The former speaker joined Max & Murphy to talk about NYCHA, the need for a woman’s voice at the citywide level, and what she thinks of the anti-gay comments of a Bronx Councilmember.
Sixteen people are running for a post with a staff smaller than an NFL team’s active roster, a budget less than one-fifteenth of one percent of the police department’s and a funky assortment of duties and powers. Does the race matter?
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Do your homework on the 16 candidates running in the February 26 election to be the No. 2 citywide official.
There’s ‘outside’ as in out the parking lot, and then there’s ‘outside’ like outside in the woods next to the highway.
It costs money for the subways and buses to collect and process fares. It creates a crime that we have to figure out how to fairly police. And, even with discounted fares, it makes transit an unavoidable cost burden to lower-income people. So why not make it free?
Job No. 1, the journalist and activist says, would be to take the public advocate out of the mayoral line of succession.
The Queens Assemblymember would ask Washington to forgive student debt, or transfer it to cities and states to administer. Barring that, he’d move to seize it using eminent domain.
One of the MTA’s proposed fare hike options would raise the base fare to $3 a ride, which Access-a-Ride users say would unfairly burden them since they aren’t eligible for the MetroCard bonuses that subway and bus riders are.
More than a dozen contenders participated in the debate, hosted by the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund at Brooklyn Law School.