What this is
A constituent-facing archive of the NY-17 Democratic primary forums and debates: each event embedded in full, with speaker-separated transcripts and a clip explorer that jumps to the exact moment a candidate spoke on a given issue. It takes no side and endorses no candidate — it simply makes the public forum record searchable.
How the forums were found
Forums were located through a deep multi-venue sweep — YouTube, the League of Women Voters, county and town Democratic committees, local cable access, and civic and issue organizations. Where a recording exists, it is embedded from its original source; nothing is re-hosted or re-edited.
How the transcripts and clips were made
Audio was transcribed with OpenAI's Whisper and speakers were attributed from each forum's moderated running order. Clips are pointers into the original video at a tagged timestamp. Automated transcription can mis-hear words or occasionally mis-attribute a line, so transcripts are a finding aid — confirm anything important against the source video.
Corrections
If you spot a misattribution, a missing forum, or a transcription error, corrections are welcome and will be applied to the record.