Bit of a disagreement at this NYC mayoral forum on speaking order, with Scott Stringer trying to get another turn before other candidates got to talk.

"Our addiction on outside consultants is something that will stop immediately as mayor," @ericadamsfornyc says.

Ray McGuire is talking about the need to close the NYC budget deficit without cutting, without over spending .... but also spending a bunch of money on infrastructure and broadband, "operate more efficiently but create jobs." Says a detailed plan is forthcoming this week.

Maya Wiley has been very effective during this forum at dropping figures and campaign plans early in her answers.

Both Scott Stringer and Shaun Donovan have a similar tone and structure to their answers: Look at what I did, I'm the only person qualified to do this, the solutions are actually quite simple.

I mean who knows with this whole primary campaign being remote, quite short and involving ranked choice voting for the first time, but it seems like there are clear lanes/coalitions for Adams, Yang, and maybe a third. Lots of overlap among the other candidates.

That third lane could be the big X factor of youth turnout and more of a left wing base. Carlos Menchaca is the only candidate who leans fully into slogans like Abolish ICE, Defund the Police etc. (he has some on the white board behind him).

The other possibility for a third lane is drawing younger, more progressive voters who are skeptical of Yang and find Adams to be too moderate. If that's not Menchaca, Kathryn Garcia could strike it up with them, or maybe Dianne Morales. Not sure where this leaves Wiley.

Ray McGuire talks about being a 6'4 black man dealing with the NYPD. Says the car he was in got stopped the day he was filming his campaign launch video, and the predictable tensions were palpable.

His framework for police reform is RAP: Respectful, Accountable and Proportionate

Scott Stringer: "I remember when the A train was a rolling crime scene ... But I do know the over policing of communities of color needs to stop."

Stringer is talking about the school to prison pipeline, recalling his efforts in the assembly to stop more prisons from being built upstate, where towns were building "an entire industry" out of incarcerating black kids and young men from NYC

Yang is now up for the police reform question. He's a little peeved he hasn't gotten a turn over the past couple questions.

"Imagine all of the uses of $200 million plus a year" that would go to local schools and other programs instead of settling NYPD lawsuits, he says.

"We need to take an all hands on deck approach to these issues," Yang continues. Says the rate of solved crimes going down as crime goes up is concerning. Calls for boosting the "efficacy" of policing while also reforming the culture.

Carlos Menchaca also brings up the $200 million lawsuit figure. Says overtime caps did not work with the NYPD. "Because we know that more police don't equal more public safety — that's the message that's been coming from our youth."

Yikes I created a sep thread by accident when the mic went to Morales: https://twitter.com/JakeLahut/status/1353864533719314433?s=20

Yang is proposing that the city take over unoccupied hotels and eventually retail & office buildings into affordable housing

The short explanation for a lot of the problems being addressed at this NYC mayoral forum: Robert Moses

Stringer is doing a brief history of affordable housing in NYC, going back to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia

Stringer: "It breaks my heart to go to Brooklyn and see the Ingersoll houses, and across the street is the luxury high rise development."

Says NYCHA is $40 million short of being fully funded by the federal govt.