{"id":213445,"date":"2021-03-29T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-mayoral-race-features-a-candidate-for-every-type-of-voter\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T03:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:18:00","slug":"nycs-mayoral-race-features-a-candidate-for-every-type-of-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-mayoral-race-features-a-candidate-for-every-type-of-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC’s mayoral race features a candidate for every type of voter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC’s mayoral race features a candidate for every type of voter<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s fashionable to say the New York mayoral race is a dud: No one is paying attention, the field is weak. False: The Democratic primary, fewer than three months away, is an embarrassment of riches. Whatever candidate you might conjure up \u2014 in policies or background \u2014 you can find. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n

The contrast\u00a0to the last two open elections couldn\u2019t be sharper. In 2013, when then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg couldn\u2019t run again, voters had their pick of four Democratic candidates. All had come up through Gotham\u2019s establishment politics: Bill de Blasio, public advocate and previously a councilman; John Liu, comptroller and ex-councilman; Christine Quinn, yet another city councilwoman (and speaker); Bill Thompson, a former comptroller; and Anthony Wiener, Brooklyn congressman and former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Twelve years before that, the Democratic field was even less \u00ad\u201cdiverse.\u201d Mark Green, Freddy Ferrer, Peter Vallone Sr., and Alan Hevesi\u00a0\u2014 all party creatures. None could bring a fresh eye. Voters picked the newcomer in the general<\/a> election: Bloomberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This time, no one can complain for lack of choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You want someone who resembles the prototype Democratic candidate, like most of the above? Scott Stringer, comptroller, has spent his whole life in Big App<\/a>le politics, and is the only candidate to have won a citywide election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You want someone who knows how Gotham politics work, knows how to build a coalition for whatever he wants to do and knows what New York can and can\u2019t do in Albany? Stringer\u2019s your guy. He also favors massive tax hikes on businesses and the wealthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer is the only candidate to have won a citywide election.
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Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The runner-up in having mastered the political machine is Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president. Adams grew up in poverty to become an NYPD captain. On taxes, he is more circumspect: He wants the wealthy to pay a little more, no different than the pro-business candidate, Ray McGuire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGuire, too, has an intriguing biography, having risen from, as he puts it, \u201cthe wrong side of the tracks\u201d to the top of Citigroup\u2019s \u00adinvestment bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams wants the wealthy to pay a little more.
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Anthony Behar\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He doesn\u2019t like it when people compare him to Bloomberg, but he is the closest the electorate will come to a neo-Bloomberg, if that\u2019s what they want. He will try to get New York out of its mess by pushing private-economy growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What if you want an apolitical manager, someone who has run not a team of millionaires, like McGuire, but run a huge city department? Someone who knows how to get the trash picked up and will know how to make sure city departments achieve her priorities?<\/p>\n

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Ray McGuire is the closest the city electorate will come to a neo-Bloomberg for pushing private-economy growth.
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Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0That would be Kathryn Garcia, former Sanitation Department head. She also warns that if we raise taxes on Wall Street, it could leave, and she thinks that police have a role in policing small crimes like open-air drug use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You want someone with less hands-on management of a huge public workforce, but who is used to dealing with a Washington \u00adbureaucracy? That would be Shaun Donovan, former city housing chief and former DC housing and budget director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Former Sanitation Department head Kathryn Garcia thinks NYPD has a role in policing small crimes like open-air drug use.
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William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How about something completely different? Dianne Morales is a former public-school teacher, and, at a nonprofit, spent years working with homeless kids. Maya Wiley was Mayor de Blasio\u2019s legal counsel, and she wants to transfer many policing jobs \u2014 such as\u00a0cutting crime \u2014 to nonpolice, both social<\/a> workers and \u201cviolence interrupters.\u201d If you\u2019re ready for a radically different approach to public safety, relative to the past 30 years, Wiley is your candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Former de Blasio legal counsel Maya Wiley wants to transfer many policing jobs to nonpolice employees such as social workers. <\/figcaption>
Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andrew Yang, another former nonprofit executive (and Democratic gadfly), has thought about what it takes for entrepreneurs to succeed. He also proposes giving cash to the poorest New Yorkers, no strings attached. He\u00a0wants more policing in the subways, and he isn\u2019t big on tax hikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Personality? You have to decide who you want to listen to on a screen for the next four years. Stringer and Yang are low-key; Garcia is direct; Adams is the opposite of low-key; Wiley is professionally crisp; Morales is empathetic; McGuire is a sophisticated cosmopolitan, right down to his background Zoom library; Donovan is technocratic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Former nonprofit executive Andrew Yang proposes giving cash to the poorest New Yorkers, no strings attached.
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John Nacion\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you are picky, and none of these people suits your fancy, you can wait until the general election in November, and vote Republican. But no one can complain that the race lacks choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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