TOPEKA —For the second time in recent months, New York City Mayor Eric Adams made remarks critical of Kansas. Governor Laura Kelly is asking for an apology.
(click to watch Mayor Adams' latest comment on Kansas)
At an interfaith breakfast this week, Adams criticized Topeka, according to his YouTube page. “God said, ‘I’m going to take the most broken person and I’m going to elevate him to the place of being the mayor of the most powerful city on the globe. He could have made me the mayor of Topeka, Kansas. He could have made me the mayor of some small town or village somewhere.”
“I was in NYC visiting my granddaughter when you disparaged my hometown Topeka Kansas,” Kelly wrote on twitter. “It was this granddaughter who, with her parents, delivered Kansas kindness to you at Gracie Mansion when you disparaged my state last September. Enough already. You owe Kansas an apology.”
In September, the 110th mayor of New York City said Kansas doesn't have a brand. "New York has a brand, and when people see it means something. Kansas doesn't have a brand. When you go there it's OK, you’re from Kansas," Adams said.
In October, Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark visited with Adams and took him a basketball jersey from the University of Kansas, the defending national champions.