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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor - Earlier today, a suspicious device was discovered in Carl Schurz Park, near my home at Gracie Mansion. The NYPD responded immediately and secured the area. Thankfully, the device has been determined to be non-threatening. Thank you to the NYPD officers and Bomb Squad members
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UPDATE: The device in Carl Schurz Park has been cleared and determined to be non-threatening. This was an instance of everyday New Yorkers following a clear message: If you see something, say something. Call 888-NYC-SAFE.
https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2031455728058134673

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor - Video: Mayor Mamdani Holds Press Conference to Make a 3-K Announcement with Schools Chancellor Samuels
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nGnRYqlPnEGO
https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2031386884765626602

MAZE @mazemoore - While Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom had an affair with his best friend's wife. There was more to that scandal than most people know. It's really a testament to how corrupt California politics is that the scandal did not end Newsom's career.
Alex Tourk was Newsom's longtime friend and campaign manager. Tourk became Newsom's Deputy Chief of Staff after Newsom took office as Mayor in 2004. Shortly after Newsom took office, Tourk's wife (known as Ruby Rippey-Tourk back then) was given a job as "Appointments Secretary" in the Mayor's office. It is unclear if she got that job because of her husband or because of Newsom. She kept the job until the summer/fall of 2006. Newsom's affair with her was alleged to have started in 2005 but it may have started earlier.
Mayor Newsom's mistress was not only his friend's wife, she was also his subordinate. The affair was apparently an open secret to many in the Mayor's office. Unfortunately for the husband he somehow didn't know until she admitted it to him later on. Love is blind.
Here's the part of the scandal that most politicians would not have been able to survive. After the affair became public, it became clear that Newsom's mistress/secretary had received benefits that she did not qualify for while she worked for Newsom. Most of the unearned benefits revolved around her getting paid for time not spent working.
During her tenure she missed work over 20% of the time and yet still kept her job and still got paid. There was a nine month stretch during which she never worked even one full week during the entire nine months. She exceeded her PTO amount but kept taking PTO and kept getting paid for it.
Here's the big one. Gavin's former mistress/secretary also took almost three months off under the city's Catastrophic Illness Program. She was approved and paid for the time off even though her "illness" absolutely did not qualify for the program. Her illness? Alcoholism. No city employee in San Francisco had ever been approved for paid leave through the Catastrophic Illness Program for drug/alcohol related issues. The program was for life threatening illnesses such as advanced stage cancer. Ruby Rippey-Tourk claimed she was an alcoholic, took ten weeks off, and got paid for it by the city. Newsom's mistress was the only person to get that paid time off granted just for claiming to be an alcoholic. It was rumored at the time of her leave that she was pregnant with Newsom's child.