Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Adrienne Adams
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. Now we continue our |
| 0:16.6 | interviews with all the major candidates in the primaries coming this June for mayor of New York and governor of New Jersey. |
| 0:23.6 | With us now is City Council Speaker Adrian Adams, who's running to be the Democratic nominee in this year's mayoral race. |
| 0:31.0 | Speaker Adams was elected to her leadership post by the council. |
| 0:35.1 | In January of 2022, she's the first African-American to hold her position |
| 0:39.8 | and the first woman to represent District 28 in Southeast Queens. Now she'd like to be the first |
| 0:46.4 | woman to hold the top position in New York City government as well. Speaker Adams, welcome back |
| 0:51.6 | to WNYC. Great to be back, Bridget. Thank you. |
| 0:55.8 | And listeners, we're going to open up the phones for you right away. |
| 0:58.9 | We can take your questions for Speaker Adams on her work in the city council. |
| 1:03.4 | We'll get to the council's lawsuit against Mayor Adams and the Trump administration over the move to reopen ICE at Rikers Island, as well as budget negotiations |
| 1:11.7 | that are currently underway. |
| 1:12.9 | You can call or text us with questions about her mayoral run. |
| 1:16.6 | The number is 212-433 W-N-YC. |
| 1:20.3 | That's 212-433-9692. |
| 1:25.1 | And Speaker Adams, you entered the mayoral race a little bit on the later side in |
| 1:29.6 | comparison to the other candidates. What was keeping you on the fence about running until March? |
| 1:34.4 | And can you share a little bit about yourself for listeners who are just meeting you here for the first time? |
| 1:39.7 | Oh, sure. Sure, I can. Well, as you said, I am the first African-American speaker of the New York City Council and have been leading the first women majority in the most diverse city council that this city has ever seen before. I was elected in 2017 as the first woman to represent District 28, that's in Southeast Queens. |
| 2:01.6 | And I have been having an amazing time going through my campaign to be the first woman mayor of the city of New York, |
| 2:09.6 | the only candidate in this race actually that has overall city knowledge of what it takes to negotiate three budgets and am now working on our fourth budget, |
| 2:21.3 | as well as a lot of other things. I know the agencies, I know the nonprofits, I know the people, |
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