Andrew Cuomo, who, like Adams, is running as an independent after a humbling loss in the Democratic primary to socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, handed out bags of chips to reporters at a campaign event where he called Chipgate “embarrassing.”
Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor also running as an independent, reupped his call for a citywide department of public integrity.
And Curtis Sliwa — the Guardian Angels founder again running on the Republican line four years after he was handily defeated by then-Democrat Adams — said he had predicted the corruption of the mayor “and his cronies” years ago…