With ranked endorsements, DC 37 rejects Cuomo, hears out activist members

Retirees shunned

Within a day of District Council 37’s endorsement of City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for mayor, the union had already printed out dozens of pro-Adams signs and marshaled Attorney General Letitia James and the heads of two other powerful unions — UNITE HERE Local 100 and Local 1180 of the Communications Workers of America — to join DC 37’s leadership and Adams at a press conference in the union’s new, state-of-the-art downtown headquarters.

The rapid creation of a coalition of support could be a sign of things to come for Adams as DC 37’s Executive Director Henry Garrido pledged Wednesday to do “everything in our power” to get the speaker elected mayor. James promised to do the same, saying that she planned to speak with Adams in Black churches across the city, and identified her as someone who could “protect the rule of law and our democracy.”