Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta. And today I talk to

many-time guests, Bradley Tusk, all about Zohan Mondani's record so far as mayor. But we also

broaden out the discussion for non-New Yorkers just to talk about progressive politics and how we

talk about mayors and how progressives and Democrats and especially Democratic media

talks about the most important material issues, especially for the most vulnerable.

And for those of you don't know, Bradley, he served as Mike Bloomberg's campaign manager

for mayor and then worked in the Bloomberg City Hall. He was deputy governor of Illinois from

2003 to 2006. He worked as Chuck Schumer's

communications director. He was Uber's first political advisor. He runs a venture capital firm.

He owns a bookstore. He's the chair of the Gotham Book Prize. And so he is, and he's a many-time

author or a two-time author, and we'll link to his books in the show notes. I enjoyed both of them. One's a novel. One's a memoir of his time in politics. And so, and Bradley comes at this from the business sector. So he is definitely a technocrat, definitely business-minded. And so you're going to get a review of Mumdani from that perspective. And I think you're

really going to enjoy it. Bradley has done probably more podcasts and articles on the question of

New York City governance and Mondani than anybody I've seen. And so I think you'll really enjoy this.

Let's jump right it.

Bradley Tusk, welcome back.

Hey, man. thanks for having.

Well, we're just talking offline and, you know, this is good timing.

I just moved back, you know, to the neighborhood, the Lower East Side, where I've lived

in and around Lower East Side and Olita for a big chunk of my adult life.

And I'm so fresh that I couldn't even tell you what my cross streets are.

That's how fresh I am back into the neighborhood.

Well, I refuse to do the podcast unless Ravi was back in the neighborhood.

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