So it looks like Andrew Yang is going to be the next mayor of Gotham

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Seems okay.

[edhopper]

1. Not so sure

with rank choice voting now. And June is still far away.
Stringer got a #metoo story and it killed his campaign.
A lot can happen between now and then.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. I like Andrew Yang. Would be cool to see what he can do there.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

3. That would be fricking fantastic! Go Yang!

[msongs]

4. another celebirty with no relevant work experience. good luck to NYC is this happens nt

[Tommy Carcetti]

5. Honestly the NYC Mayor's position is one of the most overblown when it comes to national importance.

Yes, it's the largest city in the nation but we keep on being told that NYC Mayors are potential presidents on that basis alone, and every time--from Bill DeBlasio to Michael Bloomberg to Rudy Fucking Giuliani--they always seem to crash and burn.

It's one of those annoyingly NYC-centric things, along with pizza and bagels.

But hey, they do have to have a mayor, and if Andrew Yang is it, that's cool, I suppose.

[brooklynite]

13. "National Importance" isn't the issues...Management competence is.

You're the Mayor of 8 million people from a rainbow of economic backgrounds, ethnicities and religions. You have a massive bureaucracy to run. You have issues of crime, housing, health care and economics to deal with. It's not a "learning on the job" position.

[dsc]

6. I think the instant run off might be a problem for him

He seems like a love him or not love him kind of candidate. I suspect he isn't a ton of people's 2nd choice. There are many candidate who are running in similar lanes that are more likely to be the 2nd choices of other candidates in the same lane.

[WarGamer]

7. I like "modern progressives" with links to Big Tech...

[Kingofalldems]

9. Big Tech you say?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Bleh.

[DFW]

10. I'm not sure if it will make a huge difference in the larger scheme of things

As has been mentioned, the job has not proved to be a ticket to bigger things. We just spent 3 weeks there, the longest we've ever been in the city as a couple (and we've been a couple for 47 years), and we're never there in the spring. The city just seems to proceed at its own pace.

One of my grandfathers served for a time as deputy mayor, way back in the last Ice Age (so it seemed at the time, anyway). Pretty impressive for a kid born in South Carolina who worked his way through college as a janitor. He seemed so old and wise to me (whereas I merely got old). His boss, Robert Wagner, never went any higher than that, and my grandfather went on to serve on the NY State Supreme Court until his very early death at age 68, which is younger than I am now. His wife, my grandmother, once served another NYC mayor (Fiorello LaGuardia) as Labor Liason. LaGuardia, a Republican, ended up firing her for being too friendly with Labor, and not friendly enough with him (what did he expect from an FDR Democrat, anyway?).

[PunkinPi]

11. Um...no. NYC deserves so much better.

Link to tweet

[JI7]

14. Don't they deserve what they themselves support ?

[PunkinPi]

15. Of course, however imho...

Yang is a bad candidate for many reasons and I think NYC voters have better options than him.

[brooklynite]

12. How does it look like that?

[Earth-shine]

16. Gotham? I, for one, would love a new Batman movie with Andrew Yang.

It worked for Patrick Leahy.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/23/us/senator-patrick-leahy-batman-trnd/index.html