“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Democrats are nothing if not experts at distraction.
To take your attention off the fact that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are a total disaster, they’ve focused on Russia, Ukraine, supply chains, greedy meatpackers… just about everything except their own rancid policies.
But of all these diversions, only one really stuck. A few Democrats said they had learned their lesson and wanted to change things. The most famous of these is New York City Mayor Eric Adams. We were told he’s a new kind of Democrat, one who was going to clean up the city after riots and no-bail releases.
Even some of the best people believed him. Tucker Carlson said Adams’ anti-crime policies might make him “the sanest guy running and maybe the one person who can save the city from itself.”
Adams did say all the right things. Then he got into office—and the crime rate has kept on soaring.
“Though most agree it is too early for Adams’ policies to take effect,” Politico reported, referring to data tracked by the New York Police Department
“Major crime is up by 44 percent through Sunday, compared to the same period last year. Shootings, which doubled last year compared to 2019 levels, are up another 14 percent this year. Robberies have increased by 47 percent, burglaries by 31 percent, and assaults by 19 percent.”
Murders have fallen—by a measly nine percent—but that’s coming down from a huge spike.
“We are definitely not at the numbers we want,” said Mayor Adams on his way to deliver a message to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Maybe coddling Al Sharpton was his first mistake?
It looks like Shaprton’s soft-on-crime views have rubbed off on the mayor, at least a little bit.
Politico says that Adams “recently watched a video of several officers attempting to taser a suspect, only to let him escape in his car when their taser gun proved inoperable. The mayor said he called the cops to thank them for keeping their cool, and suggested that footage could be shown to their peers for better and more frequent on-the-job training.”
So, he plans to cut down on crime by thanking cops who let criminals get away—instead of, say, pursuing him and deflating his tires?
Adams is still talking about more policing of the subway and things of that sort… but so far, what he’s doing isn’t working, and New Yorkers have noticed.
In a new poll released Wednesday, 41% of people ranked crime as the “issue most important to you living in New York City today.” The pollsters pointed out, “Inflation/gas prices/cost of living is a distant second at 19%.”
Imagine a problem so serious that you no longer worry about gas prices and inflation. But that how the Adams’ endangered constituents feel walking the streets of the Big Apple.
But 94% of voters agreed that “New York City needs to balance stricter law enforcement alongside solutions to the societal problems that cause crime,” and 62% strongly agreed.
He wants to crack down on “gun violence,” which means enacting stricter gun control measures in a city that already has among the tightest gun restrictions in the country—certainly tighter than anything allowed by the Second Amendment.
He backed a bill that would let 800,000 illegal aliens vote in New York City elections.
In February, he fired 1,400 New York City employees—including 36 members of the New York Police Department and 25 firemen—because they weren’t vaccinated against the China virus.
He calls himself a vegan; when he got caught eating fish, he got into a major controversy over his eating habits. “I aspire to be plant-based 100 percent of the time,” he said, “but, as I said, I am perfectly imperfect, and have occasionally eaten fish.”
Forgive me, Whole Foods, for I have sinned.
He wasted official time holding a press conference on Monday bragging that New York City would post huge billboards in Florida cities like Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach to oppose Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-grooming law. They have the word “gay” in rainbow colors numerous times with messages like, “People Say a lot of ridiculous things in New York. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them,” and “Come to the city where you can say whatever you want.”
But can you really say anything in Eric Adams’ New York? Not if it criticizes him.
Just ask Daniela Jampel, a former New York City employee who was fired inside of 24 hours after she complained about Adams’ decision to keep the city’s kids masked up.
“Three weeks ago, you told parents to trust you, that you would unmask our toddlers. Ten days ago, you stood right here and you said that the masks would come off April 4, that has not happened,” she said. A few hours later, she was looking for work.
She’d be a lot safer emailing companies from home than going door-to-door. Eric Adams hasn’t exactly kept his word on that, either.
If Eric Adams is a “new kind of Democrat,” the tough-talking, tough-acting crime fighter who can win, Democrats’ future looks dimmer than ever in 2022. Just like New Yorkers’.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”