{"id":361133,"date":"2025-11-07T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361133\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:00:15","slug":"new-york-city-urgently-needs-a-sane-city-council-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361133\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City URGENTLY needs a sane City Council speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/04\/opinion\/zohran-mamdani-won-but-has-no-mandate-its-up-to-kathy-hochul-dems-to-save-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani taking office <\/a>Jan. 1, New York City desperately needs some steady hands at the top of city government: Having the City Council tap Julie Menin as its next speaker would be a great start.<\/p>\n<p>The council itself will still have the solid progressive majority that saw it overriding at least eight of Mayor Eric  Adams\u2019 vetoes, including last year\u2019s How Many Stops Act; it also passed multiple dubious measures with veto-proof majorities that Adams simply let become law.<\/p>\n<p>Menin herself is no conservative, and only \u201cmoderate\u201d compared to Mamdani: She voted \u201caye\u201d with the other progs on all those measures; she\u2019s bragged about funding Drag Queen Story Hours in her district and opposing righty group Moms for Liberty hosting a forum in the city.<\/p>\n<p>And we <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/03\/opinion\/small-hotels-get-the-shaft-as-julie-menin-plays-divide-and-conquer-to-deliver-for-a-big-special-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed her repeatedly<\/a> for her role in pushing a hotel-regulation bill that was basically a gift to the powerhouse hotel-workers union under guise of promoting safety.<\/p>\n<p>But at least she made some compromises on the way to getting that bill passed; a host of established interests \u2014 unions and Democratic regulars as well as many in the business community \u2014 see her as a voice for practical common sense who can help steer the new mayor into implementing his agenda without triggering a mass exodus of taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>And she actually knows city government as a three-time former head of a major city agency and a veteran of the city\u2019s Law Department before winning her East Side council seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Three other known speaker hopefuls are markedly more aligned with the progressive-activist community: Crystal Hudson (Brooklyn), Amanda Farias (The Bronx) and Chris Marte (Manhattan), who backed Mamdani in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Queens councilwoman Selvena Brooks-Powers, like Menin, didn\u2019t endorse a mayoral candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/06\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-say-if-chuck-schumer-should-face-election-challenge-as-he-lunches-with-aoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mayor-elect is sending every signal<\/a> he means to go full speed ahead; the most obvious hope for any semblance of stability is a speaker who can at least help him avoid the worst potholes.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Menin may be the only game in town for New Yorkers eager to avoid four years of nonstop disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani taking office Jan. 1, New York City desperately needs some steady hands at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5310,7033,4691,175377,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-361133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-julie-menin","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505949872081197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}