Christine Quinn Announces NYC Mayoral Bid

She's an early front-runner.

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This morning, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced that she is officially running for mayor of New York City. "Why? I’m running because I want to make sure that New York remains what it was when my grandparents came here a hundred years ago: a place where, with good, honest work, you could lift your family into the middle class," she wrote on her website.

In addition, here's an official statement that was posted on her website:

Today, too many families face an affordability crisis that is simply squeezing them out of our city. We must change that.

If elected, Quinn would become the city's first openly gay mayor as well as its first female mayor. In addition to tweeting the news, Quinn released a video about the launch of her campaign. You can watch it below.

View this video on YouTube

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[via Gothamist]

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