Democratic political strategist Bruce Gyory’s take: We’re actually on pace for relatively high turnout. Of course, this is a municipal primary and low turnout is expected compared to a high-profile general election – even if most of the races then weren’t competitive. But the 64,288 early voters over four days paled in comparison to the 93,830 New Yorkers who cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in the presidential election last year. Another 15,165 came on Sunday, 11,688 on Monday and a whopping 20,568 on Tuesday. An underwhelming 16,867 New Yorkers turned out to vote on the first day of early voting Saturday across the five boroughs. No lines and quiet poll sites had the political class talking this week, with early voting seeming to get off to a slow start. A new poll from a progressive think tank supporting Bragg said that he and Farhadian Weinstein are tied for first place in the race.Įarly voting: Maybe not as slow as you think
What’s she spending on? About $1.5 million to Red Horse Strategies and more than $3 million to the Hamilton Campaign Network in the past few weeks alone, some of which seems to be going toward mailers and TV ads calling opponents Alvin Bragg and Dan Quart soft on domestic violence. So Farhadian Weinstein, running in one borough, is poised to spend more than any single mayoral candidate, running in five (Yes, even Ray McGuire). Farhadian Weinstein was most recently general counsel to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, but she is married to hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, who very well may have ascended from multimillionaire to billionaire in the past year. But $8.2 million of that came from Farhadian Weinstein herself, all in the last three weeks. The amount Tali Farhadian Weinstein has raised for her Manhattan district attorney campaign – more than the other seven Democratic candidates combined. The crowd erupted, and Casablancas closed: “Give it up for the future mayor of New York, the self-proclaimed bad bitch, Maya Wiley!” By the Numbers “He also texts me, at my urging: ‘bad bitch.’” “Every night before I have to debate, this one right here texts me that he loves me,” she said, before letting the crowd in on a secret. So is Maya Wiley cool? Near the end of the night – which a spokesperson said netted $80,000 for the campaign – Wiley gestured to Casablancas across the stage.
Maybe the loudest cheers of the night came not for The Strokes, but when she said she’d have “the courage to confront” the NYPD. And Wiley knew to hit the anti-establishment notes. Being the first woman, and second Black mayor of New York City, would be cool. Though his identity was, and Wiley has that going for her too. Barack Obama was the cool candidate without his politics being radical. It’s hard to seperate “cool” from anti-establishment, leftist politics, but it’s possible. And Johnny Russell, 21, clad in a leather jacket over a vintage Chicago Bulls jersey, who drove in from Boston to see The Strokes, was into Wiley’s platform: “I was looking into it, seeing everything she goes for. “If she got The Strokes to endorse her, then I say that makes her pretty cool,” said Mars Ballantyne, 25, standing outside the concert. “I mean, AOC gave her seal of approval, right?” said Elizabeth Bennett, 30, who was waiting in line outside the concert in a Strokes baseball jersey and a Supreme-branded fanny pack. Wiley didn’t start out cool ( cable news #resistance punditry is for boomers), but she’s become it, thanks in part to some late endorsements. Ray McGuire had a shot – his son’s an NBA player and Jay-Z and Nas endorsed him – but the rappers have been MIA and they could only help a Wall Street banker so much anyway. Dianne Morales was obviously it, with her radical-ish politics and her young, and/or queer and/or diverse army. Scott Stringer was on a path toward some Bernie Sanders/Ed Markey/Mike Gravel realness, then fell off.
Green New Deal jobs … there’s a long ass list, she’ll do all of it.” “This is the dawning of the age,” Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas said, introducing Wiley onstage before closing their set with “Reptilia.” “It starts with people like Maya because she will do shit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (yes, she’s on that level) was pretty good evidence that Maya Wiley is now the coolest choice for mayor of New York City among a certain young “I vape, and I vote” set. Saturday night’s electric 1,200 bodies jostling rock concert with The Strokes, comedian John Mulaney and Rep.