Less than two years after its creation, a group of conservative-leaning councilmembers says it's becoming an influential voting bloc within New York City politics.
discouraging the city’s largest jail from falling under federal receivership — an opinion at odds with most advocates as well as the federal monitor overseeing the complex.
Ariola, a Republican caucus member, recalls one instance in which all of the members were urged to leave a room – where they were meeting separately from their colleagues – and enter the chamber so the Council could have a quorum to take a vote. The caucus is also expecting to expand in the near future. Carr said there are “potential Republican pickups” in several local races in November, including for Council seats in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.
“New York City has always gone through these cycles of the Democratic political machine being really, really strong and the machine getting a little bit too arrogant, too cocky, too much corruption, too much not paying attention to what their constituents need and ignoring their voters, and then you have these defectors, these challengers,” she said.
The caucus’s performance in the past year-and-a-half is shaky. When asked about legislative accomplishments it has been able to achieve thus far, Borelli could only point to the property tax rebate in last year’s budget and rescinding some employees’ vaccine mandates. But both of those were already mayoral priorities.Borelli also said he’s aware that he – and the other conservative-leaning officials – won’t be in office forever.
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