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13 Dec 2020, 3:15 pm

Normally I don't get excited about politics unless I see a proper complex-systems technocrat taking the lead. Yang's one of those people I'd bet on.

It'll be interesting to see whether it happens. He clearly has name power from his presidential run last year. What I'd obviously love to see happen if this does come to fruition - he takes it, works on NYC in the fashion that his policy positions in the presidential race lined up, and when stumped he calls up Daniel Schachtenberger or Jordan Hall, or has a chat with Gar Arperovitz, or has Samo Burja and Bismarck Analysis take a crack at the problem and help him sort through the quotes and proposals coming in from the contractors. That's obviously not to say that becomes King of New York, just that I trust his grasp on who know what they're talking about and who to position where to get things done - mainly because he actually had the right maps of the current moment to work from.


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14 Dec 2020, 8:53 am

NYC has had a lot of success with Bloomberg, so it is pleasing to see Yang getting in touch with Bloomberg’s people. Certainly can’t do any worse than De Blasio.



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14 Dec 2020, 12:53 pm

The_Walrus wrote:
NYC has had a lot of success with Bloomberg, so it is pleasing to see Yang getting in touch with Bloomberg’s people. Certainly can’t do any worse than De Blasio.


None of them will be as cool as Ed “How’m I doin” Koch, though.


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24 Dec 2020, 3:04 am

Andrew Yang’s run for NYC mayor is now official

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He’s in.

Andrew Yang, who rose to prominence during a longshot presidential run, is throwing his hat into next year’s mayoral race.

The City Campaign Finance Board confirmed that Yang registered his campaign on Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, candidates include city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, Mayor de Blasio’s former legal adviser Maya Wiley, former HUD secretary Shaun Donovan, City Councilman Carlos Menchaca and former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, and several others.

Yang’s political consultant Chris Coffey described the move as not an “official” signal that he’s running, but merely a “procedural thing.”


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