HSAY 018 - Rev. Michel Faulkner - NY mayor candidate | Republican | NFL Athlete Quote: “For New yorkers, it's not just ‘our’ city, it actually belongs to the world!” Background: For more than 30 years, Rev. Michel Faulkner has dedicated his life to serving his community. Michel Faulkner is the only Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City, a former New York Jet and businessman. His Church in Harlem is responsible for thousands of people finding employment through their Jobs Partnership. Michel supports school choice and is a strong and vocal advocate for the Police. Highlights: Candidate for mayor of new york Positive uplifting and timely messaging on social media ---? NY is a world capital - Everybody comes to new york sometime or another For New yorkers, it's not just ‘our’ city, it actually belongs to the world. Michel  is working on NY being an expensive city. Making it more accessible. Been working to serve the people of NY for the past 30 years. He thinks NY needs to have principal leadership - the focus being on - jobs, education, tax reforms, on making things better so NY can move forward. The culture and ambience of the city can be enhanced. It is diminished right now because of the plaguing issues they’ve been facing recently. Michel  is running to help the middle class survive in NY, enhance the ambience and revive true culture of the city. “I’m a New Yorker, I have a NY attitude and NY values”, says Michel “I value all people, the dignity of all people, their worth.” “I don’t care what their political persuasion is, their ethnicity is, their socio-economic status, or their sexual orientation, what matters to me is healing new york.” “Unity is our destiny” “We need to be selfish and focus on maintaining structural and cultural integrity of NY” “NY is a place of hardworking people, if you have a dream and are willing to work hard to bring that dream to life, you should have a chance to do that in NY.” “NY has always been accepting of dreamers. I’m a dreamer, pragmatic dreamer” “Everybody has a job and a hustle in New York” and that’s a youth culture Michel  stressed upon. “We’ve made some amazing gains and strides. We cannot let it slip by. We need to move forward.” There has been a diminishing return on education system, students of public schools are unprepared when they graduate. Michel  will look into jobs and education. “The best way to empower citizens is to connect them with the police”, Michel  will work to enhance police-community relations. “NYPD is the best in the world with what they do” “We started the blue ribbon campaign for the unity in police community. It focused on 3 things- Affirmation of police officers, Appreciation of their jobs, accountability - police being accountable and citizens being responsible citizens” Michel  started tweeting and let people engage with each other at the time of the haiti quake - Provided food and help to people who were starving. Social media is a great enhancer for community relations. Big challenge is to get people behind social media to actually come out and take action and interact in communities. Social media works best when receivers are dynamic participants “More or less social because of social media ?” “I started a group called NY youth leaders network - used snail mail because there were no cell phones back then. People read the mail and took action.” 140 characters can change stock markets, bring notice to the entire globe. Traditional media stands shaken. The mayoral race is not about what’s wrong with NYC but about preserving what is right with NYC. “I will raise the level of engagement of stakeholders in NYC. It won’t be passive, it will  be dynamic, there will be action groups, social media groups, people will be able to raise their voices, their concerns and we will fix what is broken and hence move NY forward.” I am a great listener of people as long as we all are speaking the same language of healing the great city of NY. Connect: Twitter: @michelfaulkner and @FaulknerMayor2017 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michel.faulkner/ Website : http://faulknerfornewyork.com/ I hope you enjoyed and found value on this episode of The How Social Are You Podcast please feel free to share it on social media with your followers. You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spreaker, SoundCloud and Google Play. Your ratings and comments on iTunes are greatly appreciated. If you have questions about The How Social Are You Podcast or would like to be interviewed you can tweet or direct message me on GAB the new People First / Free Speech Social Network https://gab.ai/ at @ML as well as on Twitter @mlindheimer or on Instagram @mlindheimer and lastly on Facebook melindheimer and you can also email me at mlindheimer@gmail.com.   Until next time, thank's everybody!