Cea #CancelRent

My thinking: do Morales, Garcia, Wiley, and maybe even a few others deserve to be taken seriously for the role? Absolutely. Is there one clearly positioned better at this point? M/G/W are currently B-tier in this race. The only optimism is that they're not far behind Adams

And this is just anecdotal for me, but I've dropped Stringer from my rankings. Like, if he DID those things (and it sure looks like it), how do you justify electing him?

In addition to the accusation of sexual misconduct, reading SO MANY anecdotes about him being a hardball dick in his decades in politics was more than enough to write him off. I get why the Biaggis and Bowmans of the world jumped on early, AOC was smart not to. Always a weird fit

I justified the "hardball" stuff because he is a creature of this system & we hadn't gotten to the point where anyone made a viable case to remake the system. It quietly became an advantage. It shouldn't have been. People are delusional if they think Tusk is going to be softer

Oh absolutely which is why if I had to choose between Yang or Adams I’d go with the parochial weirdo who could be checked by a strong council over Bradley Fucking Tusk’s cutout.

Yang isn't a "rubber stamp" for Tusk, and he's clearly to the left of Adams. Why wouldn't Yang be "checked" or work with city council?

It's not clear who Yang is accountable to or what he sees his base as. I don't know that the council has *that* much power to check the Mayor who is executing a vast amount of decisions on a day to day basis. But yes, who they elect speaker is going to be important.