New York Post

Push from far left for council’s speaker

- Julia Marsh and Carl Campanile

Queens County Democratic Party boss Rep. Gregory Meeks is joining forces with socialist, antiIsrael elected officials to block Mayor-elect Eric Adams from installing Francisco Moya as City Council speaker, The Post has learned.

Meeks is in talks with far-left council members including Democratic Socialists of America darling Tiffany Cabán to push the other frontrunne­r, Adrienne Adams, who like Moya is from Queens, multiple sources said.

The alliance is odd as Meeks, an establishm­ent moderate Queens Democrat, was formerly at war with Cabán and her allies over their radical positions to defund the NYPD and support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

“Greg Meeks has made a deal with Tiffany Cabán, Sandy Nurse and the other anti-Israel council members to back Adrienne Adams because that’s the only way they get to 26 votes. They don’t have the votes otherwise,” said one council insider.

Nurse, an incoming Brooklyn Democrat, doesn’t identify as DSA but does want to slash the NYPD’s budget and is pro-Palestine.

“Greg Meeks has a huge number of Jewish supporters and donors and the Jewish community in New York City is completely freaked out by the new anti-Israel faction in the City Council, and that’s whom he’s making a deal with,” the source said.

The official internal vote of the 51-member body will take place in early January, but the speaker is traditiona­lly chosen by external

power brokers like party bosses, labor unions and the mayor in December.

Cabán’s far-left coalition counts about five votes. Meeks’ faction adds the radical leftists to a group of progressiv­e members from Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

“It’s a marriage of convenienc­e,” a Democratic Party official told The Post about the oddball partnershi­p between Meeks and Cabán for the speaker’s race.

Both Moya and Adrienne Adams — no relation to the incoming mayor — declared victory on Twitter Tuesday.

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