Weiner Issues Policy Memo For Potential Mayoral Run

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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner released a 21-page policy booklet Sunday as he explores a run for New York mayor, the New York Times reported

According to the Times, the booklet has the same name, “Keys to the City,” as well as very similar content to a policy memo he issued in 2009 when he was exploring a mayoral bid which he later abandoned.

Mr. Weiner, who said the report was intended merely to “generate some discussion,” did expand on his old ideas and added a few new ones, including a city-run single-payer health care program; a requirement that sex offenders wear GPS tags for easy tracking; and a British House of Commons-style “question time” for New York City’s mayor.

 

But many sentences and, in some cases, complete paragraphs, are repeated verbatim from the earlier document, and the updated booklet does not address many high-profile issues in this year’s mayoral contest, including the police tactic of stop, question and frisk.

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