“My 16-year-old son: He needs a future. Please. Please.” Those are the words that have been ringing in my ears since I heard them last week. They are the reason I am running for mayor, though I don’t know the name of the woman who spoke them to me and may never meet her son.
This has been a hard-fought campaign played out at a time of great turmoil in our city and our lives. But it is also a moment when New Yorkers are coming together and the city is alive with possibility.
And when New Yorkers come together, hold and care for each other, even when we are strangers, there’s nothing we can’t do.
My campaign has proposed bold, progressive ideas that will transform our city and ensure New York City doesn’t just recover, but rises.
My campaign has proposed bold, progressive ideas that will transform our city and ensure New York City doesn’t just recover, but rises.
Our city’s safety focus will fix root causes of crime, and our police will work smarter to solve crime when it happens. Our communities know what keeps each other safe, and our communities can also hold us accountable for injustice.
We must hold our police officers to the highest standards of the rule of law and entrust final disciplinary decisions to independent civilian oversight. If we are going to give everyone in this city a chance, we must protect our people and hold ourselves accountable too.
Today, New Yorkers face a tough choice. They’ve heard from candidates who want to return to old ideas that never worked, like stop-and-frisk. They’ve heard from candidates who want to bring us back to the status quo we had before COVID, only tinkering around the edges.
I don’t think this is a moment for tinkering. I think it’s a moment for fixing what’s broken and what’s been broken for a long time. What’s broken for that 16-year-old boy and his immigrant mother who worries that this city won’t give him a chance.
People are coming together in this election because they recognize the city we want is within our grasp. New Yorkers are finding the courage to elect leaders who govern with our values. They’re realizing a better New York is possible. It just takes the courage to reach for it.
My name is Maya Wiley, daughter of George and Wretha, loving partner and mom of two great kids, civil rights lawyer, and lifelong champion for justice -- polls are open and I'm asking for your #1 vote today.
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