If we only had a few million more people like her! Great interview. I hope she's successful, and I hope that you get a chance to interview her again in a year or so. It'll be interesting to see what obstacles and challenges she's dealing with. Change ain't easy.
So many great topics covered in this interview. While it's unlikely all of them will be addressed, it's incredibly refreshing to hear politicians prioritize the needs of people who actually make the city.
I like these interviews, but Ms. Su remains an expert in dodging hard questions -- not only about NY vs. CA but about what she is actually going to do to help working folks. That was a good bit of hot air and her track record is, to put it kindly, not great. She provided very little substance here and I think you needed to hit a bit harder. One of the reasons she was not made Secretary of Labor relates to the campaign against her by what remains of the Republican congressional contingent from California -- but unlike so many other right wing nutters, they had some pretty good reasons. In California, her "leadership" allowed for over $30 billion (yes with a "b") of unemployment fraud conducted organized crime (and even prisoners) during the distribution of Covid era benefits and she never took accountability for her part in that colossal failure to deliver those funds to the right folks. And I cannot delve too deeply into her (and many others') utter failure in the campaign to get gig workers more economic and legal rights here - suffice to say again there was a helpful villain (tech companies) to blame for the failure, but that obscures the political ineptitude of the unions/progressives/Dems here (including Ms. Su and Governor Newsom) to deploy the right resources . . . thus they could not defeat a proposition that overturned laws favorable to labor. Hearing only "second hand" that business folks may be organizing against her NYC efforts sounds like a recipe for a similar fiasco in NYC. California may currently lead the nation in politicos who talk a good progressive game and then utterly fail to deliver for working people. We exported Ms. Su to DC and from there she managed to land in NYC. And Newsom is now gunning for DC on a similarly thin record of actual progress on progressive matters. I am sure Ms. Su is well-intentioned, but her failing up (or sideways?) is not sufficient. We do not do ourselves any favors politically or practically on the left when we let incompetence slide or deny accountability for our failures. You don't have to be so hard on your interview subjects or political allies that they come to hate you (Ralph Nader comes to mind). But since I know you've covered boxing, let me put it this way: You cannot let these pols bob and weave without at least trying to land a few punches.
If we only had a few million more people like her! Great interview. I hope she's successful, and I hope that you get a chance to interview her again in a year or so. It'll be interesting to see what obstacles and challenges she's dealing with. Change ain't easy.
So many great topics covered in this interview. While it's unlikely all of them will be addressed, it's incredibly refreshing to hear politicians prioritize the needs of people who actually make the city.
I like these interviews, but Ms. Su remains an expert in dodging hard questions -- not only about NY vs. CA but about what she is actually going to do to help working folks. That was a good bit of hot air and her track record is, to put it kindly, not great. She provided very little substance here and I think you needed to hit a bit harder. One of the reasons she was not made Secretary of Labor relates to the campaign against her by what remains of the Republican congressional contingent from California -- but unlike so many other right wing nutters, they had some pretty good reasons. In California, her "leadership" allowed for over $30 billion (yes with a "b") of unemployment fraud conducted organized crime (and even prisoners) during the distribution of Covid era benefits and she never took accountability for her part in that colossal failure to deliver those funds to the right folks. And I cannot delve too deeply into her (and many others') utter failure in the campaign to get gig workers more economic and legal rights here - suffice to say again there was a helpful villain (tech companies) to blame for the failure, but that obscures the political ineptitude of the unions/progressives/Dems here (including Ms. Su and Governor Newsom) to deploy the right resources . . . thus they could not defeat a proposition that overturned laws favorable to labor. Hearing only "second hand" that business folks may be organizing against her NYC efforts sounds like a recipe for a similar fiasco in NYC. California may currently lead the nation in politicos who talk a good progressive game and then utterly fail to deliver for working people. We exported Ms. Su to DC and from there she managed to land in NYC. And Newsom is now gunning for DC on a similarly thin record of actual progress on progressive matters. I am sure Ms. Su is well-intentioned, but her failing up (or sideways?) is not sufficient. We do not do ourselves any favors politically or practically on the left when we let incompetence slide or deny accountability for our failures. You don't have to be so hard on your interview subjects or political allies that they come to hate you (Ralph Nader comes to mind). But since I know you've covered boxing, let me put it this way: You cannot let these pols bob and weave without at least trying to land a few punches.
Super! A human being with a heart and a brain. It's way past time. Maybe there is hope.