Five takeaways from the first New York City Democratic mayoral debate
But on Thursday night, the eight leading Democratic candidates to succeed the outgoing, term-limited Mayor Bill de Blasio finally received top billing at their first official debate. Though they shared the spotlight, they did not share a stage, as the gathering took place over Zoom which squeezed some of the juice out of the evening’s more heated exchanges.
Businessman and former 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Andrew Yang, Brooklyn borough president and former police officer Eric Adams, civil rights lawyer and former de Blasio counsel Maya Wiley, former nonprofit executive Dianne Morales, former New York Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia fresh off her endorsement by the New York Times Editorial Board New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and ex-Citigroup executive Ray McGuire all took part Hollywood Squares-style in
Friday, May 14, 2021 by: Ethan Huff
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/516424.html (Natural News) New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer was the leading progressive Democratic candidate for city mayor until his reputation was destroyed by the leftist establishment last week. False allegations of sexual assault –
sound familiar? – were manufactured out of nowhere, dashing his hopes of being elected. And it was just another day for the establishment Democrat Party.
In case you have not figured it out yet, leftists will destroy your life without a second thought if doing so will protect their stranglehold on power. Establishment conservatives are much the same, but leftists seem to have an added penchant for making up wild stories about their opponents, ruining not just their careers but also their livelihoods.
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The median sales price in the borough is $900,000.
The Times’s editorial board noted that Donovan later emailed to say that he was referring to the “assessed value of homes in Brooklyn.”
“I really don’t think you can buy a house in Brooklyn today for that little,” he wrote, according to the Times’s editorial board.
But a slate of journalists and other Twitter users were quick to jab the candidates for their far-off responses on the city’s housing.
.@RayForMayor & @ShaunDonovanNYC both think a home in Brooklyn costs $100K.
How can you fix the city’s housing crisis if you’re this oblivious? pic.twitter.com/fW9fWeCXbU Monica Klein (@MonicaCKlein) May 11, 2021
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Candidates for mayor of New York City have made their cases this year in Zoom forums and delivered impassioned stump speeches, but there may be no pitch as effortlessly engaging as a candidate joyfully dancing toward a camera, telling New Yorkers she’s “on her way to replace Bill de Blasio as NYC’s first afro latina mayor.” That’s what former nonprofit leader Dianne Morales did in one of her TikTok videos last fall, amassing over half a million views.
Morales has combined effective online communication and organizing with the farthest-left platform in the race to amass a progressive, young fan base that has propelled her from a relatively unknown nonprofit leader to a champion of the left. Morales supporters congregate on online platforms such as TikTok, Twitter and even the audio chatroom Clubhouse. On Twitter especially, fans of the candidate can be spotted easily by their profile photos set against purple, pink and orange gradient backgrounds. This sunset-color