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July 2, 2025
NEW YORK CITY SOCIALIST MAMDANI IS NOT SURE BET TO BE ELECTED MAYOR
An old adage states that if you are young and not a liberal then you have no heart, and if you are old and still a liberal then you have no brain. As demonstrated in New York City in the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary, if you are young and socialist and voted for Zohran Mamdani then you think you have a brain and if you are older/old and wealthy and voted for Mamdani then you have no brain. Mamdani, a 33-year old Socialist whose critics have said is an anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas supporter of a global Intifada, which calls for people from around the globe to participate in rising up against Israel, won the primary (see CHART) 432,305-361,840 over ex-governor Andrew Cuomo getting 43.5 percent. He won by promising a whole lot of free stuff to everybody who doesn’t have stuff to be paid for by everybody who has already earned some wealth to accumulate a lot of stuff. That is the very essence of Socialism/Marxism/Communism. Mamdani, who has no executive experience, promises (1) rent control, (2) defunding the police and replacing NYPD street officers with social workers, (3) no cash bail (already a state law) and emptying prisons, (4) fighting private healthcare insurance, (5) maintaining NYC as a Sanctuary City, which costs $5 billion annually and also no co-operation with ICE and Trump, (6) free daycare, (7) free needles and injection sites for drug addicts, (8) expanding gender-affirming care, (9) free abortion and contraceptives, (10) grocery stores run by the city with price controls, (11) a $30-an hour minimum wage and (13) free public transit. I think he forgot about a guaranteed minimum income, maybe 5K a month for every New Yorker? Imagine the cost. That’s next. HURRY UP AND WAIT: Now that governor JB Pritzker (D), has deigned to bless us with the privilege of having him as our governor until 2031, it’s shelter-in-place for every other statewide Democratic officeholder – Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Treasurer Mike Frerichs and Comptroller Susana Mendoza. In other words either run for re-election in 2026 and wait to run for governor in 2030. Or run for Chicago mayor in 2027. And that is exactly what Mendoza, who lives in Portage Park, is likely pondering – which is running against Johnson. Cook County Democratic slatemakers meet July 17-18 to endorse a county and state ticket and Mendoza has promised that if she seeks re-election she will NOT run for mayor. That’s both commendable and astute. Two Democrats are already lusting for her job; Margaret Croke, a former top aide to Pritzker and now a state rep from the Lincoln Park area, and Marcus Evans, a state rep from the South Shore. Attached is a CHART of recent NYC mayor results.Full Article...
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