happen. so, karen, speaking of his legacy, this stood out as well in the piece. in talking about his legacy, he reads his own press and he sees his sources close to him are being weaponized by the conspirators painting a portrait of a man unglued and people have been told to be careful with his legacy and my attitude he said about my legacy is f it. we could figure out what the asterisks mean there. but there is a serious question about what did happen to america s mayor, the man so many people outside of new york got to know in the wake of 9/11 and how does that square with the rudy giuliani we all see today? so can i just say, i actually worked for the new york city board of education under the tenure of rudy giuliani as mayor. he is a shifty guy. he is nasty. he does not play by the rules. the stuff that i saw him doing was very corrupt, very inappropriate. and so and i ll tell you as a former new yorker, part of this
and other issues, this isn t the leadership that new york city needs. you were the comptroller for years. does that make you the most qualified? it s all about finance. look at detroit. there are people in new york concerned about the finance. every big city in america is really fragile. it isn t just being the former controller of the city of new york, but the former head, the president of the new york city board of education. it s understanding education, it s understanding finance. it s having a background that s brought people together and helped to create consensus. that s leadership. we ve seen big cities under democratic mayors in this country pick and choose neighborhoods based on resources. what s your philosophy of public education? can you guarantee to the residents of new york city that every neighborhood will count? that s my geel, is to make sure that we have quality schools never neighborhood. it s not a pipe dream. it can be done. we have to do it together. i ca
across the united states to ensure that we re providing those summer meals when kids are most at risk of hunger. when i worked for the new york city board of education. one of the factors, the chancellor that i would consider on a snow day was, well, if we close the school down because of the snow, that means some kids won t actually eat today and that s not the way you should decide about children s safety. you know, daniella, also proposals that would have required drug testing for welfare recipients and similar proposals we re seeing at the state level. the thing about that, it feels like it s stigmatizing people that need help but equating and literally being in need of help with an assumption that you re a criminal. that s not americans. that s not the american way. right. exactly. something just fundamentally wrong about asking a family who needs help putting food on the table, again, to take a drug test. so, if someone is struggling with drug abuse or drug addiction, you re
reaction f reaction from those. i think a lot of people don t realize that i ve actually been in politics a long time. i started actually in 1992 at the convention right here in new york. i worked for bill clinton and the clinton campaign and the clinton white house, saw a lot, learned a lot, and that experience. worked at the new york city board of education as communications director. i ve had to deal with communications and message and strategy and both in the private sector and the public sector, in addition to straight politics. so i hope that helps me be able to frame an argument and, you know, kind of make my case. well, you made your case pretty well, because when the former white house press secretary robert gibbs was leaving, your name was out there as among those who were being considered. yeah. how does one prepare for that job? it s so interesting you ask that. that was the question i asked, as i was trying to think about my mom kept saying, it would be like th
happened and invited to go to ground zero with the president today and also karen finney, the communications director for the new york city board of education on september 11th. she spent that day making sure all 1.1 million school children had somewhere and someone to go home to. governor, there have been mixed reactions of families and first responders, some saying it could be seen as gaining points according to some reports and others saying it offers comfort and respect from the president. sounds like a difficult balancing act for the president. well, it s always a difficult balancing act but the president to his credit made the right call in going after bin laden. and i think it s perfectly appropriate for him now that this butcher has been killed to visit the scene of the crime and to lay a wreath and pay his respects. karen, react, also, to that question, as well as that, the president will be laying a wreath today and not giving a