Mayor Adams, who was missing last week as a storm hit the New York City, said Tuesday that he was in the Virgin Islands and that he was “really alarmed” by news coverage of his two days out of the five boroughs.
“I deserve good work-life balance,” said Adams, who has earned a reputation as a workhorse but did not inform New Yorkers that he was leaving the city before the Caribbean pre-Christmas jaunt.
“Every mayor traveled away,” Adams added. “Nowhere in the City Charter does it state I have to report to the New York City press where my whereabouts are. And I’m not going to do that.”
While he was missing on Thursday and Friday, homes flooded in the Rockaways, and a house fire on Staten Island killed two small children and injured four others.
The mayor said that he took time off because he was burned out from his first year in office and that he wanted to reflect on his mother, Dorothy Mae Adams, who died during his run for mayor last year.
In Adams’ absence, his first deputy mayor, Lorraine Grillo, led a storm briefing.
“He might as well be here, because we’ve been speaking constantly throughout the day,” Grillo said of Adams on Friday. “The mayor decided to take two days off and get some rest.”
After returning to New York, the mayor made a public appearance Saturday night, on Christmas Eve, at mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan.
On Tuesday evening, he held his first news conference since his return.
“After 365 days of working without a day off — sun-up to sun-down — I was really surprised at your response,” Adams said .
The episode had a not-so-distant historical echo.
Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who often traveled out of the city without alerting the press corps, was said to be in Bermuda on Christmas weekend in 2010, before a blizzard hit the city.
With Chris Sommerfeldt
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Contrary to their beliefs the New York City press or any other Democrat Party controlled media, Does NOT run this country!
But Democrat party supporters operate strictly on emotion, with very little rational thought and who simply do not understand reality or basic economics. Democrats are willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them before they will agree to compromise their failed policies and destructive self-fabricated lies and beliefs that are mostly fed to them by the Democrat Party controlled media.
You are sooo right about the emotion vs reasoning thing. The “right side” of the brain is totally dead in these people. I witnessed it for 30 years in college classrooms.
He deserves a PINK SLIP!
Two observations here:
a. Big City Mayor is not a Work-Life Balance kind of job. You sign up for long hours, few or no days off.
b. A lot of tasks need to be delegated for this sort of job. If you don’t have capable department heads/subordinates to put in charge of snow removal, trash pickup, running the subways, etc, perhaps it’s time to get some new folks in those jobs.
He must takes lessons from Babbling Biden on how to abandon your post during a National crisis…..
On second thought, maybe they should both stay in the Virgin Islands indefinitely. The country would be better off.
ONLY IF we can remove their Citizensihp and passports WHILE THEY ARE OVER there!!!
The people of New York deserve a better Mayor.
The fool Democrats elected him, so they got what they voted for.
SoT. THEY ELECTED Him.. So they get what they deserve!
Illegal Joe has snuck away 147 times in 2 years. He’s put more time on the beach than he has the white house.
He does not do anything in the White House anyway , except what he is instructed to do by the puppet masters.
And we saw the climate whiners, COMPLAIN about Trump and HIS taking all those trips.
BUT crickets when its BIDEN doing it.
I think we see the trend for Democrats; they want the power, the money, and the spotlight but in NO WAY do they actually intend to do the job.
He believes this but in a different way: when the going gets tough the tough get going (out of town to better places).