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Andrew Yang landed the endorsement of Rep. Grace Meng today, boosting his bid to be New York City’s first Asian American mayor at an auspicious time for the city’s Asian community.
“I will work my heart out to make sure that he is elected,” Meng, who represents Queens, said at an endorsement event in Flushing. Meng will be a co-chair of Yang’s mayoral campaign, joining Rep. Ritchie Torres and Martin Luther King III.
Meng is the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York and the highest-ranking Asian official in the city.
“I would be honored to follow in her footsteps as the first Asian American mayor in the history of our great city. I will be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and I think New Yorkers sense that,” Yang said. “But I will say that it will give me a special degree of pride to help make Asian Americans in our city feel like we are part of the fabric of this city,” he said, adding that the community has been treated as a
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For a man potentially on the verge of achieving New York City’s highest elected office, Andrew Yang’s views on voting are hard to pin down.
He was asked Thursday night during a forum hosted by the New York Immigration Coalition if he supported a Council bill that would allow certain non-citizens to vote in city elections. Rivals Eric Adams, Maya Wiley and Shaun Donovan are among those who support the measure.
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Ray McGuire attacked Andrew Yang’s business acumen today during a “Women for Ray” virtual event that featured more than 90 women in the workforce, including billionaire philanthropist Laurie Tisch.
“You ve got to look at the track record. They asked me this morning on a Partnership for New York [meeting], what the difference is between me and Andrew Yang. And I said, ‘Well the difference is simple. I ve actually done something,’” McGuire said.
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Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign has focused on tamping down crime. But the former NYPD captain won what might seem like a counterintuitive endorsement today: one of the city’s best-known survivors of police brutality.