Bill de Blasio Releases Epic Campaign Platform

by Matthew Hampton

Brooklyn's home-field mayoral candidate, Bill de Blasio, released a sprawling campaign platform Wednesday titled "One New York, Rising Together." 

The 68-page statement of purpose included goals for the city on topics like sustainability, health care, housing and transit. 

The PDF, available on de Blasio's website, includes a number of suggestions, including streamlining existing job-training and public education initiatives, opening health centers and eliminating the controversial school letter-grade evaluation system. 

"As mayor, I’ll spend every waking moment fighting to bring opportunity to every New Yorker — with a plan to create jobs in all five boroughs; a dramatic expansion of affordable housing and accessible health care; increasing taxes on the wealthy to fund early childhood and after-school programs; and building police-community relations that keep everyone safer," de Blasio wrote in the platform's introductory letter.

The platform was similar to a bulleted plan released by rivalmayoral candidate Anthony Weiner in April.

In an interview with the New York Times, de Blasio took a bit of a dig at Weiner's plan, intimating that it was a rehash of old press releases.