NYTimes interviews and reviews the candidates and endorses Garcia

[empedocles]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/opinion/kathryn-garcia-nyt-endorsement-nyc-mayor.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[Sorry, no pithy snip]

[CottonBear]

1. Article's behind a paywall, so a 4 paragraph excerpt would be helpful. NT

[empedocles]

3. Article was very carefully drafted to not offend.

This excerpt gives some overall, overwhelming, sense of NYT caution:

OPINION
The editorial board met with eight candidates running in New York's Democratic mayoral primary. Read the transcripts below, and more about where candidates stand on key issues here.

'Eric Adams, The former police captain who fought for reform
Shaun Donovan, The Obama and Bloomberg veteran with policy ideas galore
Kathryn Garcia, The civil servant who wants to improve everyday life
Ray McGuire, The former Wall Street executive with a jobs plan
Dianne Morales, The non-profit leader who wants dignity for the poor and working class
Scott Stringer, The city comptroller with a progressive vision for New York
Maya Wiley, The civil rights attorney out to end inequality
Andrew Yang, The former entrepreneur who wants to shake up the city'

[Seemed that they endorsed Garcia as the candidate most likely to succeed at governing, - in their imo seemingly meandering article].

[CottonBear]

7. Thank you! NT

[hlthe2b]

2. Honestly, to post a link to a heavily pay-walled site with not even a few paragraphs excerpted...?

Here:

--snip--
All of the candidates in the June 22 Democratic primary are concerned with the welfare of their city and have thoughtful ideas about how to better it. It is Kathryn Garcia who best understands how to get New York back on its feet and has the temperament and the experience to do so. Ms. Garcia has our endorsement in perhaps the most consequential mayoral contest in a generation.

Voters could be forgiven for knowing little about Ms. Garcia. The pandemic has, to an alarming degree, hustled the hustings out of the neighborhoods and onto Zoom. The early polls in the race show that simple name recognition can have a big impact — on the early polls. Many primary voters say they haven’t made up their minds. So we’d like to help them.

A go-to problem solver for the past decade, Ms. Garcia was hard to miss at City Hall — a confident, gravelly-voiced woman who ran an overwhelmingly male Sanitation Department. She has a zeal for making government work better and was often known to show up ahead of a 6 a.m. shift for roll call not to micromanage but to find out how her people were doing.

At the Department of Environmental Protection under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when swaths of New York City lost power during Superstorm Sandy, knocking out the city’s wastewater treatment systems, it was Ms. Garcia who got them back up and running.

The opinion writers then go on to cite Ms. Garcia's work on modernizing the system that oversees sanitation, snow plowing direction & tracking, managed a food delivery service during COVID that delivered more than 200 million meals..


Next time, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME... It really wasn't that difficullt.

[empedocles]

4. Didn't seem to me, fair to the other candidates. Especially, knowing the targeted

nature of the campaigners, and interested parties here.

[hlthe2b]

5. And that explains why you chose not to excerpt the piece, how?

This is a discussion board. Provide some text from the piece and then discuss why you disagree with it in context.

To post ONLY a link to a heavily pay-walled website that many/most here can't access is extremely unfair to DUers, IMO when all it takes is a few minutes more to provide some excerpts that will provide understanding and a starting point for discussion--which is why we are all here, after all.

[Haggard Celine]

6. I don't live in NY, but I have followed this race a little

and she's my favorite as well. She seems like she has a lot of practical knowledge about the things that are most important to keeping a city running. She also doesn't seem to have any scandal surrounding her.