Kathryn Garcia

Served as NYC’s first woman Sanitation Commissioner and was CEO of NYC Housing Authority. Most recently Garcia was Food Czar for the city’s COVID-19 food program. During Hurricane Sandy, she managed the city’s water waste treatment emergency.

Kathryn Garcia

Served as NYC’s first woman Sanitation Commissioner and was CEO of NYC Housing Authority. Most recently Garcia was Food Czar for the city’s COVID-19 food program. During Hurricane Sandy, she managed the city’s water waste treatment emergency.

The Questions

1. What policy would you begin to implement in your first 100 days in office and how would you do it?

2. What past management experience have you had and how would this influence your role as mayor?

3. NYC suffers from an outdated and unsustainable public transportation system. What steps would you take to fix it?

4. If elected, what are three steps you would take to address New York’s increasing homeless population?

5. In the wake of the pandemic, what would you do to retain small retail businesses & restaurants in New York City?

6. What concrete measures would you take to respond to increases in racism, anti AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander), Islamophobia and anti Semitism, and other forms of hatred?

7. Who is funding your campaign, and whose donations, if any, are you refusing to accept?

8. What’s your experience fighting climate change, and how would you apply that to your job as Mayor?

9. What would you do to ensure that “affordable” housing is low income housing and truly affordable?

10. How would you ensure penalties and discipline are imposed on police officers that reflect their wrongdoing?

11. How do we desegregate NYC public schools?

12. What legislation would you support to provide artists with the infrastructure they need to afford to live and work in NYC?

11. What woman has influenced you the most in your life and how?

14. In under 20 words, if there was one thing you could change about New York what would it be? And in 90 seconds why?

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