Andrew Yang running for Mayor of New York City?

[lpetrich]

Mayoral election in New York, New York (2021) - Ballotpedia
A Full Guide to Voting in NYC's Mayoral Primary - The New York Times

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’m voting @MayaWiley for Mayor because we deserve a New York City that works for everyone. I hope you join me (vid link)" / Twitter
Linking to a video of AOC promoting MW, and AOC and MW getting all huggy.

Maya Wiley on Twitter: "Stop and frisk
1. is unconstitutional
2. is racist
3. didn't even work!
4. is never coming back in a Maya Wiley administration. #NYCMayoralDebate (link)" / Twitter

Maya Wiley on Twitter: "Honored to have @AOC on our team as we work to build a more just, more equitable, & more affordable New York City, where everyone has a fair shot to succeed. Make your plan to vote.

Vote Early: (link)
Vote on Election Day: (links)" / Twitter
(with some video of AOC praising her)

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram: “Good morning! It’s an NYC election & first ranked-choice in our history! 🗳 Here’s a quick guide we made for the city-wide and council races you’ll see on your ballot.…”

She endorsed:

• Mayor: Maya Wiley
• Comptroller: Brad Lander
• Public Advocate: Jumaane Williams

Also 60 candidates in 31 districts (my counts).

Courage to Change Pledge Candidates: NYC Council - Courage to Change by AOC
Here is her pledge for candidates to earn her endorsement:

• Building movements: Supporting policy priorities like the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and Abolish ICE, and organizing with local movement groups to build community power.
• Ethical fundraising: Rejecting contributions from real estate executives, fossil fuel executives, law enforcement associations, and corporate PACs.
• Prioritizing workers: Uplifting New Yorkers with strong labor protections, reliable assistance programs for people often left out of the federal relief packages, and expanded small business opportunities and access to vendor licenses.
• Investing in infrastructure: Fighting for infrastructure investments in: Public transit, such as elevator access to every subway station, bus shelters to every bus stop, and a connected city-wide bike lane system; NYCHA, including quality broadband internet services for every NYCHA resident and mobilizing labor to bring all NYCHA work order tickets up to date; and Public schools, to remove lead and mold from pipes and to install state of the art heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems.
• Championing environmental justice: Upholding the goals of the Green New Deal and protecting working-class communities who are already feeling the impacts of climate change in our city.
• Reimagining public safety: Building safe and healthy communities by reducing the annual NYPD budget and shifting those funds towards community-based support systems, including: community accountability services; violence intervention and prevention; victim services and compensation funds; community schools; and individualized mental, health job support, and re-entry programs.
• Protecting the right to safe, decent, and stable housing: Opposing attempts to sell public housing property to private real estate developers, improving and expanding eviction protections, and encouraging the conversion of underutilized property into permanent housing.

 

[lpetrich]

 2021 New York City mayoral election
Mayoral election in New York, New York (2021) - Ballotpedia

For mayor, the #1 preference votes so far (pct): Eric Adams 31.7, Maya Wiley 22.3, Kathryn Garcia 19.5, Andrew Yang 11.7, Scott Stringer 5.0, Dianne Morales 2.8, Raymond McGuire 2.3, Shaun Donovan 2.2, Aaron Foldenauer 0.8, Art Chang 0.7, Paperboy Prince 0.4, Joycelyn Taylor 0.3, Isaac Wright 0.2

Wikipedia's eight featured candidates are the top eight candidates in this vote.

Though the count will not be complete for a few weeks, Andrew Yang has conceded.

Of the two Republican candidates, Curtis Sliwa won. In 1977, he founded the Guardian Angels vigilante group.

For City Comptroller, the count is so far (AOC endorsed) Brad Lander 31.4%, Corey Johnson 22.6%, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera 13.6%.

MCC had challenged AOC for NY-14 last year. But Sandy decisively beat Shelly.

For public defender, (AOC endorsed) Jumaane Williams is at 71.0% and the other two candidates at 21.2%, 7.8%.

For city council, AOC endorsed candidates in 31 districts. 3-, 5-, 6, 7-, 9-, 10-*, 11-, 13*, 14-*, 18-*, 20-, 21-, 22-*, 23-, 24, 25-*, 26-*, 29-, 30, 32-*, 33-*, 34, 35-*, 36-*, 37-*, 38-*, 39-*, 40-*, 42, 45, 49.

