Brian Laird on W.N.C. We'll come back to the Trump verdicts and more of your calls on that later in the show with Andrea Bernstein.

But it's not the only thing going on in the world and we want to talk for a few minutes now about a local political

situation that is growing more intense the bad blood and competition for

power between Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council.

Over the last month, there have been several contentious City Council hearings

with representatives of the Adams Administration,

culminating in a bill that council was now considering that would grant the council powers to approve many more mayoral appointees.

Central to the division is city council member Lincoln wrestler of District 33,

Borum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Navy Yard, downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo, Fulton Ferry,

Greenpoint, Vinegar Hill, and Williamsburg, what am I leaving out?

Earlier this month, he grilled chief citywide equity

and inclusion officer, Sylvia Montelbonne,

on the mayor's handling of two sexual harassment allegations against Tim Pearson, a longtime

advisor and friend to Adams.

Wrestler particularly questioned the role of Melody Ruiz, the chief equal opportunity officer for the mayor's

office.

We're going to play a 50 second clip of this because this became such a point of contention between the council and the mayor.

It's run by Miss Melody Ruiz. She makes 201,071 dollars.

She's the chief EEO officer of the mayor's office.

Long time former Borough Hall staffer.

So, um, chair wrestler, uh, we know that to be the EEO office for the mayor's office

entities is how, um, we at DeCaste it so we just see it as another agency that has an

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