Meet the Candidate: Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley, legal analyst and a university professor at the New School, talks about her just-officially-announced run for NYC mayor, plus local and national news.
Are you part of the #DefundThePolice movement, @BrianLehrer asks @mayawiley?
— Brigid Bergin (@brigidbergin) October 9, 2020
"I subscribe to the principles that so many demonstrators, me among them," Wiley says. "We must right size the police department," she adds.
She says their budget is bloated
"How many fewer police would you have?" @BrianLehrer asks @mayawiley, who won't give a number but says it's part of a "conversation"@emma_a_whitford wrote the primer on this last fall https://t.co/9nUl5gndSH
— Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) October 9, 2020
First caller to @BrianLehrer asks @mayawiley about affordable housing and notably - during a week when you'd be forgiven for thinking everyone in NYC hates @NYCMayor - applauds the current housing available for people making low wages.
— Sally Goldenberg (@SallyGold) October 9, 2020
