Mayor Adams has earned the criticism he faces
Manhattan: Re “Eric Adams and the invisible case” (op-ed, Dec. 2): Guest columnists Leroy Corrie and Ruben Diaz must think readers of The News and New Yorkers in general are stupid and can not tell right from wrong!
To suggest that Mayor Adams is being unfairly “targeted” by the federal government because of his criticism of the Biden administration for not bailing him out of the migrant mess he, in part, created is absurd! No mayor in his or her right mind would have proactively identified their city as a “sanctuary city”! Adams thinks he’s smarter than everyone! His hubris and arrogance in recruiting straw donors to his 2021 mayoral campaign is pretty obvious. The people who take the fall for these federal violations are usually low-level hires who will do almost anything to keep their cushy patronage positions.
To many New Yorkers, the image of Adams having direct links to the government of Turkey is suspicious. Why is a city-based Turkish construction company being investigated by the FBI for corrupt activities with City Hall? More specifically, were fire safety regulations suspended to allow the 2021 opening of a new consulate building opposite the United Nations just in time for their yearly meeting in October?
Credit to the Daily News’ investigative reporters! They are top-notch! They keep us informed, unlike Adams’s apologists, who are intent on minimizing the corruption and incompetence of the current city administration. Gerard Rosenthal
Last choice
Brooklyn: I am certainly one of those who voted for Mayor Adams in the 2021 mayoral election, and I am now one of the 55% of those who disapprove of “the job he is doing as mayor” as described in the article by Harry Seigel (“New Yorkers aren’t buying what Adams is selling,” column, Dec. 2). However, if we look at the primaries, we can see that there is little change in the way New Yorkers look at the mayor. In the first round of the primaries, he received only 30.7% of the vote running against Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley. And in the final round of the primaries, he received only 50.4% of the vote against Garcia. In each round, I voted for his opponents. But when he ran against Curtis Sliwa, a conservative Republican, I had no choice but to vote for our current mayor. Adams was never a very popular candidate in his own party! Lewis Friedman
Newly installed
Jackson Heights: Instead of apprehending turnstile jumpers and fining them, hopefully discouraging others, it was wonderful to read that the MTA installed $700,000 gates in a trial run. With potentially millions of dollars being spent on building a better mousetrap, it would have been a real waste to use this money for useless purposes, such as assisting homelessness or hiring more police. Thank you, MTA. Glenn B. Jacobi
Team on ice
Glen Oaks: How can you call yourself New York’s Hometown Paper when you refuse to cover the best sports team in New York, the New York Rangers? You have many fine writers who cover the other professional teams, but for some reason, outside of an occasional Associated Press story, there is no coverage of the Rangers. Please remedy this appalling situation by hiring someone to cover the Rangers beat. Fred Fleisher
Digital drag
Bronx: Not to pile on with the complaints, but for the last month or so, the Daily News iPad app has uploaded the Metro Final as the digital copy we get. Can we go back to the Sports Final on the app and leave the Metro Final to out-of-town airport newsstands where it belongs? Chuck Shannon
Page-turner
Jamaica: How invested am I and thousands of others when we open the Daily News and the first page we turn to is the comic section to read “Mutts,” just to see what is happening to Guard Dog? Thank you for showing the world what so many millions of animals are going through each day, each hour. Many give up and not enough are saved. Saturday’s strip brought me to actual tears. He is loved, he is wanted. Run, Doozy, run! Save Guard Dog because he’s about to get the best life ever when he gets better. Cassandra Murray
Undefeated defeat
Woodbury, L.I.: I do not know who makes up the committee that decides who plays in the college championship games, but Florida State University doesn’t play — 13-0 and they don’t play! Not fair, not right. Cindy O’Connor
Did it
Scarsdale, N.Y.: Mike Lupica said the Giants will never win another Super Bowl until they get a great quarterback. I dunno, Mike, they won two with Eli Manning. Career pass completion stats: Manning 60.3%, Tom Brady 64.3%, Daniel Jones 64.3% to date. John Kern
Sidelined superstar
Brooklyn: When will our New York football teams wake up? Our N.Y. Giants and N.Y. Jets are using third-string wannabe quarterbacks while Colin Kaepernick is waiting for a call to step in. When will the NFL stop persecuting Colin for kneeling in support of his beliefs? Robert Miller
Reduced tensions
Beechhurst: Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik approach to international relations bore two promising developments for humanity. The first was the SALT I and SALT II negotiations, which were designed to lower the threshold of nuclear war between the U.S. and USSR. The second was the historic opening to China, where the world witnessed that improbable shaking of hands between that old Cold War warrior President Richard Nixon and the father of Chinese communism, Chairman Mao Zedong. With respect to the former, one wonders whether it is within humanity’s capacity to put the nuclear genie even one inch back into the bottle. And regarding the latter, it seems to me that the West has naively opened itself up to fulfilling Vladimir Lenin’s prediction that the capitalists will sell the communists the rope from which they’ll hang them. James Hyland
Victims no more
Margate, Fla.: Voicer Betty Ussach unwittingly describes the long history of public relations and the Jewish people: They get their most favorable publicity when they are slaughtered. As the murderous reality of the Holocaust was revealed after World War II, there was, for a time, a diminution of antisemitism and an apparent favorable opinion of the surviving Jews. Of course, this sympathy did not last as the Jews of Israel defended themselves rather than be massacred. As Ussach describes, there was a similar superficial sympathy for the surviving Jews after the “barbaric attack” of Oct. 7. The bottom line is that Jews who defend themselves will never garner the sympathy that murdered Jews do. Richard Sherman
Trick question
North Arlington, N.J.: If there are any conservatives left who still read the Daily News, take my advice and ask a liberal just who the big guy Hunter Biden was holding the 10% for. Then watch them squirm, stutter and salivate. It always makes my day. Armand Rose
Dropped line
Howard Beach: Steve Bannon called Fox News “TV for stupid people” and an “absolute disgrace.” The reason for Bannon’s outrage is that Fox had the audacity to cut into Trump’s rally speech to fact-check in real time what Trump was saying, and told their viewers that the election was not rigged. Obviously, Bannon’s problem is right-wing media telling their viewers the truth. Barbara Berg
Fave games
Fairfield, N.J.: Kudus to Voicers Frank Lancellotti and Paul Janeski. My sole reason now for buying your paper daily is for the crosswords and puzzles. Maybe I can get the New York Post to begin incorporating the Jumble. Alexander Franchino
Self-defeating
Massapequa Park, L.I.: Good going, my fellow Republicans. You just handed over a seat to the Democrats. I guess expelling George Santos was more important than tackling the real problems that exist in the country, especially in New York, which is being decimated by the politicians who follow their own agenda instead of the people they were elected to represent. Why couldn’t you let him serve out his term and then get voted out next year? Thomas Facchiano
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