Effort to Elect More Women to City Council May Yield Majority mnn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mnn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
10 things to know about the latest filing
This week marked the massive information dump the New York City Campaign Finance Board calls “the filing deadline.” There are enough tidbits and storylines to last us politicos two months until the next one on May 21, but here are 10 things that immediately stood out.
Adams has the money
With $7.6 million on hand, Eric Adams is the undisputed money king of the mayoral race. Scott Stringer is in a not-so-distant second with $6.85 million. Andrew Yang raised an impressive $2.14 million in just two months, but he won’t be eligible to receive his $4.73 million in expected public matching funds until April 15 at the earliest.
arrow Meisha Porter Department of Education handout
Meisha Porter’s rise as the next New York City Schools Chancellor is being praised by advocates and lawmakers who see the veteran educator, herself a product of local schools with 20 years of experience at the Department of Education, as an on-the-ground leader ready to reopen the nation’s largest school system still reeling from the pandemic.
With just 10 months before the start of a new mayoral administration, Porter inherits a system in which the pandemic inflamed educational inequities, highlighted by remote learningdifficulties ranging from lack of technological equipment to connectivity issues to disengagement. She’ll have to grapple with school desegregation issues that have dogged Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza for years, in a sprawling 960,000-student system whose enrollment is 41% Latino, 26% Black, 16% Asian and 15% white.
Salud! Bronx City Council candidate celebrates the holidays, campaign with coquito for sale
Here’s a spirited take on campaign fundraising.
A City Council candidate in the Bronx is offering bottles of the traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink coquito to raise cash.
“I grew up drinking coquito,” Michael Beltzer told the Daily News on Thursday, adding that he had wanted to do an in-person fundraiser where the drink would be served, but nixed the plans due to the pandemic.
“We can’t do it in person,” he said. “I figured, hey, why not just get people the coquito. They can make a contribution.”
NYC Council candidate Michael Beltzer sells coquito as fundraiser nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.