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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an anti-Mamdani person (and likely the one who has posted the most) who has repeatedly stated what my major beefs are:
Lack of experience in government and/or leading a large organization
Rent freezes are an awful idea that will lead to less affordable housing and are not fair to owners who are dealing with inflation
City run supermarkets are an awful idea - the city does not know how to run supermarkets and they are a low margin business that do best with scale.

[b]And in our stupid argument about NYC street cred I named a low budget out of the way bodega down the street from your allegedly multi-million dollar loft so don't say I only cite tourist traps. [/b]You probably have your own table at Locanda Verde, where the obnoxious pretentious llive.

So stop with your ignorant garbage where you cherry pick posts and ignore the majority of them. And stop claiming to be a more legit New Yorker than the rest of us.

And perhaps you should leave your bubble and meet more people because there are a lot of us out there who don't like Mamdani for the reasons cited.

It is not a sign of defeat to admit the other side is making reasonable points and that your side has weakness. I have admitted that I appreciate that Mamdani is making some effort to reach out to the other side. And that he seems to want to tackle early childhood education (I think every candidate said that, but I will still give credit). Are you capable of doing the same? Or are you just going to continue to cherry pick and be rude and childish.

I don't know why I bother.[/quote]

Huh? 🤔 I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t recall anything about a ‘low budget’ tribeca bodega - what one do you mean?- nor do I live in a tribeca loft. You are probably engaging with different people, because there are multiple people who support Mamdani. Not sure why you’re flipping out here or why you’d mention a ‘low budget’ bodega. Huh? Btw, hot tip to you. No one calls them ‘low budget bodegas’ - that’s redundant. And no one knows the name of their local bodega, never mind ones in a neighborhood they claim to not live in. ;)

In any event, these are some valid issues you present but I don’t agree with them.

Grocery stores. People are trying to make much more of this than reality. It is one store per borough which is nothing, and in food deserts. Mamdani has also already said that his idea is just for a small pilot program. No reason to get hysterical and if people like the Gristedes guy are flipping out over it, then they can certainly come to the table and try to work with Mamdani. It’s not like Gristedes has opened stores in these areas. And let’s be real, Gristedes is struggling for other reasons. He’s run a business that can’t keep up with the other players for awhile now. Nothing to do with Mamdani but he can pretend he’s leaving because of him to save face, I guess. 
I live in an ok, not super wealthy, nabe in NYC and there are 4 grocery store chains within 3 blocks of me. Plus two CVS. Yet when I go to certain areas of NYC, it’s a wasteland and people shop at bodegas. Is trying to fix that so awful?

Re rent freezes. I don’t totally love that idea either but when you dig into it, it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Adams allowed multiple rent increases under his tenure (made sense, prices went up) so holding rents for a period of time now is not so crazy. LL are eligible for 50k subsidies for repairs and upgrades (which allows them to raise rent in certain cases), and I’ll note that many of these poor landlord who say they can’t afford rent increases were able to donate millions to Cuomo’s campaign. ?! Housing is a huge issue that must be solved, and all those Republican types who were in bed with RE/business only made the situation more dire. I fear Cuomo is beholden to these same interests. Why would we want that again?

Lack of experience. That’s a huge issue of course but the other choices are Adams who is already in bed with Trump and who is stupidly corrupt. And Cuomo who seems to be aligned with big business (not awful but not what we need in this moment of time). Wealthy NYers are not going to leave NYC even though they have threatened it over and over, and the business issues that were mentioned above (by you?) have little to do with the Mayor and much more to do with the way work has changed since Covid. Trying to claim ‘publishing houses’ are leaving NYC because of the mayor is a laughable argument, and is either being made in total ignorance or purposeful misrepresentation.

So who do you plan to vote for and why? [/quote]

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