NYC mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia receives (planned) pie to face on campaign trail
The mayoral contest took a sweet — and messy — twist Sunday, with candidate Kathryn Garcia taking a pie to the face during a campaign stop.
The former sanitation commissioner showed up at a fund-raiser hosted by local personality Paperboy Love Prince in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They are also technically running for mayor and were raising money for the Black Chef Movement, which makes and distributes meals for activists and health care workers.
“The food insecurity issues in New York are really terrible, but this is a fun way to bring information to folks,” Garcia, a Democrat, told reporters. “People are suffering.”
With that, she pressed a tin plate full of whip cream into Prince’s face — and they returned the favor.
“The thing about the pie challenge, the Paperboy pie challenge, is that you never know when it’s going to happen,” they said, suddenly squashing the sticky foodstuff into Garcia’s face midsentence.
As the M train rattled above and passing skateboarders’ wheels scraped the street, the two hugged it out, stray bits of cream still sticking to them.
After the stunt, Garcia repeated her criticism of rival candidates’ attitudes toward her as “sexist.”
“It’s just sexist to presume that I should work for you. Why shouldn’t you be working for me?” she said.
Garcia was repeating comments published in a Saturday “New Yorker” profile in which she blasted businessman Andrew Yang and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams for saying they’d appoint her to their administrations.
“It makes it sound like they’re giving me a compliment, but they’re not,” she was quoted as saying. “To be quite clear: I don’t need you guys, to run this government.”
Mayor de Blasio leaves office at the end of the year due to term limits. The Democratic primary is scheduled for June 22.
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