She's Running for Mayor - a podcast by WNYC

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?"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

— Brigid Bergin (@brigidbergin) October 9, 2020

"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

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