Citizens Union endorses Cuomo as part of mayoral slate despite 2021 impeachment demand
The Citizens Union, one of New York’s oldest good government groups, is supporting Andrew Cuomo as part of its 2025 mayoral race endorsement slate — even though the organization demanded he be removed as governor in 2021 over sexual misconduct accusations.
In an endorsement announcement shared exclusively with the Daily News this week, the watchdog group wrote that it is urging New Yorkers to back Cuomo, Brad Lander and Zellnor Myrie for mayor in the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary.
The group, which was founded in 1897 to serve as a counterweight to the notoriously corrupt Tammany Hall political machine, didn’t offer a proposed specific ranking of the three candidates, opting instead to endorse all of them jointly. In a statement, the group’s board acknowledged the move is “unusual,” but argued there’s good reason for it.
“No single candidate currently running is perfectly equipped to handle this challenge. But New Yorkers are not limited to choosing just one candidate — they can, and should, rank up to five candidates,” the statement read.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/03/citzens-union-endorses-cuomo-as-part-of-mayoral-slate-despite-2021-impeachment-demand/
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