It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm Matt Katz from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today. Coming up on today's show New York Senator

Kirsten Gillibrand, she'll give us her take on the Democratic

Party's moves to quickly coalesce around Kamala Harris as the nominee and she'll

take your calls. That's in about a half hour. Plus later in the show why election insecurity can be a risk for national security.

And any self-identified childless cat ladies or catmen out there want to respond to the resurfaced comments that Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance made criticizing you.

We'll want to hear from you and get your take on this moment in the campaign

that'll be the near the end of today's show but first we start today with city politics

and a scoop from our very own Bridget Bergen.

You know Bridget from sitting in this chair that I'm in right now filling in for Brian Laird, and you know her

from years of political reporting in New York.

I'm particularly fond of Bridget's work

when she's breaking news about corruption and elections, which is exactly what

happened this week with her story available now on Gothamist headlined Mayor Adams 2021 campaign

flagged for 2.3 million dollar gap in fundraising records.

But you found that Mayor Adams, who's up for a re-election next year, faces significant

financial penalties which could gravely affect his re-election war chest after he fell

to document campaign expenses including some

questionable ones.

Bridget read through a 900 page draft audit that she obtained through a public

records request and it gave her a look into the spending of a

candidate who used taxpayer funding matching money to fuel his election

victory.

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