City Politics: Free Speech; School Bathrooms; Endorsements and Non-Endorsements
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Marrishow on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We begin today with our weekly Wednesday |
| 0:16.7 | visit about city politics and particularly the New York City mayoral race from WNYC and |
| 0:22.2 | Gothamist political reporter Elizabeth Kim. Some of the headlines will discuss. Mom Dani gets involved |
| 0:28.0 | in the Jimmy Kimmel suspension with an ABC suspension of his own. Kamala Harris endorses Mom |
| 0:35.6 | Donnie, though that endorsement is being described as |
| 0:37.9 | Teppard, but she endorsed him. Chuck Schumer, not so much. Swazzy and Gillen, Congress |
| 0:44.7 | members, Democrats from Long Island, and the New York State Democratic Party Chief, not at all. |
| 0:50.7 | And the chief Republican, a guy named Donald Trump, supporting Republican Curtis Leaver, right? |
| 0:56.3 | Well, there's also Mayor Adams campaigning by targeting school bathrooms, and how far is too far |
| 1:03.8 | when it comes to advocating for charter schools, was canceling classes to have kids out electioneering |
| 1:10.4 | a lesson too far. |
| 1:12.9 | Let's see how much we can get to. |
| 1:14.3 | And listeners, your questions and comments are welcome on any of these things as usual or anything else relevant. |
| 1:20.1 | 212-433. |
| 1:22.4 | WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. |
| 1:26.9 | You can call or you can text. Hello again, Liz. Happy Wednesday, Brian. |
| 1:32.7 | So let's start with Mom Donnie canceling a town hall that he had committed to on Channel 7, |
| 1:43.3 | which is, of course, the local ABC affiliate over the |
| 1:47.0 | Jimmy Kimmel suspension. Now that Kimmel is back on the air here anyway, if not at all affiliates |
| 1:53.4 | owned by conservative companies. He's now planning to participate. Is that correct? |
| 1:59.0 | Right. What happened was Mamdani held a press conference on Monday morning |
| 2:04.6 | at Four Freedoms Park in Roosevelt Avenue, you know, for this, you get the symbol. Roosevelt Island, |
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