- means unsettled, * means AOC-endorsed candidate is ahead

Michael Gold, in New York 12:47 AM ET

The Democratic Socialists of America backed six City Council candidates. None of their races are called, but two of them are currently leading as votes come in.

 

[Swammerdami]

I was surprised to read that it may take weeks for the Mayor to be decided, because ballots are recounted after each elimination! Haven't those people heard of computer programming?

I suppose there are complicating special cases. For example, a ballot with one mark in the 1st-choice column, but two marks in the 2nd-choice column might require manual examination, but ONLY after the 1st-choice guy had been eliminated. Even so, there are hardware, software and/or procedural workarounds for such complications.

Though the count will not be complete for a few weeks, Andrew Yang has conceded....

Does that mean he will be eliminated for the next round of ballot counting? Presumably NOT: Such an elimination could affect the race! (Yang voters' 2nd choices could put A over 50%, with B winning instead with the standard elimination order.)

 

[Derec]

There is a good chance NYC will escape the bad choice that would have been Mya Wiley, although nothing is certain yet.

Buffalo wasn't that lucky. An openly socialist candidate won the Democratic nomination (and almost certainly will win the general) there, which means hard times ahead for Buffalo. If I lived there I'd be looking to move out right now.

Too bad that Jumanji Williams got reelected. He is a disgrace. I hope as many AOC puppets as possible lose their city council elections.

 

[lpetrich]

Eric Adams Promises to ‘Show America How to Run a City’ - The New York Times - "Mr. Adams, who is leading in the mayoral primary, laid out a middle road between progressive and conservative approaches to policing."

He's currently ahead, but without a majority.

 

[lpetrich]

How Andrew Yang Went From Front-Runner to Fourth Place - The New York Times

For months, Andrew Yang seemed like he was exactly what New York City was looking for in a mayor.

He was relentlessly positive at a time when the city, still locked down during the pandemic, was somber. While other candidates were stuck in a loop of online mayoral forums, he seized attention by holding in-person events, capitalizing on his star power as a 2020 presidential candidate.

He leapt to the top of polls, drawing the affection of wealthy donors and envy from the race’s more established candidates. But as the race’s sudden front-runner, Mr. Yang began to draw more scrutiny from the news media and his rivals, and bit by bit, he lost ground.

...
His collapse was a result of an accumulation of factors: self-inflicted wounds, a perception that he was out of his depth, and the city’s changing environment.

...
In interviews with campaign staff members and surrogates, supporters and opponents, the diagnoses of Mr. Yang’s electoral maladies span the spectrum: He fumbled once it became clear that celebrity alone could not carry the day; he did not try hard enough to reach Black and Latino voters. His campaign was too media-driven, yet he never fully relinquished his Twitter account to more responsible hands. He failed to master the city’s intricacies and did not turn on-the-ground energy into votes.

The article then went into detail about AY's numerous missteps during his campaign.

 

[lpetrich]

The Agency Running Ranked-Choice Voting Is in Turmoil. Again. - The New York Times

Officials explained that the board had mistakenly included more than 130,000 test ballots in the preliminary count. A new ranked-choice tally was run on Wednesday, and the top-line results were unchanged: Eric Adams, who had the most first-place votes on primary night, was still the first choice, but by a far narrower numerical margin over his closest rival, Kathryn Garcia.

...
“It’s just one fiasco after another, year after year,” said Lulu Friesdat, executive director of Smart Elections, an elections reform group. “The fact that we haven’t made the effort to change that is shocking. It’s appalling.”

Inside Decades of Nepotism and Bungling at the N.Y.C. Elections Board - The New York Times

Some staffers read or watch Netflix at the office, while others punch in and then go shopping or to the gym, current and former employees said.

The official who oversees voter registration in New York City is the 80-year-old mother of a former congressman. The director of Election Day operations is a close friend of Manhattan’s Republican chairwoman. The head of ballot management is the son of a former Brooklyn Democratic district leader. And the administrative manager is the wife of a City Council member.

As the workings of American democracy have become more complex — with sophisticated technology, early voting and the threat of foreign interference — New York has clung to a century-old system of local election administration that is one of the last vestiges of pure patronage in government, a relic from the era of powerful political clubhouses and Tammany Hall.

