Andrew Yang in Queens. Photo: Mark Peterson From the moment Andrew Yang sat down in the back corner of a dark restaurant in the Bronx — brow knitted, wearing an overcoat and scarf that would stay on for the whole lunch — he was not the same cheerful New York City mayoral candidate of our popular conception, the one who cheeses for photos and tweets things like “It’s Friday!” when it’s Friday or shouts “Yankee Stadium!” while standing in front of Yankee Stadium.
He also appeared eager to reflect the value systems of those places of power: Yang, who calls himself the anti-poverty candidate based largely on his proposal for annual $2,000 direct payments to the poorest New Yorkers, said he envisioned himself spending his first six months in office luring back the city’s elite by calling the many Masters of the Universe who have recently decamped to Florida.
Photo: Mark Peterson Yang’s mayoral candidacy started as a game of telephone. Although played out on Twitter and in the press, the dynamics were both personal and particular to a small group of former Bloomberg staffers. At 8:45 p.m. on February 11, 2020, Howard Wolfson, then a senior adviser on Bloomberg’s ill-fated presidential campaign, tweeted out a Politico piece about Yang dropping out of the Democratic primary: “@AndrewYang would make a very interesting candidate for NYC Mayor in 21.
As the Wolfson tweet suggests, Yang quickly distinguished himself among the candidates as a bright, interesting young thing. He was never going to win, but, unlike Tulsi Gabbard, he seemed to know that: Yang was out to raise his profile and spread the good word about his ideas. Those ideas were easily digestible and not particularly new, but he managed to redirect the conversation toward them more than many Democratic insiders had expected.
Many core members of Yang’s mayoral-campaign team work for Tusk Strategies, a political consultancy founded by Bradley Tusk, a man The Village Voice once called “the Manchurian consultant.” Coffey says he and Tusk were connected to Graumann in the early spring of 2020 by Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s then–campaign manager.
Backing an inexperienced candidate to push an agenda that would require bringing together a diverse electoral coalition and navigating the prickly outposts of political power may seem odd, but it has its advantages. Yang has no governmental record, so no past votes or policy fights can be used against him.
ClareMalone My first choice is Eric Adam's followed by Maya Wiley. Yang was my 3rd choice but I decided on Kathryn Garcia for that slot and Yang is now number 4 in my rank choice voting.
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ClareMalone nope. 👎🏽
ClareMalone WHEN YOUR A WINNER, THERE GOING TO BE JEALOUSLY. BUT MAYOR YANG DON'T MIND; HE CAN HANDLE IT.
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ClareMalone he needs to lose
ClareMalone I noticed the New York media is going hard after this guy. It’s interesting to watch from a far. Is he that bad?
ClareMalone Nobody.
ClareMalone No one actually from NYC
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ClareMalone I don’t think he’s a front runner.
ClareMalone No
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