Mayor Adams is expected to tap Eugene Noh, a longtime New York political consultant with a history of inflammatory rhetoric, as his reelection campaign manager, the Daily News has learned.
Noh, who’s also the husband of progressive and anti-Adams Queens Councilwoman Julie Won, is expected to be formally announced for the new position as early as this week, according to multiple sources.
Noh declined to comment Tuesday. An Adams campaign rep didn’t immediately return messages.
The new gig for Noh comes as Adams faces long odds in November’s general mayoral election, in which he’s running as an independent after dropping out of the Democratic primary this spring amid fallout from his federal corruption indictment. The Democratic mayoral nominee in November’s race is Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a socialist endorsed by Noh’s wife and other progressives.
Noh has worked for his wife’s political operations as well as a number of other high-profile campaigns in New York, including former Staten Island Congressman Max Rose’s failed 2022 reelection bid.
While serving as Rose’s campaign manager, Noh was caught on tape telling staffers to take extreme steps to turn out the vote for the congressman.
That included Noh urging the staffers to “take a lot of Adderall” or even “smoke meth or do cocaine,” remarks that The News first reported in 2023, prompting Noh to offer an apology. On the tape, he was also heard encouraging staffers to pull fire alarms in apartment buildings with polling sites in order to get residents downstairs to vote.
Additionally, The News reported in 2023 that Noh had over a decade earlier been kicked off Twitter for breaking the site’s rules after, among other things, using the N-word.
In addition to Mamdani, Adams is in November’s election expected to face Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, independent Jim Walden and, potentially, Andrew Cuomo.
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