This is an I-Heart podcast.

Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeartRadio.

My guest today is Maude Maron, a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney and Education

Advocate.

Hi, Mod.

So nice to have you on.

Hi, Carol. I, thrilled to be here.

I know a little bit about your story where, you know, friends in real life, as people like to say,

how did you decide to run for Manhattan District Attorney when that seems like a crazy thing to do?

To me. Yeah, it is a little bit crazy to do to me.

Yeah, it is a little bit crazy.

And to me too, some days I wake up and think,

why in the world did I try to do this?

Why in the world is what I was thinking, yes.

The thing is I've run for office before. The big difference being I ran previously as a Democrat for city council and for

Congress. And this is the first time ever I'm running as a Democrat for city council and for for Congress. And this is the first

time ever I'm running as a Republican. And honestly, the reasons are always kind of the same.

Like I look around at the people who are running my city and I think that person's insane and

has terrible ideas and I would do a better job. Right. Yeah. And, you know, the first

time you run for office, it's a little bit, well, the very first time for me running for office

was like running for my community education council, running for school positions because I'm a

public school mom and all that the schools have school leadership team positions,

...