Let’s bring safety,
affordability, and
prosperity back to
New York City
On almost every metric, our great city is headed in the wrong direction at an alarming rate. New Yorkers are hurting and angry and looking for change – and I am the only change candidate in the Democratic primary. I’m the only candidate in the race with a business background, and the only one who isn’t a career politician.
Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered innovative solutions to complex problems, from helping local entrepreneurs thrive to supporting global humanitarian initiatives.
I am a pro-business Democrat and a competent manager New Yorkers can trust.
As Mayor, I promise to:
• Revitalize our economy, creating wealth, prosperity, jobs, and higher wages.
• Tackle the affordability crisis, especially housing, which is crushing all but the richest New Yorkers.
• Cut crime 50% in my first term by investing in the communities in which most crime occurs
• End street homelessness. It’s not normal and it’s not acceptable that more than 4,000 people are sleeping on the streets every night. They are suffering and it’s incredibly dangerous for them – and for all of us.
• Fix our public schools.
Why I’m Running for Mayor
This is the greatest city in the world. I wasn’t lucky enough to be born here, so I did the next best thing: I married a New Yorker. After Susan and I finished graduate school in Boston more than 30 years ago, we decided to move here and, as the city got safer, we decided to stay and raise our three daughters here. They’re now 28, 25 and 22. They all went away to college, and now the older two are back and youngest will soon come home when she graduates in May. They’re all launching their careers and plan to build their lives here.
But this happy story of a healthy city in which generation after generation of families stay and thrive is becoming increasingly rare here because things are bad right now, which is why we’ve lost 8% of our population in less than five years, the second-worst of the 70 largest cities in America (trailing only San Francisco’s 10%).
The 8.1 million people here really need the government to work well for them: to make sure their neighborhoods and the subways are safe, provide good healthcare and schools, and make sure housing is affordable.
But instead our party is failing us. I’m a lifelong, hard-core Democrat, but I’m fed up with how badly my party is running this city. It’s become bloated, corrupt and beholden to all sorts of special interests and, as a result, our government is spending way too much and delivering far too little.
So let me tell you how I’m different. I’m the only candidate in the race with a business background and the only one who isn’t a career politician.
While I’m running in the Democratic primary, I’m running against my own party – the political machine and party bosses. That means when I’m elected, I won’t owe anything to anyone, so every hour of every day I will be fighting solely for the people of New York City.
My parents are teachers who met and married in the Peace Corps, and I spent more than half of my childhood in Tanzania and Nicaragua. Thanks to them and my early life experiences, I’ve been tackling big problems, fighting injustice and helping people who are hurting for my entire life.
35 years ago when I graduated from college, I came to New York to help start Teach for America. Five years later, when I graduated from business school, I came back to New York (and never left) to run a nonprofit organization I founded that’s still going strong to this day called the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. When COVID hit, I didn’t run away; I walked across the street and spent 12 hours a day for three months helping build the field hospital in Central Park and supporting the doctors and nurses there who were saving the lives of New Yorkers. And three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, I was inspired by the bravery of the Ukrainians and have raised over $18 million and been to Ukraine four times, dodging Russian drones on the front lines, to support the soldiers fighting for their country’s freedom.
That’s what this campaign is! Running towards the fire, once again, to help my city and fellow New Yorkers.
