There are seven people on the November 7 ballot for mayor. Four managed to get a spot on the stage of a televised debate. But Akeem Browder, Aaron Commey and Michael Tolkin have had to find other ways to make their cases.
It is possible that as few as one in every 275 city voters tuned in to this week’s televised debates for the offices of public advocate and comptroller. Those who did turn it on saw exactly what a debate is supposed to show.
A little bit of substance managed to wiggle in among the shouting, heckling, cross-talking and attacks on the media.
The public advocate discussed her approach to the job and her plans for a likely second term.
The minister said the city’s budget was extremely vulnerable to an economic downturn, blamed big government for racial disparities and says he’d still vote for Donald Trump.
J.C. Polanco wants to keep Rikers open, issue voter IDs, expand charter schools, privatize public housing and put the public advocate in charge of homeless services and child welfare. His bid to unseat Letitia James might lack money, but it doesn’t want for unorthodox ideas.
Scenes from the campaign trail and the city that went on around it.
Does the mayor face a general election challenge? What do the results in his race and all the others mean? Does low turnout diminish the victors?
The former Council speaker and 2005 mayoral candidate talks about what it’s like in the closing moments of a long campaign, reveals that “The Wedding Crashers” was a source of strength as the ’05 race ground on, and belts out his signature song: La Borinqueña.
Albanese described a plan that revolved around thinning out the population on the island and then closing the facilities there that displayed the worst conditions.
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