{"id":2970,"date":"2025-09-09T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:04:44","slug":"statement-from-new-york-city-council-spokesperson-on-the-board-of-elections-vote-on-mayor-adams-ballot-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/09\/09\/2970\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from New York City Council Spokesperson on the Board of Elections\u2019 Vote on Mayor Adams\u2019 Ballot Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the New York City Board of Elections&#8217; vote to certify Mayor Adams\u2019 ballot proposals, a <strong>spokesperson for the New York City Council, Julia Agos<\/strong>, issued the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying to deceive voters into giving away their power in a democracy through misleading ballot proposals that hide their true impact is fundamentally undemocratic. Mayor Adams\u2019 Commission could have offered honestly worded ballot proposals to give voters the choice to make informed decisions, but it chose not to and instead is attempting to trick voters with buzzwords and slogans. We as New Yorkers shouldn\u2019t be surprised that this effort to give the public\u2019s power to developers comes from Mayor Adams, someone who has been selling our city out to Trump and aiding in his authoritarianism at nearly every turn. We will take action to protect democracy from Mayor Adams\u2019 dishonest ballot proposals, which would strip Black, Latino and Asian neighborhoods of their power to secure more affordable housing and community investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the New York City Board of Elections&#8217; vote to certify Mayor Adams\u2019 ballot proposals, a <strong>spokesperson for the New York City Council, Julia Agos<\/strong>, issued the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying to deceive voters into giving away their power in a democracy through misleading ballot proposals that hide their true impact is fundamentally undemocratic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/09\/09\/2970\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}