Meet Lucian Wintrich
Our district carries the cultural, economic, and intellectual weight of the country. Yet we pay more, receive less, and are routinely ignored when national decisions are made. Ineffective leadership has pushed people out of this city and welcomed candidates who treat politics like a hobby and a ticket to the Met Gala.
That disconnect is real. I have seen it up close. I have worked inside the DC federal press corps, trained under one of America’s top policy strategists, and spent the last decade in policy consulting, media, and New York’s creative industries. I have watched how federal decisions hit New Yorkers harder than anyone else, and how little Washington understands or cares about the people who keep this city running.
Across New York, daily life feels like a constant negotiation with cost, disorder, and incompetence. You end up paying $14 for toothpaste after the city hits you with nearly 9% in sales tax, watch someone walk out with a trash bag full of makeup and shampoo, then it hits you: the system is rigged against the people who play by the rules. New Yorkers are treated like an ATM: taxed, lectured, and told this dysfunction is the new normal. It’s not. This is fixable, but only with real measurable change.
The other candidates? Micah is a career bureaucrat, Nadler’s mini-me, Hochul’s policy director. His site is a donate button and a mail-in address, nothing else. Then you’ve got Cameron and Jack rolling out “12 points for the 12th District,” polished but empty lists that say nothing and solve even less. It’s a joke. Just recycled lines and dynasty-era branding.
If they are giving you 12 empty points, I am giving you 24 real ones, because I believe in this district twice as much and I believe in offering actual solutions. These are concrete, implementable reforms written for the people who live here, not for consultants or donors. I will publish a public scorecard and report progress quarterly.
My promise is simple: I will use every federal lever available, from funding to oversight to accountability, to reduce costs, restore public order, and make government finally work for New Yorkers instead of the other way around.
Let’s get rid of the bureaucracy and get back to serving real people. It's time to put New York First.
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