{"id":1737716,"date":"2022-11-14T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737716"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:04:07","slug":"nyc-overwhelmingly-passes-3-ballot-measures-proposed-by-their-racial-justice-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-overwhelmingly-passes-3-ballot-measures-proposed-by-their-racial-justice-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Overwhelmingly Passes 3 Ballot Measures Proposed by Their Racial Justice Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-overwhelmingly-passes-3-ballot-measures-proposed-by-their-racial-justice-commission%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Voters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> easily approved three ballot measures proposed by leaders of the city&#8217;s Racial Justice Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Residents of the nation&#8217;s largest city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to create<\/a> a new racial-equity bureaucracy that will include a chief equity officer, following the advice of the commission that was created last year by former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n<p>The first proposal residents passed will add a preamble to the city charter that acknowledges the city has a &#8220;grave&#8221; history of &#8220;injustices and atrocities,&#8221; while declaring the city will be &#8220;just and equitable city for all&#8221; and that &#8220;diversity is our strength.&#8221; The measure passed with 72.3% of the vote, according to the unofficial results from the city&#8217;s Board of Elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NYC MAN STEALS SUBWAY RIDER&#8217;S BAG, SLASHES FACE OF VICTIM WHO CONFRONTED HIM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/640\/320\/adams-1.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"New York City Mayor Eric Adams\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      New York City Mayor Eric Adams<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another proposal, which passed with 69.8% of the vote, approved the amendment of the city charter to establish an Office of Racial Equity that will be headed by a chief equity officer. The newly created office will be tasked with a racial-equity commission that will guide the city&#8217;s racial justice priorities and require all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-and-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city agencies<\/a> to produce a racial-equity plan every two years.<\/p>\n<p>The third proposal, which passed with 81% of the vote, requires the city to establish a cost of living metric that will &#8220;provide a clearer picture of the racial wealth gap&#8221; in New York City, which will &#8220;guide the City\u2019s decisions as it develops and administers programs and services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/bill-de-blasio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">de Blasio-created<\/a> commission behind the measures released its report in December, with its leaders arguing that the proposals were merely &#8220;steps toward justice&#8221; in the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/640\/320\/2021-02-05T184118Z_190136976_RC2IML9LIRQX_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-VACCINES-NEWYORK.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Reuters\/Carlo Allegri)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uprooting structural racism is not a onetime event,&#8221; the conclusion of the report read. &#8220;The Commission heard many recommendations that for various reasons were not included in the final proposals. The Commission knows much more work still needs to be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAMichaelLee\">@UAMichaelLee<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in New York City easily approved three ballot measures proposed by leaders of the city&#8217;s Racial Justice Commission.Residents of the nation&#8217;s largest city voted to create a new racial-equity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}