Brian Lairer on WNYC.

Now another guest appearance by another New York City, Mayor O'Rill Hopeful.

We're inviting all the major candidates running in the primaries for Mayor of New York

and Governor of New Jersey.

Today it's New York City Comptroller, Brad Lander, hoping to move up that one last peg, since

Comptroller is already a citywide elected office, up one more peg, and become mayor of the city

after overseeing the city's finances, as the Comptroller does, and being a leader of the city council's progressive caucus

as a council member from Brooklyn before that.

Controller Lander, thanks for coming on again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Good morning, Brian. Thank you.

And let's start with some Bradlander campaign news.

I see your campaign is releasing today what you call a public integrity

plan. What's new here? Well, thank you. Yes. Obviously, what's new here is we need public

integrity back at City Hall. Mayor Adams has abandoned it in so many ways. Obviously, some of them

he's under indictment for, but some of them are as simple as not coming and talking to reporters.

You know, prior mayors came on regularly the Brian Laird Show to talk to you.

I'm going to have a more transparent administration.

Look forward to being back here.

One of the big structural ideas is to make the conflicts of interest board genuinely independent.

I don't think most New Yorkers know this, but a majority of the conflicts of interest

board are appointed by the mayor, and that means they can't do as good an independent job.

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