As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.

I see that that 'American dream' is slipping away because we're not solving the problems of today, we're not planning for the future.

When you compare mayors to Washington insiders, Americans see that mayors actually get the job done.

In terms of the Green New Deal, I support the urgency and the end goal of the Green New Deal. I would look to work with our climatologists, economists to propose my own plan and how we would meet those goals.