Hello and welcome to another episode of the City Journal podcast.

I am your host, Raphael Mangual, and I am so happy to be joined by my brilliant colleagues.

We've got John Ketchum and Nicole Jelineas, the great Nicole Jalinas, welcome to the show.

Thank you. So I want to just jump right into the big news, which is the mayoral debate last night.

You had Zoramam Dani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Lee were finally waking up from the dead, it seemed, you know, having it out on stage at LaGuardia Community College.

What did you all make of the debate?

What were some of the big moments that kind of caught your attention?

John, sorry you.

So the biggest moment for me, I have an ear for policy.

We're in the business.

Sure, yeah.

I think it's apparent to everyone that Zoran Mamadani has a thin veneer on his proposals.

And that came through when he refused to answer on the three citywide ballot questions

relating to housing development.

It wasn't so much a refusal as it was a very clear indication that he hadn't even given

any thought. I don't think he could have told you what the city ballot initiatives were

had he been asked to follow up on that. Right. And voters are going to start early voting on

Saturday. They're going to be asked to weigh in on these questions.

And many debate viewers are going to see him as less prepared potentially than an ordinary

voter.

Yeah.

And these are pretty significant ballot questions.

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