Mayor Eric Adams, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Brace Belden.

Along with my partner, Liz Franzac, I help run forward together better tomorrow, a strategy-style firm.

And we have put together some suggestions for you for your next speech.

Liz will take it from here.

Her voice has been described as more sonorous than mine.

And I unfortunately have gotten some feedback a little bit critical that I do sort of a race accent when I have been doing these lines.

So Liz will be reading this.

He's making the video. I'm making the city go. He's making the video.

I'm making the city go.

He's at the masjid.

I'm at the mosque.

If he's at the mosque, then I'm with the boss.

That's right.

That would be God, the most high, with whom none of this would be possible.

I'm running to be your mayor to run this city.

He's running to be gayer. We call that DSA-E. They use the F-word for profanity. We use an F-word, faith in his son that died for you and me. But no more sons should be dead. No more. Gun violence has got to stop. My opponent promises a handout. I'm giving you a hand up.

When I was young, I couldn't read. Now I'm literate, hitting it, and I'm sticking with it.

You elected me to get rid of the rats, invent the garbage can, and make New York City the New York City of New York State.

My opponent is a gay Muslim who hates Jews

and wants to make your neighborhood into Ridgewood.

I've got God. He's got Emerita.

I've got faith.

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