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The last photo was how Roberto Martinez, a bus driver and former police officer, saw it. At the bus stop with fellow members of the local Transportation Workers Union 100, the candidate was dubbed “a true, blue New Yorker.”
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On the question of residence, he said: “It does not matter.” “If you’re in Manhattan, you can see New Jersey. If that’s their best, forget it. The President of the United States lives in Washington, D.C. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t represent the people of Washington, D.C., the people of New Hampshire. If he wants to spend Weekend in Jersey with his girlfriend, I wouldn’t care.”
Electoral law experts said the law was on Mr. Adams’ side.
The state law governing residence states that “residence” means “the place in which a person maintains a fixed, permanent and principal residence and always intends to return to it, wherever his place of residence is.”
Martin Connor, an election attorney who was a senator for 30 years until 2008, said courts generally allowed candidates to have two residences, and they could choose one of them as a “political house.”
Mr Connor, who does not work with any of the mayoral candidates, said the courts have usually been generous with the candidates, sometimes allowing people to claim where they live even if they only stay there two nights a week. He said Mr. Adams’ choice to stay with his girlfriend in New Jersey “does not replace his stay in Brooklyn”.
“You’re usually fine if you get an apartment, a bed, and a refrigerator, especially if you own the building,” he said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio also sided with Mr. Adams.
“I’ve known Eric Adams for decades,” he said during a Thursday news conference. “He’s a Brooklyn. He’s a New Yorker. He’s served the city in many different jobs. I just don’t see a problem here.”
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