By COLlive reporter
The newest contender to join the race to become mayor of New York City is the tech entrepreneur and a former presidential Democratic candidate Andrew Yang.
Yang, a lawyer and executive who is now a political commentator on CNN, filed papers with the city’s Campaign Finance Board, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
The race to succeed Bill de Blasio, limited by term limits, is already crowded with over 35 individuals signing up to run. The Democratic primary election in New York City will be on June 22, 2021.
Among those running are Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, former U.S. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Ray McGuire, former vice chairman of Citigroup Inc.
The 2021 mayoral election will be the first using ranked-choice voting, in which ballots will permit voters to rank their five most favorite candidates, Bloomberg news reported.
The entrepreneur already enjoys a slight lead in the race with 2 recent polls giving him an edge over Adams, a former Captain in the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Yang has national name recognition, having drawn an enthusiastic following during the presidential Democratic primaries. He called for universal basic income – $1,000 a month for every American over 18 which would be funded by a tax on companies such as Amazon benefitting from automation.
Despite his loyal and young followers labeling themselves the “Yang Gang,” he ended up suspended his campaign on February 11, 2020, clearing the path for Joe Biden to run as the Democratic nominee against President Donald Trump.
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Can’t be worse than the what NYC managed to put in office (twice) now. As its stands things are getting so bad here, we’re on the road towards losing a seat in Congress (YAY!). It’s unlikely that he’s a critical race theory monger, but anything possible. Can’t find anything about him other than that he’s a Democrat and that he’s most famous for advocating a UBI or Universal Basic Income. It’s basically giving $1000 per month to every adult. Expensive. About 4.5 Trillion per year. It’s not a stupid but an incredibly naive idea. It’s good in theory but dangerous… Read more »
If Yang tries to use UBI in New York then it will destroy New York since it’s expensive and NYC is already doing bad.
First he was supposedly a Californian.
Then he carpetbagged to Georgia, to illegally vote _there_ in the upcoming U.S. Senate elections.
And now he’s calling himself a NEW YORKER and he’s ready to be our mayor?
Next thing you know he’ll be off to Eretz Yisrael to run for Prime Minister there!
Can you spell “sleazy opportunist”?
You have a democrat you want another socialist
Andrew Yang would make an excellent mayor. Smart, unpretentious, straight-shooter, pragmatist. I know, these qualities are a turn-off for some people. They prefer a narcissistic man with no personal morals, history of bankruptcies and unethical business practices to be in the executive office. To each his own.
He will make it harder to get it
Andrew Yang is a Mentch who thinks outside the box. We could use more of that in place of reactionary tribalism. If a Democrat is going to win either way, he’s not a bad choice.
“Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a bar code they can download to their phone? There ought to be.”
said the very same Andrew Yang last week.
Say, why bother with barcodes? Yellow stars are much easier, and time-tested.
Some “decent, straight-shooting fellow” we’ve got here.
our great country is almost over. its time to stop the madness. hopefully our great president will bring in the military and stay put. if G-D FORBID the elections wont declare Trump our president , democracy is over and we will never vote again. they will mandate vaccine shots then yellow stars and eventually the gas chambers . its so easy to see this , time for everyone to open their eyes. i hope im wrong, but i know im not. history repeats itself all the time unless we stop it .
An endorsement for Eric Adams!
Eric Adams has been borough president of Brooklyn for years now, has a close history with the Jewish communities, was a police officer – will respect them and give them the funding they need, actually is a New Yorker, and is very moderate (at least in today’s standards) compared to Yang who is a full on socialist!