This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

After years at a standstill, the "Stop Super Speeders" bill, sponsored by state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, will be included in the final state budget – that is, whenever there’s a final deal. Drivers in the five boroughs who rack up 16 or more speed camera tickets per year will be required to install speed-limiting devices in their vehicles that would prevent them from driving too fast – similar to a car breathalyzer or ignition interlock device that stops convicted drunken drivers from driving if they’ve had alcohol.

It’s a special feat to be endorsed by both billionaires and Bernie bros. Assembly Member Alex Bores, who’s running for Congress in NY-12, pulled it off in the span of a week. A new billionaire, crypto company founder Chris Larsen, dropped into the race to pledge $3.5 million in support of Bores’ campaign on May 1. And the Bernie Sanders-founded group Our Revolution endorsed Bores six days later.

Remember all those blind quotes about how Kathy Wylde was going too easy on Mamdani as CEO of the Partnership for New York City? “It was pretty clear that they were looking for someone who was much harder-hitting than Kathy,” someone told New York Magazine. She may have left the Partnership, but Wylde remains a liaison between CEOs and City Hall. This week, the mayor tweeted a photo with her and the CEO of Chobani Hamdi Ulukaya after what he described as a “productive meeting.”

Talk shit, get demoted. Such was the case for James Wilson, a Brooklyn police captain who was transferred to a 911 call center in the NYPD’s communications division after he was caught on video criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Wilson had described the mayor as “nonsense,” “an embarrassment,” “temporary” and “not my boss.” The latter, of course, was promptly proven false after the NYPD responded by giving him a far less prestigious post while a full investigation is carried out. 

After both Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle took pains to prove they're the real progressive in the race for state comptroller, the state Working Families Party wound up endorsing neither of them. The two insurgents clearly wanted the third party’s backing, which could have helped supercharge either one of their campaigns against longtime incumbent Tom DiNapoli for a position most voters probably don't think about much. Instead, the WFP voted against endorsing anyone.

Maybe Harvard’s Seminar for New Presidents should teach “don’t hit students with your car” and “Satan's not your friend.” When Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff found his car surrounded by heckling students, he proceeded to back up, striking two people. And Bard College President Leon Botstein is out after a new report detailed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein – which included donations, a trip to Epstein’s notorious island, consulting for Epstein and calling him “an ordinary sex offender.” The report also quoted Botstein as saying he’d take Satan’s money.