{"id":1788962,"date":"2022-12-28T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788962"},"modified":"2022-12-28T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:48:04","slug":"i-deserve-private-time-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-fleeing-city-ahead-of-severe-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-deserve-private-time-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-fleeing-city-ahead-of-severe-winter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Deserve Private Time\u2019Eric Adams, NYC Mayor flees the City in advance of severe winter storm"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fi-deserve-private-time-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-fleeing-city-ahead-of-severe-winter-storm%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=1788962&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-->\n<p>New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/eric-adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Adams<\/a> Wednesday&#8217;s defense came after he was criticised for leaving the city last week as the Big Apple prepared for severe winter storms during the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery mayor traveled away,\u201d Adams stated this to reporters. \u201cI deserve private time \u2014 I\u2019m a believer of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams, a retired police officer captain who assumed office on January 1, 2022 was reported to have taken a few days off to travel to the U.S Virgin Islands last week, as the city of around 8.8million prepared for the winter blast.<\/p>\n<p>The worst was in Western New York. \u201conce in a generation\u201d A winter storm also hit large parts of the country. It caused dangerous conditions and knocked out power to more than a million customers. This hampered holiday travel plans and nearly 30 people were killed in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>As the approaching winter storm threatened to cause widespread damage, Governor Kathy Hochul declared an emergency for the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>However, New York City\u2019s mayor felt he needed to escape the major metropolitan area ahead of the natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deserve to walk out of the building without a reporter hiding behind a flowerpot \u2014 without someone following me,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI deserve a moment to really de-escalate, and there will be many days that my body and my mind is going to tell me, \u2018Eric, you need to get away.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/27\/eric-adams-went-to-virgin-islands-as-bomb-cyclone-hit-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Adams was elected the first deputy mayor of the city, and he held a press conference. \u201cgiving a complete diagnosis of what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lorraine Grillo, the First Deputy Mayor of Milan, offered a defense for her boss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-skips-town-ahead-of-winter-blast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cLet me just say this to you \u2014 he might as well be here because we\u2019ve been speaking constantly throughout the day,\u201d According to The New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Adams also explained that the New York City Press doesn&#8217;t require a mayor report his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to do that,\u201d Adams said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not going to apologize for having the mental and physical capacity that\u2019s needed to do the second most difficult job in politics in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams returned to the city on Saturday night, where the Post spotted him attending Christmas Eve midnight mass at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Adams answered a reporter&#8217;s question about where he was during the second week. \u201cgetting some rest and hiding from the Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Adams, NYC Mayor defends Virgin Islands trip in preparation for winter storm <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I deserve private time. [\u2026] Nowhere in the city charter does it state I have to report to the New York City press where my whereabouts are, and I&#8217;m not going to do that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1fJKWtbjC\">pic.twitter.com\/S1fJKWtbjC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1608178881537744897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This report was contributed by Daniel Chaitin<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended himself Wednesday after facing criticism last week for fleeing the city as the Big Apple braced for a severe winter storm during the Christmas holiday. \u201cEvery mayor traveled away,\u201d Adams told reporters. \u201cI deserve private time \u2014 I\u2019m a believer of that.\u201d Adams, a retired police captain who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1788965,"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":[541],"tags":[7156,7749,7007,5269,6202,12229,12228,4602,7332,4070,4471,4180,12227,3829,6195],"class_list":["post-1788962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-i","tag-adams","tag-advance","tag-city","tag-daily","tag-deserve","tag-flees","tag-mayor","tag-nyc","tag-private","tag-severe","tag-storm","tag-timeeric","tag-winter","tag-wire"],"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\/1788962","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}