Dozens of other municipal candidates also cashed in on the first round of payments from the city’s matching funds system. Candidates who accept public financing agree to abide by spending limits and, if they are seeking citywide offices, to participate in televised debates.
Four from the large field of Democratic challengers have released very detailed proposals. Others have talked more broadly about the need for a national housing strategy.
Go ahead and diss Hizzoner’s apparent flirtation with a run for the highest office in the land. Just do it for the right reasons.
There’s ‘outside’ as in out the parking lot, and then there’s ‘outside’ like outside in the woods next to the highway.
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.
Democrats will face high expectations to deliver, deprived of the excuse of Republican obstruction. The state GOP, meanwhile, faces a period of self-examination after an historic defeat.
‘It took me an hour and ten minutes to vote,’ one woman said. ‘Do you believe that?’
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While Andrew Cuomo’s economic record and rhetoric are complicated, Republican challenger Marcus Molinaro largely proposes a familiar menu of tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and spending restrictions.
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