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Yang, 46, the entrepreneur and former U.S. presidential candidate, reported 15,600 donors and is eligible for 8-to-1 matching funds on more than $570,000 small-dollar contributions from city residents, the memo said. Candidates who participate in the city’s public campaign-finance program are eligible to receive as much as $2,000 in public funds per contributor.
The numbers “quantify how New Yorkers are drawn to the hope that Andrew promises following a year of isolation and loss,” the memo from Yang’s campaign said. “It’s not just his name ID. It’s about him. People like Andrew and they are rooting for him like he’s rooting for New York.”
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A new interactive map by the NYC Campaign Finance Board sheds light on which candidates each neighborhood is supporting. (NYC Campaign Finance Board)
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS More than 40 people have launched campaigns to be the next mayor of New York City, and a new interactive map shows which candidates have Forest Hills residents already pulling out their wallets.
As of January, 198 people living in the Forest Hills ZIP code 11375 have donated to a mayoral campaign, according to the donor map compiled by the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
Forest Hills donors have so far put more than $36,000 into the mayoral race, with an average donation of $184, the Campaign Finance Board map shows.
Democratic activist and business owner Lorie Honor enters Staten Island borough president race
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Local activist Lorie Honor, a Democrat, poses for a photo as part of her campaign for Staten Island borough president. (Courtesy: Lorie Honor for BP/Nataki Hewling)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A Staten Island Democratic activist and small business owner has entered the race for borough president.
Lorie Honor, co-founder of Staten Island Women Who March and owner of Honor Wines in Stapleton, said she considers the position a “dream job” that she’s been considering for over a decade.
“I just felt like that this was the job that would always be a great fit for someone who really wants to do good things for the people of Staten Island,” she said.
CRE Gets Its Ducks And Dollars In A Row For Crucial Mayoral Run There are more than 30 people currently running for mayor.
“This is a critical moment for real leadership,” said RXR CEO Scott Rechler, who is also chairman of the Regional Plan Association. “There s no superman out there, but we want someone that s capable, someone that s well-intentioned, someone that is not tied down by ideology and someone that reaches out to the broader New York community to come together to rebuild the city.”
More than 30 people have thrown their hat in the ring, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and city Comptroller Scott Stringer, both of whom lead in fundraising, with $7.3M and $6.5M, respectively, per the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Ray Maguire, who is leaving his job as vice chairman at Citigroup to enter the race, now has $4.8M of private funds in his coffers.
The other candidates who have said they will accept real estate money military veteran Zach Iscol, former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and former Veterans’ Services Commissioner Loree Sutton have received about $22,000, $16,000 and $6,000, respectively, from people in the industry, according to finance board data. Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who only recently made his mayoral campaign official, had just 10 donors listed in the finance board’s database as of Jan. 20, none of whom appeared to have ties to the real estate industry.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer pledged in early 2019 that he would not accept contributions from developers for his mayoral campaign. But he did not extend the pledge to a ban on contributions from everyone who works in real estate, and he will not be returning developer donations that he received before making the pledge, he said. His campaign has so far received about $114,000 from real estate professionals.