Wiley has found herself in the position of being the last, best hope for the city’s left. Photo: Hilary Swift/The New York Times/REDUX Maya Wiley stood under the arch of Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Saturday evening as a light drizzle fell on her and over a dozen members of the group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, who were there to light a candle to celebrate the end of the Sabbath. Around her were several people in Wiley campaign gear, including her family’s rabbi.
Now Wiley is trying to pick up their rubble and cobble together a coalition that combines support from both white progressives as well as Black and Latino voters. If she can do it, her path to victory in the Democratic mayoral primary would be the same one that propelled her old boss Bill de Blasio to victory against a splintered Democratic field in 2013. Progressives had always liked Wiley, but they were lukewarm on voting for her.
“Maya Wiley is the only candidate in this race who had the opportunity to become the movement candidate,” Jeffries told reporters on Sunday during a campaign stop in Brooklyn. He touted her ability “to appeal to significantly African American and Latino communities that have often been left behind,” as well as “progressive communities all across the city of New York.” He resisted any comparison to de Blasio, however, describing this group of voters as “the Obama coalition.
Wiley’s main message has been casting herself as a progressive outsider. A former top aide to de Blasio who has carefully tried to separate herself from her former boss, she also served as chairwoman of the Civilian Complaint Review Board with some oversight of the NYPD, and she has emphasized that role, as well as her past as a civil-rights attorney, as her qualifications to reform the police and advance racial justice in the city.
Bencjacobs mayawiley is GREAT... she can help AndrewYang and KGforNYC run a renewD Great City... then YangGarcia2028? why NOT! benyt
Bencjacobs shes not gonna win lol RankYangBlockAdams
Bencjacobs Maya Wiley = Chirlane McCray
Bencjacobs Yang voted for Bernie & Nixon. Wiley supported Hillary & Cuomo. 🤔 He has been running on a platform of eliminating poverty for 2 years.
EgSophie Bencjacobs She will ride on the progressive vote and then become a race baiter like Lori Lightfoot she was already bitching about Bernie for a while
Bencjacobs SarahClapp big day tomorrow. Who ya got?
Bencjacobs Yang is more progressive
Bencjacobs Eric Adams is definitely not center-left lol.
Bencjacobs Have the NYC political journalists’ ticket been punched for Sag, the Hamptons or the Vineyard this summer? They adore limousine liberal and georgesoros - funded mayawiley vs ex-cop blue collar ericadamsfornyc of Coney, Far Rockaway and Orchard Beach. SCHOOL DAZE it is.
Bencjacobs Idk about those other two but Yang is absolutely not left anything
Bencjacobs She’s not tough enough on the crime we are seeing in our city right now. I love her but I can’t.
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