So I want to tell you about the inner circle dinner play that I attended at the Zieg Field on Saturday night.

So this is the Press Association of New York City.

And every year they put on a very clever play, spoofing New York City politics.

And it's been going on, I think, more than 100 years.

It's not as robust as it used to be.

They're very good, by the way.

The play is good and the performance are good.

But it used to be a much more powerful event. So the governor and the mayor, but there were no big shots there on

Saturday night. There were a few journalists like me, but not as many as it should have been.

No. I saw Governor Patterson

there and a few other people that of note, but mostly they were advertisers, people who

buy time on various media in New York City. Anyway, I picked up a bunch of stuff at the minute that matter to you.

No one, no one, and these are insiders,

feels that Mayor Adams is going to be reelected.

No one. Zero.

Because he has no constituency, no power base.

It's going to run as an independent.

I don't mind him doing that.

I think that's a good thing.

But he's got no record.

And he's going to say,

trial, crime is down, blah, blah, blah.

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