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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight. [/quote]

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning. [/quote]

Yep. Right now Bernie is on the morning shows talking up how great this is, and that the Dems should use his platform to win. I shake my head. I saw a chart that showed that MAGA and Centrist have pretty much stayed steady in their beliefs. But Dems argue they have shift further right. When in reality, the Dems are the one who have shifted so far left.

It will be interesting to see how far left we go before those who voted to make it happen have to live with the consequences. [/quote]

You sound scared.[/quote]

Yep. Most of my friends ranked Lander, Adrianne Adams and Stringer at the top with Mamdani second, and they are excited today. There’s a quote going around about how Boomers refused to relinquish power, so the transition to younger pols with an actual politics behind them is shocking. We see it here day in and day out.[/quote]

I see talk of Lander primarying Schumer.  That would be fantastic.[/quote]

They’re both in my neighborhood, which is of course famous for…20 year olds who are secretly rich and wake up at 11:53 am. Anyway. Three months ago, the good Senator Chuck tried to have an impromptu meet the people moment at the grocery store and was totally stunned when people started snapping at him: “do your job!” He’s an unquestionably intelligent man who has slowly and then faster and faster refused to grapple for power that benefits his constituents, has refused to meet with those constituents (NYPD outside of his doorman extremely secure coop all the time), and otherwise is now a self-regarded untouchable. Lander isn’t a youngster and while he’s just a man, he has integrity and always puts himself on the line. He has mentored people like Shahana Hanif and his office takes calls and constituent concerns seriously.

TLDR - that would be amazing. Dare to dream??[/quote]

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