Eric Adams and Renee Campion of the Mayor’s Office of Labor Relations. Or Ryder’s Law to protect the Central Park horses. These bills are popular with the people and many council members, but the Speaker could block them from the eyes of democracy to get her way.
