Geoffrey Mays
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jan
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If you heard Bernie Sanders, if you heard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even Mamdani, they talked about how he believes his administration and this effort to uplift the values of democratic socialists, which is a strong focus on working people, taxing the wealthy, taxing corporations so that they pay what they believe is their fair share, is going to be a model that
could be used across the country, maybe even internationally.
And so the question is, if you could implement some of those policies here, those policies then likely can be replicated elsewhere.
So this is a huge moment for the city.
And Bernie Sanders got at that a bit during his speech.
And Mamdani did as well.
I think he has the potential to accomplish some of his goals.
Now, I don't know if he can get all of them done because it's a very complex situation.
It's going to test his political savvy, to be honest.
But for example, there are certain things that he needs help to do.
So universal child care is one of his proposals.
That is going to have to come probably from funding from the state.
And the governor, Kathy Hochul, has indicated that she is interested in working with him on developing some sort of universal child care to fund that.
They may have to do things like increase the corporate tax.
And that's something that many people believe that Governor Hochul might be open to.
Another of Mamdani's proposals is to make buses in New York City free, but also fast, which that might actually be the hardest part.
That, too, is going to require $800 million in funding to do things like speed up the buses and new lanes.
All those sort of things are going to take money that are going to have to come from the state.
I think Mamdani comes in with a tremendous amount of political capital.
The big question is going to be how does he wield that?
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