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Twitter What to watch for this week in New York politics: This week will be dominated by dissection of and fallout from the new state budget, a $175.5 billion spending and policy plan agreed to by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature over the weekend. Items like a new congestion pricing plan for New York City and making permanent the 2 percent annual property tax cap for all areas outside the city span both fiscal and policy areas. The City Council has a quieter week after just having wrapped up an intense month of hearings on Mayor de Blasio’s $92 billion preliminary budget. The mayor’s executive budget, which will take into account the Council hearings and response, as well as the new state budget, and more, is due toward the end of this month. There are some City Council hearings this week, plus other events around the city -- see our day-by-day rundown below. ***Do you have events or topics for us to include in an upcoming Week Ahead in New York Politics? e-mail Gotham Gazette editor Ben Max: bmax@gothamgazette.com*** The run of the week in detail: Monday At 8:15 a.m. Monday, NYC Health + Hospitals President Mitchell Katz will speak to the Citizens Budget Commission at the Yale Club. Tuesday The New York State Legislature will be in session on Tuesday in Albany. At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio will speak to the Atlantic’s “Renewal Summit” at CNVS in Midtown, discussing “how cities like New York can keep growing, while staying true to those who have long called it home.” At the City Council on Wednesday: --The Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting, and Maritime Uses will meet at 10:45 a.m. --The Committee on Land Use will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday At the City Council on Thursday: The Committee on Technology will meet at 1 p.m. for an oversight hearing regarding “automated decision systems used by agencies.” At 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the Rent Guidelines Board will meet at the Landmarks Preservation Commission Conference Room in the Manhattan Municipal Building. Mayor de Blasio may make his weekly appearance on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show on Friday at 10 a.m. *** Have events or topics for us to include in an upcoming Week Ahead in New York Politics?

AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the headlines you might’ve missed this weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. Here’s what we’re watching through the weekend, topics may change on Monday. Report: FBI agent Peter Strzok, who criticized President Trump in texts to colleague, fired Omarosa Manigault Newman releases recording of White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly firing her in Situation Room Update on Tuesday primaries, Kris Kobach recuses self from Kansas governor race vote count Kavanaugh hearings set for September 4 Manafort trial latest POTUS announces (on Twitter) doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum from Turkey Planned white nationalist rally over weekend turns out more counter-protesters than rally-goers Guests: Ange-Marie Hancock-Alfaro, professor of political science and chair of gender studies at USC; she tweets @AngeMarieH Sean T. Walsh, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting in San Francisco; he is a former adviser to California Governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a former White House staffer for Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush

Yet looming over him was fallout from a secret audio recording of a private conversation between Cagle and Clay Tippins, a former Republican primary rival who finished fourth in the May 22 gubernatorial primary. “Obviously, it was a private conversation that was supposed to be confidential,” Cagle said Saturday in an interview with The Times. “It doesn’t change the fact that I certainly said what I said, but it was in the context of a political discussion by which he wanted to have.” By pushing the bill, which Cagle said in the audio was “bad policy,” the Walton Family Foundation, an education policy super PAC “that was getting ready to put $3 million behind Hunter Hill,” backed out. “Politics is sometimes ... it has to be created in a way that builds consensus,” Cagle said during the grand opening of his Gainesville headquarters. “It’s good public policy and that is indicative of the overwhelming support in both the Senate and the House, among the Republican party and the fact that the governor signed it,” Cagle said. Absolutely.” Cagle said he wants voters to consider his record, to look at what he’s done for public education and educational choice over the years. “The record is a record that is pro-education. “I would like for him to have a good set of moral values, which I do think Casey does or I wouldn’t have voted for him, but I don’t expect him to be the pastor. I’m not looking to him for that.” Debbie Morrin, a Hall County resident, said she only cares about finding the right person for the job, and still thinks that person is Cagle. I wouldn’t vote for anybody else.” On whether or not Cagle has spoken to Tippins since the recording was released or whether he plans to, Cagle said: “No, no, no, no.

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