When I first read that Mayor Adams was considering nominating Randy Mastro to become Corporation Counsel, heading the City's 800-lawyer Law Department, I
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As a leading spokesperson for the Mayor and former Chair of the Liberal Party, I was widely viewed as the Giuliani administration’s chief progressive advocate – the go-to person for everything from abortion rights, clinic access, and gun control to LGBT rights, homelessness, immigration, and AIDS policy. But the Mayor whom I served three decades ago was no ideologue. He was first and foremost, a pragmatic problem solver who didn’t particularly care where a good solution came from.
And collaborating with colleagues and law enforcement, Randy spearheaded initiatives ridding the Fulton Fish Market and private carting industry of organized crime corruption, for which he received La Cosa Nostra death threats, and resolving the street vendor crisis on 125th Street in Harlem, which ultimately benefited all businesses in that now thriving neighborhood.
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