{"id":125,"date":"2023-11-16T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=125"},"modified":"2023-12-18T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:00:40","slug":"max-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/max-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">Adams&#8217;s communications director left the administration to work for Pfizer, but will he come back to help his old boss win reelection in 2025?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Formerly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>New York Communications Director\/Deputy State Director, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VP of Global External Affairs, 100 Resilient Cities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chief External Affairs Officer for the MTA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Advisor, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chief Public Affairs Officer and Senior VP, Everytown for Gun Safety<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director of Communications for Mayor Eric Adams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Currently<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Vice President, Executive, Digital and Policy Communications, Pfizer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>When Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/031-22\/mayor-adams-additional-members-city-hall-press-team\">hired<\/a> Maxwell Young to oversee his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/23\/eric-adams-announces-seasoned-admin-including-social-services-boss\/\">communications operation<\/a> at City Hall, Young said he was looking forward to &#8220;telling the story of the dedicated public servants that work for our government.&#8221; Sometimes, this meant explaining away the ethical questions about the mayor&#8217;s after-hours activity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/22\/nyregion\/eric-adams-la-baia-zero-bond.html\">raised by the New York Times<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/05\/eric-adams-restaurant-00005935\">insisting to Politico<\/a> that no, Mayor Adams does not eat fish at his favorite Midtown Italian joint, only to watch as the mayor, two days after the report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/02\/07\/nyc-mayor-adams-admits-occasionally-eating-fish-despite-claiming-to-be-vegan\/\">admitted<\/a> his penchant for <em>pesce<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Young wasn&#8217;t fielding requests for comment from reporters, he was trying to help his boss bypass the media to reach New Yorkers. Adams mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2023\/01\/24\/mayor-launches-newsletter-to-circumvent-media--speak-directly-to-new-yorkers\">didn&#8217;t like<\/a> the coverage he was getting, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/eric-adams-wants-speak-you-directly\/388951\/\">didn&#8217;t want to go<\/a> on harder-hitting, live radio shows like his predecessor (yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2020\/06\/bill-de-blasio-brian-lehrer-call-in-police-violence\">sometimes Brian Lehrer is hard-hitting<\/a>!) The solution: a newsletter and a podcast\u2014&#8221;Hear from Eric&#8221; and &#8220;Get Stuff Done-Cast,&#8221; respectively, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/28\/two-top-city-hall-officials-exit-00094363\">two projects that Young spearheaded<\/a>. Currently, &#8220;Get Stuff Done-Cast,&#8221; which releases bimonthly episodes, has a <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/get-stuff-done-cast\/id1669043982\">4.1 star rating on Apple podcasts<\/a>, from seven ratings. (The most <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/get-stuff-done-cast\/id1669043982\">recent episode<\/a> from October 25 features the mayor and Kate MacKenzie, executive director of the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Food Policy. &#8220;Kate, sum it up, basically: food policy, your office, and what it actually does,&#8221; Adams says. &#8220;If someone&#8217;s out there on the street, you&#8217;re at a dinner party, you&#8217;re at a bar, restaurant, and some guy comes up and hit on you, how would you define your job?&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young was <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/City-Government\/Citywide-Payroll-Data-Fiscal-Year-\/k397-673e\/data\">earning<\/a> a $211,150 annual salary when he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxwellcyoung\/status\/1674844492220727298\">left<\/a> the administration in late June, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/09\/21\/adams-admins-departures-set-off-succession-battles-00057982\">several top deputies<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/28\/two-top-city-hall-officials-exit-00094363\">quit City Hall<\/a> around the same time. &#8220;People will leave, but one thing remains the same: our commitment to handling the crises we inherited, turning this city around, and improving the lives of all New Yorkers,&#8221; Young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/14\/nyregion\/eric-adams-keechant-sewell.html\">told the Times<\/a> in June when his departure was announced. In early September, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxwellcyoung\/status\/1700207842941116863\">announced<\/a> he was working at Pfizer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once you&#8217;re in Adams&#8217;s orbit, it&#8217;s not easy to leave: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/28\/two-top-city-hall-officials-exit-00094363\">Politico reported<\/a> that Young is &#8220;expected to be involved in Adams&#8217;s re-election bid in 2025.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I left City Hall I said I would do whatever the campaign needed to help Mayor Adams get re-elected, and I feel that just as strongly now,&#8221; Young told Hell Gate when we sent him a list of questions. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of my work in the administration, proud to have worked for Eric, and believe he was and is the best person for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked if that meant that he&#8217;d be helping the Adams campaign by working for it, Young clarified that this meant his role would not be in the official campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still hungry?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/28\/two-top-city-hall-officials-exit-00094363\">Two top City Hall officials head for the exit<\/a> | Politico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/07\/nyregion\/eric-adams-fish-vegan.html\">Did Eric Adams, an Avowed Vegan, Eat Fish? 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