NYC Mayoral Candidate Adolfo Carrion's Education Plan

World-Class Schools in Every Neighborhood
A Student-Centered Transformation of the NYC Public School System

This is from an Independent Party member Ramon Pena:

While everyone talks about Reforming our education system, the Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion is talking about Transforming it. It is important to look and listen to the sereneness of his message. He was a teacher so he knows what he is talking about. Independent leadership not politics as usual is what is needed in this city!!!

As the General Election get closer, Carrion will present his plans to address:

- Affordability
- Economic Development
- Health - Wellness
- Housing
- Job Creation
- Parks - Recreation
- Safety
- Sustainability - The Big Green Apple
- Transportation - Infrastructure


Listen to Adolfo on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show discusses his campaign on the Independence Party ticket.

I attended this event, standing on the steps of City Hall. Later that night I attend a House Party/Fundraiser on the Eastside of Manhattan in my District, the 73rd AD. There was about 30 interested independents and Adolfo gave his plans for the future of the city and had a spirited Q/A.

CLICK HERE to read the report on Education, which is a PDF document.










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Michael H. Drucker
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Adolfo Carrion Jr. on City&State New York

Former Bronx Borough President and mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrion, Jr. discusses his political ideology and what he sees his path to victory in a video interview with Morgan Pehme of City&State New York.

Formed from the merger of City Hall and The Capitol newspapers, City&State New York provides insightful and detailed coverage of the politics, the policies and the people that drive New York.




Earlier this week, Adolfo hosted the Carrion 2013 petition team at campaign headquarters for a pizza party to say thanks for running the best petition operation in New York City. As a petitioner, I enjoyed the pizza, meeting my callers, and talking with Adolfo about were we go from here to win in November.










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Adolfo Carrion Jr. Filed His Petition for Mayor of NYC

On Wednesday morning, July 10, 2013, Adolfo Carrion, Jr. helped Independence Party leaders carry more than 25 volumes of petitions into the New York City Board of Elections making him the first mayoral candidate assured a place on the November ballot.

He said “New Yorkers want more choices than what the political establishment is giving them. We will give them that independent choice."


Having pledged to up-end the political landscape and give New Yorkers a truly independent choice for Mayor, Adolfo Carrión, Jr. filed more than 5,000 Independence Party signatures.

I collected over 100 signatures on the Eastside of Manhattan and on July 8th, collected the 5,000th signature.

CLICK HERE to view Adolfo's website for Mayor.










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Michael H. Drucker
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Petitioning for NYC Mayoral Candidate Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Petitioning training at Carrion Headquarters
Adolfo Carrion Jr., the former New York City Council member,Bronx Borough President, and former Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, is running for Mayor of New York City as an independent.

Last Monday, volunteers began to petition to place his name on the New York City Independence Party line for the November election. Mr. Carrion has a deep commitment to urban development and his decision to run as an independent grew out of his recognition that the partisan orthodoxy in New York City was impeding much needed innovation and out-of-the-box thinking about poverty, job creation, and education reform.

I started collecting petition signatures on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013. I usually collect petition signatures on the mid and upper East Side of Manhattan. This year I am doing it be zip code. I have to collect around 100 signatures. In New York, I can only collect the signatures after my caller gets the OK from the signer. So each night during the week, from around 6pm to 9pm, I am running around that nights zip code collecting as many as I can get too. In the last couple of nights, I could have used a rowboat.

CLICK HERE for his website to get more information about the candidate.










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Michael H. Drucker
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Adolfo Carrion's Kick Off Rally for 2013 NYC Mayoral Race

I attended the Kick Off Rally for the Hon. Adolfo Carrion Jr.'s launch of his Independent campaign for Mayor of New York City tonight, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.


CLICK HERE to view the rally on NY1.

In his first speech as a candidate he pledged to re-engage New Yorkers discouraged by partisan politics and special interests. Carrion dropped his Democratic Party enrollment in the fall to run with the Independence Party, which endorsed him last week. This sets up a possibility for a three-way general election in November.

The last time a mayoral candidate won office solely on a third party line was in 1969, when John Lindsey won reelection as a member of the Liberal Party.



As the candidate of the New York City Independence Party Organizations, he will be using our phone bank operation and our grassroots street operations to get out the vote, help with his Town Hall meetings, and be there on election day in November.










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Michael H. Drucker
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Adolfo Carrion NYC Mayoral Campaign KICKOFF Rally

As he accepted the New York City Independence Party nomination, he focused on low voter turnout in citywide elections in his first major speech of the campaign. He called the 28 percent turnout in the 2009 mayoral election a crisis. “I'm interested in waking up that sleeping giant. We know who they are, and we know they care about the future of the city," Carrion said. "They are unfortunately and clearly making a statement that they are not satisfied when their choices... Well today, Independence Party, you gave New Yorkers a choice."

One of the things that the Independence Party feels very good about in terms of this campaign is that not only is Adolfo Carrion a supporter of their political reforms, his campaign actually is a political reform.

He calls himself a social progressive and fiscal conservative.

His KICKOFF RALLY, will be Tuesday, February 26th at:

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY.

Doors will open at 5:30pm and Event begins at 6:00pm.

Please RSVP by February 24th at: CARRIONNYC2013@GMAIL.COM or call 646-722-4273.

CLICK HERE for his new website.










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Adolfo Carrion, Jr. Endorsed as the Mayoral Candidate of The NYC Independence Party Organizations

Tonight, The Executive Committee of The New York City Independence Party Organizations, endorsed the independent, Adolfo Carrion Jr., as its mayoral candidate.



This is the second independent candidate, Mayor Bloomberg was the first in his third campaign, to be endorsed by the party and guarantees the minimum of a three party mayoral race in November 2013 and the possibility of the city's first Latino mayor.

Mr. Carrion is the former City Council member, Bronx Borough President, Director of the Office of Urban Affairs in the Obama Administration, and Regional Director of HUD for New York and New Jersey.

Next, is filing a Wilson Pakula, the document that lets a non-party candidate run on a party line.

But then the fun begins.

Will he also get the ability to run in the Republican Primary?

We also will need to spend June through July to get the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot.



I first met Adolfo at the party's December 2012 Anti-Corruption Awards. After his speech, I heard someone with a fire in their belly and someone who understood independent politics.

As a member of the New York City Independence Party's Executive Committee representing the Eastside of Manhattan (73rd AD), I had a phone conversation with Adolfo on Sunday, February 10th about his run for mayor. On our conversation about Political Reform, he said, "I'm writing a piece on nonpartisan municipal elections. The parties are always running on "litmus test" issues, rather than focusing on how to fix things. We should be focused on public safety, education, and building the economy. As Fiorello LaGuardia said, there's no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the garbage. The political process needs fixing. My candidacy gives us the opportunity to advance that. This campaign can disprove the notion that independents can't succeed."

His KICKOFF RALLY, will be Tuesday, February 26th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY. Doors will open at 5:30pm and Event begins at 6:00pm.

Please RSVP by February 24th at: CARRIONNYC2013@GMAIL.COM or call 646-722-4273.










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