Council Member Julie Received and her husband, Eugene Noh, are denouncing what they name “sexist” and “misogynistic” scrutiny of their relationship following Noh’s appointment as marketing campaign supervisor for Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election bid.
Noh, a longtime political strategist and advisor, was formally introduced as Adams’ marketing campaign supervisor in a press launch on Wednesday, July 9. The appointment drew consideration as a consequence of Received’s current endorsement of Adams’ opponent, Zohran Mamdani, forward of the Democratic major final month, prompting a spate of media tales inspecting their political variations.
Each Received and Noh have dismissed the protection as sexist, arguing that neither partner ought to be held accountable for the opposite’s skilled choices.
Adams withdrew from the Democratic major amid a federal corruption probe that severely broken his standing throughout the get together. He launched his unbiased re-election marketing campaign on Thursday, June 26.
Noh confirmed to QNS that he had joined Adams’ workforce as marketing campaign supervisor.
A veteran of high-profile political races in New York—together with former U.S. Rep. Max Rose’s unsuccessful 2022 re-election bid—Noh mentioned he was drawn to the Adams marketing campaign due to its underdog standing.
“Having followed Mayor Adams’s career and his time in office, I knew that he was not the man that he was portrayed and characterized to be,” Noh mentioned. “I built my career on helping underdogs towards upset victories. That’s what I do, and I think that this is the biggest, most consequential race that I could be working on.”
Adams is extensively thought-about an underdog within the normal election after Mamdani’s resounding victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in final month’s Democratic major.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams, and Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani. Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Mamdani’s marketing campaign gained momentum by way of broad progressive assist, together with Received’s endorsement in the beginning of June. Received had spent a lot of the previous 12 months publicly calling on Adams to resign.
“I think it belies a lazy and, to be honest, a sexist press corps in New York City,” Noh mentioned. “It’s pretty clear that the Council Member and I are two very different people. Even though we are married to each other, it does not mean that the sport of politics is the only thing that we have in common that we discuss.”
Noh mentioned the couple is targeted on elevating their two younger sons, and that politics is basically stored out of their house life.
“The debates don’t arise, and the trauma that I think people wish was there in our home life is non-existent,” he mentioned. “We are just a couple raising our kids, trying to figure out how we’re going to give them the best life that we can.”
Received echoed these sentiments, emphasizing that they’re unbiased people.
“Clearly, we are individuals with different political views, as people have witnessed over the years,” she mentioned. “I don’t even understand what generation we’re in now that people still feel the need to ask a woman to answer for their husband.”
Received, who represents the twenty sixth Council district in Western Queens, which covers the neighborhoods of Lengthy Island Metropolis, Sunnyside, Astoria, and Woodside, referred to as it sexist to anticipate her to touch upon Noh’s skilled decisions.
“I do not request permission for endorsements when I make endorsements or discuss them with my husband, the same way he’s had hundreds of clients over his professional career. It is exhausting that in 2025 I am expected to answer for my husband or be responsible for his political views,” she added. “The sexism and misogyny needs to be named and checked.”
Received additionally famous that the couple intentionally avoids discussing politics at house for the sake of their kids.
“We both know we have differing perspectives on politics and policies, so we don’t discuss it at home, especially because we have two little kids now,” she mentioned. “A three-year-old can’t tell the difference between fighting amongst parents and a healthy debate over policies that we disagree on, so we just don’t talk about it at all.”
Noh acknowledged previous errors and mentioned political opponents have tried to make use of them to break Received’s credibility.
“I know how this game is played,” he mentioned. “The powers that be were looking to discredit my wife, but she has lived a very clean, goody-two-shoes, by-the-book and dignified life.”
“They were not commands to go and do these things, but just to add some humor. And I did apologize at the time the story broke for anybody it may have offended,” he mentioned.
Waiting for November, Noh mentioned he expects excessive voter turnout and believes Adams can enchantment to a rising variety of unaffiliated voters, who now comprise roughly 20% of the town’s voters, in accordance with the Marketing campaign Finance Board.
He additionally expressed hope that Cuomo wouldn’t pursue an unbiased bid.
“First, I congratulate Zohran on his historic victory,” Noh mentioned. “I admit he may have run an incredible campaign, but Andrew Cuomo, for all intents and purposes, did his best Hillary Clinton or Joe Crowley impression. He hid in a corner and assumed that his name recognition would carry him to victory.”
Noh argued that Cuomo missed his alternative to remain within the race and mentioned Adams nonetheless has a path ahead.
“With all that said, I believe that with an incredibly disciplined and high-energy operation, we’ll be able to show New Yorkers exactly what Eric Adams has been able to do for them.”
Adams’ re-election marketing campaign contains a number of different high-profile additions: Frank Carone, the mayor’s former chief of employees, is serving as marketing campaign chair; Michelle Minguez, government director of Latino Financial Empowerment and Growth, is deputy marketing campaign supervisor; PR specialist Todd Shapiro has joined as communications director; and New York Submit journalist and opinion author David Kaufman is serving as a marketing campaign advisor.
