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“When I think about what motivates me to be in government, it’s making change and impacting public policy,” Miner said on a recent episode of the Max & Murphy podcast from Gotham Gazette and City Limits, adding her contention that “real people are suffering” because of poor public policy in transit, affordable housing, and infrastructure across the state. Miner, a Democrat who was term-limited out of office as mayor of the state’s fifth biggest city at the end of last year, has for months explored the possibility of challenging Governor Andrew Cuomo in this year’s gubernatorial primary election. Her resume also includes the fact that she was the first woman to be elected mayor of Syracuse and her time as the chair of the state Democratic Party, a position she earned in part because of support from Cuomo, who she subsequently had a major falling out with. “For me backroom dealings and politics as usual is not serving anybody,” she said on the podcast. Some of those accused, including another former top aide and several major donors to Cuomo, are set to stand trial beginning in June. “I think elected officials are more interested in serving the needs and desires of vested special interests who give big campaign contributions,” Miner said. Solving these problems is especially difficult in a “brittle” system that discourages a considered and forward-thinking discussion of issues, Miner said. But there’s a fundamental change in leadership need, she said -- New York needs people in power who are collaborative, who listen, who consider alternative viewpoints. You’re always going to know why I disagree with you, and what those grounds are, and that was not something that was tolerated in Andrew Cuomo’s world,” she said. People are hungry for change.” [LISTEN: Max & Murphy Podcast: Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner] Sponsored

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That outpouring of energy has rippled through elections over the last 16 months, as women have turned out in force to vote — and often to punish the Republican Party. Mr. Trump and his advisers have reveled openly in the #MeToo-era downfall of prominent Democrats, most recently Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general who cast himself as a heroic opponent of Mr. Trump and a crusader for women’s rights. As galling as some Democrats’ hypocrisy may be, a president accused by more than a dozen women of groping and forcible kissing can only make things uncomfortable for his party by engaging in a political tit-for-tat, some Republicans outside the White House say. Amanda Carpenter, a Republican strategist who has been critical of Mr. Trump, said the administration’s gleeful reaction to Mr. Schneiderman’s resignation on Monday had been off key and politically myopic. Most of all, Democrats fear that Mr. Trump could escape political repercussions for his actions — and that accused offenders on the left like Mr. Schneiderman might ease the pressure on the president. She predicted those voters would mostly support Democrats, but allowed that sexual misconduct was a problem that crossed party lines. The president campaigned for Roy S. Moore, an alleged child molester, who was defeated in a special election for the Senate in Alabama last year. Ilyse Hogue, a prominent liberal activist who is president of Naral Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights group, called it “incredibly frustrating” to see a disparity between how the parties handle sexual misconduct. “The fact that he sets himself up as immune to consequences really ups the ante.” Ms. Hogue and other Democratic leaders also acknowledged, however, that their party’s internal moment of reckoning was probably still incomplete. Ms. Mark-Viverito, who went public during the 2016 election with her own experience of being sexually abused as a child, called for Mr. Schneiderman’s resignation instantly on Monday night.

The Washington Post reports that President Trump is privately pushing for the U.S. military to fund the construction of his proposed border wall. Former Michigan State University Dean William Strampel, who supervised ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, was charged with four counts, including fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump administration on Monday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly decided to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 10. Today on The Atlantic The Last Straw: For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has tested the limits of the West’s patience. Snapshot What We’re Reading Throwback Strategy: After recent losses in Alabama and Pennsylvania, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled a new ad campaign targeting someone familiar: Hillary Clinton. ‘My City Is Scared of Police’: The family of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police earlier this month, is tired of having to defend Clark’s character. (The New York Times) Testing, Testing Hi readers, Elaine here. Starting next week, we’ll be testing an additional way for you to receive the Politics & Policy Daily newsletter using Amazon’s Alexa. We’ll highlight the day’s news and The Atlantic pieces making sense of it all.