Alyssa Cass
@ACCass
Partner @ Slingshot Strategies, strategist @BlueprintPolls, National Popular Vote, all things NY politics
Wow @JustinBrannan: "I’ve negotiated 4 balanced, on-time, colossal city budgets and I can tell you this: Zohran’s ideas aren’t crazy, they’re necessary. His plans aren’t radical but required. Because NYC will never survive as a playground for the rich." cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025/0…
Eric Adams is many things, among them, well mannered. Thank you to hizzoner for his generous (albeit off-registry) wedding present (it’s today!!) to @TheRealERS : hyping the Slingshot general election poll.
"Playing With Fire" - Mayor @ericadamsfornyc WARNS NYC Permits Crisis Could Spark DISASTER @patrickbetdavid
Maya fucking rocks. Very smart, very excellent move. great operative but even better human being.
NEW from me: Mamdani names a new campaign manager as part of staff expansion, as his primary campaign manager shifts to central long term planning role to prep for the City Hall takeover he’s aiming for cnn.com/2025/07/25/pol…
“The Manhattan Institute but lib” (my words not the authors) is a kind of missing piece of the nonprofit/ideas firmament despite I think quite a bit of demand. Vital City kinds fills a City Journal esque role already
People support housing density if they like cities. The YIMBY movement will go farther if it evolves into a broader “livable cities” coalition. @CSElmendorf and @ProfSchleich show the way ⬇️
Fresh faces (like @Ellman4Congress) continue to show the rest of the party how it should be done... wapo.st/46UEwh1
Tesla Is the Least Trusted EV in the U.S., Survey Finds gizmodo.com/tesla-is-the-l…
According to a Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report survey, 50% of consumers were less interested in a robotaxi ride after reading an excerpt of WSJ coverage of the Tesla launch. Over 30% said they strongly believed self-driving taxis should be illegal. wired.com/story/tesla-ro…
Can we expect a new campaign walk on song in tribute? Pretty please???
My first concert. RIP.
I'm not surprised Mayor Adams is partnering with the Citizen app. I wrote about this app years ago. It is designed to scare the shit out of people.
Imagine if three weeks after the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton announced she was running again and promised to drop out of the 2020 primary if she wasn’t #1. Not one American would have been able to stop laughing unless they had a cringe-induced heart attack.
Andrew Cuomo set to run as an independent in NYC mayoral race — but there’s a catch trib.al/nMRiWET
Ask Jessica Ramos how making a deal with Cuomo worked out for her. The naïveté is disqualifying.
It is official! @andrewcuomo has joined the pledge. Now, hopefully, @NYCMayor and @CurtisSliwa will also embrace this for all New Yorkers. “I am glad Andrew has agreed to adopt my pledge,” Walden told NewsNation in a statement in response to Cuomo’s move. “I hope Eric and…
In NY alone, Trump's proposed budget would put 1500 formerly homeless veterans back on the street. This is straight-up UNAMERICAN. Please join me in raising the alarm and FIGHTING BACK.
Zohran won b/ of the parallel crises (of course, of different intensities) happening for literally every single New Yorker EXCEPT this class of people. As is super clear in @freedlander's great story, they're totally out to lunch...b/ they literally never have to take a subway or…
Inside the well-funded, likely doomed plan to stop Zohran Mamdani. A lot of donors are not behaving rationally, one operative said. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Yes, @ZohranKMamdani joins the near majority, rapidly growing, and increasingly bipartisan consensus that Telsa fucking blows. I guess it is somewhat radical for politicians to be responsive to Americans and show up to show that he’s on their team.
.@ZohranKMamdani leading a @Tesla protest.
New data from EV Intelligence, shared exclusively with Semafor, shows Tesla’s popularity tanking with self-identified Republicans, who are 11 percentage points less likely to buy one than they were in April, before Musk’s messy split from President Donald Trump.
First, Elon Musk lost Democratic car shoppers, who stopped buying Teslas and slapped apologetic bumper stickers on ones they already owned. Now, he’s losing Republicans.
Consumer perception of Tesla plummets among both Democrats and Republicans: survey | Semafor semafor.com/article/07/01/…
Consumer perception of Tesla plummets among both Democrats and Republicans: survey | Semafor semafor.com/article/07/01/…