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Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer — and has a message for today’s young socialists. freedlander reports

Wylde in her Bay Ridge apartment Photo: Jonas Fredwall Karlsson On the last Friday in September, two dozen protesters descended on the co-op 740 Park Avenue, laying crosses, small Stars of David, and Islamic crescents on the grassy median in front of the building, each one symbolizing another thousand of New York’s COVID dead.

Wylde’s affection for the 110 New York City CEOs, white-shoe lawyers, tech entrepreneurs, real-estate magnates, and other Masters of the Universe in the Partnership is obvious: She calls them either “my crowd” or, without a hint of irony, “captains of industry.” And they love Wylde right back.

Wylde’s perspective on the city’s economic crisis is not just that billionaires and the companies they lead are misguided protest targets. She believes they are our best ticket out of all this.

Wylde grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, as the daughter of an anesthesiologist and a nurse. Her mother was secretary of the state’s Republican Party and an officer of the Ripon Society, the Republican public-policy group. When Kathy was 6, she went door-to-door petitioning for local candidates. Her sister, Jayne Perkins, now a retired music teacher who lives north of Milwaukee, remembers Kathy as restless. By the time she got to St.

As Wylde saw it, though, she wasn’t doing anything all that revolutionary. She didn’t want to burn down the system; she just wanted to help people. Friends remember her as a tactician and a voice of moderation, never a showboat, and one of the few women to ascend to leadership in the movement.

Green, who went on to become a GOP congressman for the Upper East Side, let them stay all day, keeping the police at bay. If they wanted to protest, why not? They had been devastated by the very government agency he was now in charge of.

In the end, Zuccotti was unable to keep the meat market from moving, proof for Wylde that even the most seemingly powerful politicians were facing forces bigger than themselves. “This is the only town in America that doesn’t have an Establishment,” one executive was quoted as saying. “A lot of people think that they are important, but they can’t get anything done.”

There was a time, pre-Wylde, when the Partnership included nonprofit leaders; Wylde tightened up the membership requirements, so that it is now a collection of bank CEOs, venture capitalists, fashion entrepreneurs, media companies , and, as of a few months ago, Sarah Jessica Parker.

 

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freedlander She can keep her message to herself, thanks

freedlander Public/private partnership will only happen when corporations are “incentivized” to care. The age old component of greed is rather strong, as we all need to learn already. Observe political “leadership” if you want to understand the bigger issue of absolute power corrupting...

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freedlander What a sellout.

freedlander I can’t begin to explain how little I care about the opinion of a Rockefeller capitalist on the socialist movement. What a boring puff piece

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