Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Maya Wiley’s bid to become the next mayor of New York City. The New York Democrat’s nod could give a boost to Wiley, a former lawyer for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has lagged behind Democratic frontrunners Eric Adams, Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia. “We have an option of a candidate who can center people, racial justice, economic justice and climate justice,” Ocasio-Cortez said during her announcement in New York City. “[Wiley] didn’t just come up to run for mayor but has experience and has a lifetime of dedication to this.” Wiley herself is expected to get a $1 million boost from an outside PAC funded in part by George Soros. Adams, a former NYPD captain and the current Brooklyn borough president, has been running on a platform of curbing the city’s recent crime surge and wasted no time in criticizing the endorsement. “Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Maya Wiley want to slash the police department budget and shrink the police force at a time when Black and brown babies are being shot in our streets, hate crimes are terrorizing Asian and Jewish communities, and innocent New Yorkers are being stabbed and shot on their way to work,” he said in a statement. “They are putting slogans and politics in front of public safety and would endanger the lives of New Yorkers.” Wiley responded to the statement with one of her own, citing some supposed endorsements of his own. “It’s easy to see why Tucker Carlson, Rudy Giuliani, Fox News and the PBA all keep praising Eric Adams: because he’s using their talking points,” Wiley said. “We must reject the false choice between reform and over-policing. I know we can keep New Yorkers safe without resorting to the same policing tactics that have terrorized black and brown communities.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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