{"id":29924,"date":"2025-11-05T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29924\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:54:08","slug":"live-updates-from-somos-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29924\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates from Somos 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every year, win or lose, high or low, the Democratic political class returns to San Juan for the Somos conference. We\u2019re reporting live from all the receptions, pool parties and late night chats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m. \u2013 Packed airplanes of sleep-deprived politicos are headed down to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday morning. On the heels of a dizzying mayoral race \u2013 and with a breakneck transition period already underway \u2013 New York\u2019s political power players have plenty to discuss. Among the pressing topics: Who will be the next speaker of the City Council? Who will join Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration \u2013 and which, if any, of the current Adams administration official might be asked to stay on apart from NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch?<\/p>\n

Some people on the City & State flight who might have some opinions include City Council speaker candidate Julie Menin, Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Louis Molina, Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 chief of staff Camille Joseph Varlack and Deputy Mayor Ana Almanzar. Also spotted: Assembly Members Kalman Yeger and Grace Lee, New York Immigration Coalition President and CEO Murad Awawdeh, Hotel and Gaming Trades Council Political Director Bhav Tibrewal and New York City Council Member-elect Harvey Epstein.<\/p>\n

But state Attorney General Letitia James stole the show at the JFK gate, eliciting an impromptu round of applause<\/a> on arrival. She was in high spirits after Mamdani\u2019s victory last night. \u201cI\u2019m feeling good,\u201d she told City & State. \u201cIt\u2019s a brand new day, a new dawning.\u201d James promised to continue standing up to President Donald Trump, who had said he would send the National Guard to New York if Mamdani won. Trump tacitly endorsed Andrew Cuomo as an alternative to keep Mamdani out of office, though that obviously did not pan out.<\/p>\n

And on the topic of Cuomo, James had some parting words for her onetime ally and more recent foe: \u201cGod bless you. Have a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Annie McDonough, Rebecca C. Lewis and Sahalie Donaldson<\/p>\n

10 a.m. \u2013 Drinks will flow unabated and without guilt into the wee hours of the morning at the Fairmont El San Juan hotel bar this week. For a minute, it looked like<\/a> New York politicos\u2019 favorite late night spot might be taken out of the rotation, thanks to a planned boycott by the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and Unite Here, Local 610 over a contract dispute. Several dozen elected officials signed on, but the situation stood to put politicians with hefty campaign chests and well-heeled lobbyists who had already booked rooms at the swanky hotel in an awkward position. Just a couple weeks before the conference, however, the hotel workers\u2019 unions reached an agreement with the Fairmont that included the wage increases and benefits they were pushing for. We\u2019ll see you at the bar. \u2013 Annie McDonough<\/p>\n

9 a.m. \u2013 Assembly Member Karines Reyes, who is chair of the Puerto Rican\/Hispanic Task Force, talked with City & State about what she\u2019s looking forward to this year. \u201cI think the overall feeling will be more hopeful than it was last year. We can possibly make history in this mayoral election in New York. There will be moments to celebrate during this conference, and I think that\u2019s a marked difference from last year\u2019s.\u201d Read more here.<\/a> \u2013 Ralph R. Ortega<\/p>\n

8 a.m. \u2013 Which City Council speaker candidate\u2019s reception will be the most well-attended? Who will be seen angling for a job? Why does Somos still matter? We asked the experts,\u00a0including Karines Reyes, Joe Borelli, Corey Johnson, Trip Yang, Yvette Buckner and Roberto Perez.\u00a0Read more here.<\/a> \u2013 Holly Pretsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, win or lose, high or low, the Democratic political class returns to San Juan for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3066,9,11,10,49,51,50,2327,15846],"class_list":["post-29924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-heard-around-town","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news-politics","tag-somos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924","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=29924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}