Adams specifically went after Yang’s plan to provide between $2,000 and $5,000 annually for half-a-million of the most financially-strapped New Yorkers. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Andrew Yang’s proposal to distribute cash subsidies became the subject of a rare public attack from another leading mayoral candidate Friday morning.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams admonished Yang’s scaled-back Universal Basic Income plan — branding it “snake oil” and “UBLie” as he touted his own $1 billion plan to expand a federal tax credit with city funds during virtual remarks before the Association for a Better New York.
“Let me also tell you what New Yorkers do not need right now: We do not need empty promises from hollow salesmen. Too much is at stake,” Adams told more than 80 people viewing the business consortium’s weekly candidate screening. “People of color and working people have been lied to again and again by salesmen who do not understand our struggle or do not care about it. It is always the same — when there is an election, salesmen come into our neighborhoods trying to buy votes with promises.”
Those “salesmen,” he continued, were absent from some of the city’s biggest crises — frozen pipes in public housing developments, rising crime, police shootings.
“They didn’t organize the marches; they didn’t whip the votes; they didn’t comfort the families whose baby wasn’t coming home,” he added.
Though he did not mention Yang — a Schenectady native who moved to the city 25 years ago and decamped to his upstate home when the pandemic hit — Adams left little room to guess.
He specifically went after Yang’s plan to provide between $2,000 and $5,000 annually for half-a-million of the most financially-strapped New Yorkers — a modest version of the Universal Basic Income proposal Yang championed during his presidential bid.
“A false plan with false promises,” he called it. “Does that sound universal to you? It does not to me. Lying to low-income New Yorkers right now is cruel and it’s wrong.”
The campaign to succeed outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio has been a relatively friendly affair, with most candidates reasoning the advent of ranked-choice voting requires they appeal to their opponents’ voters.
Adams, who has come in second to Yang in the few polls conducted so far, also used his hour-long appearance to roll out his “MyCity” plan to streamline the notoriously cumbersome process of accessing government resources.
He vowed to launch a single online portal for everything from applying for cash assistance to paying fees to qualify for a construction permit, and has said he would institute annual budget cuts to pay for his expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
When asked for a response, Yang’s team noted Adams had once been a registered Republican who later supported members of a coalition of breakaway Democrats that kept the GOP in power in Albany.
“Takes some chutzpah for a former Republican, [Independent Democratic Conference] enabler to lecture anyone about community needs, especially after watering down and ripping off our platform,” co-campaign manager Chris Coffey said. “Guess he’s noticed the polls.”
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