I'm concerned about what kind of reputation IRV will have after this election. It's been successful in other places, so NYC's troubles might slow it down.

 

[lpetrich]

New York Mayoral Primary Election: Live Vote Results - The New York Times
notes
2021 Primary citywide contests

DEM Mayor Citywide

1. 
   Who dropped out when and their last percentage:
2. (initial)
3. (write-ins) 0.2%
4. Isaac Wright Jr. 0.2%
5. Joycelyn Taylor 0.3%, Paperboy Love Prince 0.4%
6. Art Chang 0.8%, Aaron S. Foldenauer 0.9%
7. Shaun Donovan 2.3%
8. Raymond J. McGuire 2.6%, Raymond J. McGuire 2.6%, Dianne Morales 3.3%, Scott M. Stringer 5.5%
9. Andrew Yang 13.9%
10. Maya D. Wiley 29.5%
11. Kathryn A. Garcia 48.9%
12. Eric L. Adams 51.1%

The absentee ballots have yet to be counted, and they may tilt the race toward KG.

Here is how much each candidate has benefited as the others have dropped out. I'll be doing full results when the final count comes out.

• RMG, DM, SS -- EA 2.8%, MW 3.6%, KG 3.6%, AY 1.5%
• AY -- EA 5.4%, MW 2.7%, KG 5.8%
• MW -- EA 10.2%, KG 19.3%

So one can see who Andrew Yang's and Maya Wiley's voters also liked.

 

[lpetrich]

DEM Public Advocate Citywide
Jumaane D. Williams decisively won with 70.0% of the vote. The others got 21.1%, 7.9%, and write-ins 1.0%.

DEM Comptroller Citywide
There were 10 candidates along with write-ins.

Former AOC challenger Michelle Caruso-Cabrera placed third, maintaining her position during he count. She had 22.2% before dropping out.

Of the two front runners, Brad Lander went from 42.0% to 51.9% and Corey D. Johnson from 35.7% to 48.1%

MCC -- BL 9.9% CJ 12.4%

No updates for the city-council counts, however.

 

[lpetrich]

POLITICO on Twitter: "Andrew Yang no longer identifies as a Democrat and is planning to launch a third party next month, sources tell us (link)" / Twitter

Andrew Yang to launch a third party - POLITICO - "The presidential candidate turned New York City mayoral hopeful is no longer identifying as a Democrat."

He will be launching a new political party next month, along with his new book, "Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy." (release date: Oct 5)

But the book’s publisher, Crown, did give some clues about the type of platform Yang may pursue. It writes that the book is an indictment of America’s “era of institutional failure” and will introduce “us to the various ‘priests of the decline’ of America, including politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.”

The book is blurbed by businessperson Mark Cuban (“a vitally important book”) and The New York Times’ Kara Swisher (“Can there be another political party in the U.S.?...In Forward, Yang does not just give us a laundry list of intractable problems, but shows how we can find solutions if we think in new ways and summon the courage to do so.”).

He placed fourth by dropout order in the recent NYC Dem mayoral primary.

He ran predominantly on the idea of a universal basic income, which would see the government give citizens a monthly $1,000 check. It was a quirky policy proposal that did not fit neatly into the ideological prism of either party and won Yang converts among many apolitical figures online and in the media — some of whom dubbed themselves the “Yang Gang.”

All I can say is not another one. It's much better running as a Democrat or a Republican, even if it means also fighting the party leadership. Organize a faction within the party. That has been a very successful strategy for the Tea Partiers and Trumpies in the Republican Party, and progressives are now trying it in the Democratic Party.

 

[lpetrich]

Election Results Summary | NYC Board of Elections

For the mayoral race: dropouts, vote transfers

• Write-ins - xfrd to Eric Adams, Andrew Yang, Kathryn Garcia
• Isaac Wright - xfrd to EA, Maya Wiley, AY
• Aaron Foldenauer, Art Chang, Paperboy Prince, Joycelyn Taylor - xfrd to MW, AY, KG
• Shaun Donovan - xfrd to KG, EA, AY
• Scott Stringer, Dianne Morales, Raymond McGuire - xfrd to AY, MW, EA
• Andrew Yang - xfrd to KG, EA, MW
• Maya Wiley - xfrd to KG, EA