NYC Mayor/2021 Megathread

[The Free North]

Yang will be one of the best mayor's the city has ever had. Can't wait for him to shovel the current loser out of office and install some blessed UBI in a city that so desperately needs it.

[KaiserDave]

Yang will be one of the best mayor's the city has ever had. Can't wait for him to shovel the current loser out of office and install some blessed UBI in a city that so desperately needs it.

He's not proposing UBI anymore lol

[Progressive Pessimist]

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

[NewYorkExpress]

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

Don't forget, Bill Clinton is currently a registered New York voter.

[ChineseConservative]

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

Spitzer? In 2021 hindsight he should have pulled a Northam/Cuomo.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1387959844263665667?s=20

New Poll, albeit conducted before the Stringer affair so probably not entirely useful.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It's not a lock for Yang just yet, though obviously he is in a very good position right now.

[KaiserDave]

Useless poll.

It's an Adams vs Yang race, NYC is in big big trouble.

[Duke of York]

It's not a lock for Yang just yet, though obviously he is in a very good position right now.

He is still the frontrunner but Adams has clear momentum right now and could pull it off.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It's not a lock for Yang just yet, though obviously he is in a very good position right now.

He is still the frontrunner but Adams has clear momentum right now and could pull it off.

Is Adams going to be winning the bulk of Stringer's voters?

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

It's not a lock for Yang just yet, though obviously he is in a very good position right now.

He is still the frontrunner but Adams has clear momentum right now and could pull it off.

I just threw up a little

[Duke of York]

It's not a lock for Yang just yet, though obviously he is in a very good position right now.

He is still the frontrunner but Adams has clear momentum right now and could pull it off.

As Of the latest poll it seems like a possibility.

[Oryxslayer]

Stringer argues that the only reason she is coming forward was to damage his candidacy and...

https://twitter.com/GloriaPazmino/status/1388136590837534726?s=20



Adding ethnic insensitively/assumptions onto the pile wasn't smart.  

[Lambsbread]

Jesus Christ, how could you manage to make things WORSE?!

[StateBoiler]

Stringer argues that the only reason she is coming forward was to damage his candidacy and...

https://twitter.com/GloriaPazmino/status/1388136590837534726?s=20



Adding ethnic insensitively/assumptions onto the pile wasn't smart.  

Leaving aside Stringer and his team, that is horrifically damning on NY1 and whoever was the independent corroborator at the New York City Board of Elections. I understand dealing with public figures there's a higher bar on these issues, but if the NY1 journalist or the independent corroborator at the NYC BOE knew it was Esther Yang and not Andrew Yang, that's open-and-shut libel for knowing the truth and intentionally lying about it. The only other explanation is you didn't know it was Esther instead of Andrew, which means you're incompetent for checking a simple fact, which means the NY1 journalist should be at best demoted or lose his or her job reporting on local politics.

Here's your absolute best case scenario for that journalist:

Journalist: "How you doing anonymous secret inside source? Did Jean Kim file a ballot petition for Yang?"

NYC BOE employee looks up records, sees ballot petition for Yang, Esther. Responds "yes".

[Tintrlvr]

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

Spitzer? In 2021 hindsight he should have pulled a Northam/Cuomo.

Spitzer didn't sexually harass anyone (as far as we know publicly anyway); He hired prostitutes and used campaign funds to pay them. Also sex-related but a quite different scandal.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

New York ain’t sending its best…

[LabourJersey]

WFP and multiple state legislators have rescinded endorsements.

How long will Stringer stay in at this rate?

Though I guess RCV would mitigate the impact of a zombie Stringer campaign that somehow lasts til election day.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

I honestly don't even know who I'm going to vote for. I'm definitely not voting for Scott Stringer though (I wasn't voting for him even before the allegation).

[KaiserDave]

As I said, Scott is going to hemorrhage endorsements, he should drop out before he loses all dignity he has left.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

As I said, Scott is going to hemorrhage endorsements, he should drop out before he loses all dignity he has left.

He’s following the Cuomo model, just ignore everything and continue

[Progressive Pessimist]

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

Don't forget, Bill Clinton is currently a registered New York voter.

Cuomo, Massa, Schneiderman, Weiner, and now Stringer. I don't want to jump to conclusions but New York Democrats have a real problem with their personal relationships with others.

Spitzer? In 2021 hindsight he should have pulled a Northam/Cuomo.

How could I have forgotten about these two! It just keeps getting worse!

[Suburbia]

What do you guys think of Democratic City Council candidates Tony Avella and Robert Holden, who are running to represent white ethnic Queens neighborhoods getting the support of the police unions?

https://twitter.com/TonyAvella/status/1384281446467002370

https://twitter.com/BobHoldenNYC/status/1373052492423004160

[Donerail]

Leaving aside Stringer and his team, that is horrifically damning on NY1 and whoever was the independent corroborator at the New York City Board of Elections. I understand dealing with public figures there's a higher bar on these issues, but if the NY1 journalist or the independent corroborator at the NYC BOE knew it was Esther Yang and not Andrew Yang, that's open-and-shut libel for knowing the truth and intentionally lying about it. The only other explanation is you didn't know it was Esther instead of Andrew, which means you're incompetent for checking a simple fact, which means the NY1 journalist should be at best demoted or lose his or her job reporting on local politics.

There is a third scenario: you not understanding how petitions work. Jean Kim did file petitions that helped get Andrew Yang on the ballot. Kim was circulating a petition that included the names of four candidates for different offices — a signature on the petition helps get all of those candidates on the ballot. You can see an example if you click on the article.

There is no Yang/Yang mixup here; both Kim and the Stringer camp agree that she circulated petitions that included Andrew Yang. The question is whether it's fair to characterize this as "working for Andrew Yang" — Kim is arguing that her primary motivation was supporting her friend Esther Yang.

[brucejoel99]

Unrelated to the recent topic of discussion, but still news: Yang says that he'll approach Garcia about joining his administration, should he win the mayoralty.