Inside a Billionaireâs Plan to Influence New Yorkâs Mayoral Race
Stephen Ross, the head of the Related Companies, is organizing a meeting of business leaders to âhelp us get this mayoral election right.â
Stephen Ross said he hopes to boost voter turnout among âmoderate thinking, pro-growth, and pro-jobs Democrats who typically do not vote in primaries.âCredit.Peter Foley/EPA, via Shutterstock
Published March 9, 2021Updated March 24, 2021
The billionaire developer Stephen M. Ross is rallying fellow business leaders to commit tens of millions of dollars in an effort to push moderate Democrats to vote in the June mayoral primary in New York and âchange the future course of the city.â
white voters, a lot of frrk voters. that s goings to carry the day for a long time early on. if you look at elizabeth warren, she s building support and gaining newer support whereas the other two have sort of a historic base to draw on. bernie sanders, i m guessing, again this is just prognostication, is going to be who he s always been. i don t think he s a candidate who is going to come out with any gimmick, not going to try to confront joe biden on something he might have said 20 years ago. you pretty much know what you re going to get with bernie sanders. that s one of the reasons he ll be at the top of the polls and probably be. mark leibovich, professor greer, thank you as well. you also worked with him to oppose busing. there was a little girl in california, she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me.