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Scott Stringer: “When I left the comptroller's office, that initiative fell…”

Featuring: Scott Stringer, Democratic | Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

New York City Mayoral Race: Scott Stringer Discusses Experience, Reform, and Vision

Published May 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:11

Kept them coming here and staying here. We don't want them in Florida. But, you know, there's an economy that's worth billions if we own it. Unfortunately, When I left the comptroller's office, that initiative fell apart. But I will bring it back with the next controller and with the mayor, and I'm gonna ask the next controller. No, no, you. You letter grade my agencies. (35:11–35:15)

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“I applied to the Community board at the age of 16.”
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“Sutton had appointed two teenagers to the Community board.”
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“City of 8 million people, actually.”
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“Jerry Nadler is sort of the still chairman of the board of that time period.”
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“Michael Ash's election to the assembly.”
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“I have a plan to take those vacant lots that the city owns and turn those lots into the next generation of truly affordable housing.”
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“We need to cut daycare costs by 50%.”
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“We need to baseline 3K and pre K.”
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“Our treasure childcare plan is basically saying to people, look, pay 7% of your income.”
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“There are federal and state subsidies that are huge, that we already deploy.”
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“He cut the MTA.”
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“He hated the city so much. His whole focus in Covid was just upending the city through Bill de Blasio.”
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“I became the first city official to shut down the controller.”
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“Cuomo put a lot of folks on the street and cut a lot of beds.”
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“None of those programs were realized [Eric Adams' campaign promises].”
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“We have a whole generation of children who literally lost a year out of the most important moment in their lives.”
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“We're going to realign the department of education.”
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“We have a broken city government. We have agencies that have been hollowed out.”
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“I fought for procurement reform when I was controller.”
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“I have 30 years of government service, state legislative experience.”
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“As borough president, I worked on land use issues and affordable housing issues, built affordable housing.”
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“As comptroller, when you're the chief fiscal officer for eight years, you've probably seen enough to know what you're facing.”
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“We ended empty seat voting and we had a number of other rules reforms implemented.”
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“We have women in minority owned businesses that get certified as MWBEs, but they get no contracts, no work.”
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“When I was comptroller, I letter graded every single agency, including your own.”
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“I appointed the city's first chief diversity officer, Carol Wallace. Never been done before.”
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“We have millions of dollars to go on television.”
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“We've raised this money $250 at a time.”
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