{"id":122926,"date":"2026-02-04T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122926\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:56:09","slug":"kathy-hochul-picks-adrienne-adams-for-lieutenant-governor-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122926\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul picks Adrienne Adams for lieutenant governor \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governor has found her running mate. <\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat up for re-election later this year, has named former NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to run for New York lieutenant governor. The governor made the announcement Wednesday on social media. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I picked a New Yorker from Southeast Queens. Someone who grew up in a union household, just like I did. A fighter who knows how to deliver for New York,&#8221; Hochul said in a post on X. <\/p>\n<p>Adams most recently ran for mayor in a crowded field of Democrats vying to replace Eric Adams. <\/p>\n<p>Hochul&#8217;s current lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, decided to run for governor. On the right, they face a Republican challenge from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exciting announcement: I have a running mate.<\/p>\n<p>I picked a New Yorker from Southeast Queens. Someone who grew up in a union household, just like I did. A fighter who knows how to deliver for New York.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the team my friend \u2013 and our next Lieutenant Governor \u2013\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lqv51fRm9d\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Lqv51fRm9d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathy Hochul (@KathyHochul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KathyHochul\/status\/2019106975443832923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What to know about Adrienne Adams<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-28\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne\u00a0Eadie\u00a0Adams was elected by her colleagues as Speaker of the New York City Council in January 2022\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; becoming the city&#8217;s first-ever African American speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Adams was first elected to the City Council in 2017 to represent District 28. (District 28 is made up of the Queens&#8217; neighborhoods of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale Village and South Ozone Park.)<\/p>\n<p>Adams has worked to tackle issues plaguing the city, including advancing women&#8217;s health by expanding access to reproductive healthcare and supporting crime victims.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Adams (no relation to current Mayor Eric Adams) is a mother and lifelong New Yorker (Queens&#8217; native).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The governor has found her running mate. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat up for re-election later this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,87],"class_list":["post-122926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}