Yiatin Chu: Running for New York State Senate
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Yiatin Chu runs for New York State Senate
1:52 – From immigrant kid to public school mom
3:20 – "The most powerful people you've never heard of"
4:00 – Why Yiatin decided to run for office
5:24 – What campaigning is like for a first-time candidate
6:53 – Asian Wave Alliance, Tom Suozzi, and Lee Zeldin
9:42 – Why most of us ignore local politics
12:09 – Fighting de Blasio's plan for specialized high schools
14:39 – Crime, shelters, and Lou on Queens magnet schools
18:23 – Richard Carranza and changing school demographics
21:42 – Finding the right school for your child
22:44 – Testifying in Albany on mayoral control
24:54 – The test prep criticism
30:21 – Test scores, talent, and limits
32:43 – Siblings, Lisa Su, and why race isn't the whole story
35:49 – Diane Yap and fighting crime instead of excusing it
38:10 – Pro-criminal policies and shoplifting tax credits
42:44 – Fixing bail reform and discovery laws
46:02 – The Creedmoor migrant shelter
49:10 – Billions for migrant services and legal immigrants' anger
51:52 – Quality of life in Little Neck and Douglaston
53:39 – Election day details and the Stavisky incumbency
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Yiatin Chu, one of New York Magazine's "Most Powerful New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of" and a candidate for New York State Senate in District 11 (which includes Lou's hometown of Little Neck, Queens), joins Lou to talk about ignoring local government to binge the soap opera of national politics, NYC's failing grade on public education, and migrant shelters.
We also get into the local going loco, pro-criminal legislators ruining the city they both love(d), and Lou's unsolicited advice that Congressman Tom Suozzi start pronouncing his last name "Swayze."