Key Issues to Include Education Reform, Political Corruption, MTA, Wall Street.

Hawkins will outline his campaign program. Hawkins will focus on the need for education reform, including increased state financial aid; support for public schools rather than charters; replacing Common Core and high-stakes testing with common standards and diagnostic tests written by teachers, not corporate contractors; and Mayoral control. He will also discuss the need for increase state support for mass transit and Cuomo's raid on funding for the MTA.

Hawkins will outline his agenda for political reform. He is a long time advocate for a full public campaign finance system like Maine and Arizona rather than the NYC partial public finance system pushed by Cuomo. He is also critical of Cuomo's handling of the Moreland Commission.