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NYC Dem Mayoral Candidates Ain’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be…or Just Cracked? – HotAir

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NYC Dem Mayoral Candidates Ain't All They're Cracked Up to Be...or Just Cracked? – HotAir

What an interesting couple of days in the Big Wormy Apple as far as this Democratic mayoral primary cycle is going.

New York City is known for its mostly colorful, but not necessarily competent, politicians. Honestly, the jokers they have running against each other, vying for the Dem nomination – in effect, to most probably be the mayor – are a rogue’s gallery of God awful.





There’s disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who, I guess, by virtue of his name recognition and easy Latin charm, believed he was a shoo-in and has expended no energy working towards his coronation.

I guess he’s forgotten about his part in killing some fifteen thousand or so grannies, grampas, and the elderly in nursing homes, etc. during COVID. Forcing those helpless souls to die unimaginably cruel, horrifically frightening, and lonely deaths, besides being a sleezy lounge lizardy boss while he occupied the governor’s mansion in Albany.

But there are certain truisms that work only for Democrats, because they are (D)ifferent.

One is ignoring bodies and wrongdoing…

Although the poster boy of Democrat leaders is always unaccountable, Andrew Cuomo is not alone. Instead, he’s the latest link in a Democratic chain. 

Democrats’ refusal to hold their leaders accountable creates a “moral hazard” for the party, insulates their leaders from failures, and encourages more of the same poor behavior. 

The Department of Justice is investigating Andrew Cuomo for falsely testifying to Congress regarding his actions as New York governor during the Covid pandemic.  Specifically, the DOJ is examining Cuomo’s explanation to the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about his role in issuing a directive, the July 6 Report, that prohibited nursing homes from denying admittance to Covid-positive patients. Later, he tried to revise reported nursing home deaths.





…and the other is subpoenas.

Whatever his slimy, unctuous faults, Cuomo has a pretty good lead right now simply by virtue of being Cuomo.

The guy he has a lead over, Zohran Mamdani, a relatively new American citizen with radical Islamic tendencies, lots of Jew-hate stored up, and a purely socialist agenda, has been closing fast. The young man has a face made for the crowd who wear Che t-shirts and fashions chill-axe art posters of Barack Obama. As one activist said, he’s ‘a cutie-patootie.’ That’s all it’s taking for her to vote for him.

It doesn’t hurt that he’s talking immediate rent freezes, turning the subways into homeless shelters, and a tax hike on those darn city millionaires, to name a few of his more ‘living in a Soviet collective’ ideas.

Cute as he is, Mr Mamdani’s agenda is so off-the-charts radical that even the Old Grey Lady came out against him in their editorial today, in words that were kind of hypocritical. Because at one time or another, they’ve gushed all over New York politicians who have wanted to do many of these same things.

I’m not quite sure what it is about Mamdani – maybe the blatant Jew-hate? -that spooked the paper. But whatever it was, they chewed him up, spit him out, basically called him a neophyte ‘performance artist,’ and endorsed Cuomo.





…The polls indicate that two candidates have emerged as the frontrunners: Andrew Cuomo, a former governor and federal housing secretary, and Zohran Mamdani, a state legislator who represents a Queens district. Mr. Mamdani, a charismatic 33-year-old, is running a joyful campaign full of viral videos in which he talks with voters. He offers the kind of fresh political style for which many people are hungry during the angry era of President Trump.

Unfortunately, Mr. Mamdani is running on an agenda uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges. He is a democratic socialist who too often ignores the unavoidable trade-offs of governance. He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply and make it harder for younger New Yorkers and new arrivals to afford housing. He wants the government to operate grocery stores, as if customer service and retail sales were strengths of the public sector. He minimizes the importance of policing.

Most worrisome, he shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade, even though its costs have fallen hardest on the city’s working-class and poor residents. Mr. Mamdani, who has called Mr. de Blasio the best New York mayor of his lifetime, offers an agenda that remains alluring among elite progressives but has proved damaging to city life.

Mr. Mamdani would also bring less relevant experience than perhaps any mayor in New York history. He has never run a government department or private organization of any size. As a state legislator, he has struggled to execute his own agenda. A telling example came last year. Given an opportunity to expand a pilot program offering free bus rides, one of his signature issues, he instead engaged in a performative protest that doomed the policy, New York magazine reported. He seems to lack the political savvy and instinct for compromise that has made Senator Bernie Sanders, his fellow democratic socialist, an effective legislator.





They didn’t mince words nor moderate their disdain.

…We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots…

Well…ouch. If any of Mamdani voters read or gave a rip about the NYT, which I don’t believe they do.

The one person who came out in the op-ed sounding like a rational choice was the meek, mild-mannered city comptroller, Brad Lander. He’s reported to be the kind of unflashy, steady guy who does his job well and never causes a fuss.

Which is why Lander’s routinely held in high regard professionally and little regard in the public eye.

…An alternative to the two front-runners is Brad Lander, the city’s comptroller, or chief financial officer. Among the 15 New York leaders who participated in the Choice panel, Mr. Lander was the clear preference. Seven named him as their first choice. No other candidate received more than two votes. Iwen Chu, a former state senator from Brooklyn, said Mr. Lander “brings a rare combination of integrity, inclusiveness and a deep understanding of how our city government should work.”

Mr. Lander is another Democrat who adopted dubious ideas, such as cuts to policing, during the party’s leftward shift of the late 2010s and early 2020s. He has since moderated, though, which demonstrates a welcome ability to learn from experience. He has also proved to be an effective manager of the city’s sprawling budget office. His mayoral agenda includes the construction of 500,000 housing units, expanded pre-K and faster subway service. Mr. Lander exudes competence if not inspiration.





Sadly, Mr Lander is trailing the two leaders badly, which is probably why he lost his mind today.

‘Why, Beege,’ you ask. ‘Whatever are you talking about?’

*sigh*

All I can think is a campaign aide told him to ‘spice it up,’ and all Lander heard was ‘ICE.’

Off he went to the courthouse like a jacked-up Padillosaurus.

This must be the stunt du jour for pathetic nobodies.

My man Sammy Antar, who’s done all that terrific legwork on Tish James’ mortgages, has the goods on Lander, too.

…This is a screenshot from a video Lander himself posted on X. 

He’s not denying it—he’s advertising it. 

That’s not protest. That’s obstruction of justice—and a campaign stunt in violation of federal law. 

#LanderInHandcuffs

#ObstructionInOffice

#StuntPolitics

Holy SMOKES.

What pathetic clowns.

SAVE MY STUPID HUSBAND





Get out of New York City if you possibly can.

It’s the only way to be sure.

You can’t get away from them.

 







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