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Knocking on Doors for Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Brigade
The Free Press ^ | 6/12/26 | Josh Code

Posted on 06/12/2026 10:22:57 AM PDT by spintreebob

A volunteer’s ‘SOCIALISM’ bracelet was a hint that New York City’s public turnout campaign for rent-control hearings might not live up to its own rules of neutrality.

Against my better judgment and the advice of Oscar Wilde, I let socialism in New York City take up another one of my evenings. This time, I was curious to see a new, taxpayer-funded canvassing machine in action before this month’s crucial decision on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to freeze the rent on the apartments where about 2.4 million New Yorkers live.

Six weeks ago, Mamdani announced the launch of Organize NYC, which he said “will mobilize New Yorkers to make sure they know they have a voice in that decision—and how to use it—because government only works when it answers to the people it serves.” The city agency in charge of Organize NYC is led by Tascha Van Auken, who built Mamdani’s campaign organizing operation.

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When elections are close, the effective ground game is the difference. New York's ground game seems a replica of Chicago's ground game of 65 years ago.
1 posted on 06/12/2026 10:22:57 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

Phase II of the Rent-Freeze Brigade - “There is living space for thirteen families in this one house!!”

2 posted on 06/12/2026 10:28:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Moving out of NYC!


3 posted on 06/12/2026 10:29:28 AM PDT by FreedBird (A)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Phase II of the Rent-Freeze Brigade - “There is living space for thirteen families in this one house!!”

Isn’t that most of NYC now ,LOL


4 posted on 06/12/2026 10:41:57 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Guess this would depend on what they are considering as “one house”. Sounds pretty suspicious to me. How many families are living in Mamdani’s house?


5 posted on 06/12/2026 10:51:36 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: butlerweave

Guess this would depend on what they are considering as “one house”. Sounds pretty suspicious to me. How many families are living in Mamdani’s house?


6 posted on 06/12/2026 10:52:08 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: spintreebob

The photo of that Josh Code guy gives me a better understanding of why liberals need tampons in men’s rooms.


7 posted on 06/12/2026 10:52:57 AM PDT by boycott
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What could possibly go wrong... after all, the Soviets had 70 years to get all of the kinks out of socialism and it continues to work so well in many countries. Just look at how well socialism is working in the USSR, Cambodia, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and a host of other... what??? Well never mind all of that... we’ll get it right this time. We are smarter and more committed to the revolution! Long live tyranny! Long live the police state! Long live poverty!


8 posted on 06/12/2026 10:55:54 AM PDT by BullwinkleMoose
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To: oldtech

I watch a video years of a guy giving a tour of what was an apartment that was split into like 5 apartments ,LOL


9 posted on 06/12/2026 10:57:25 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

My first thought.


10 posted on 06/12/2026 11:17:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: oldtech
Guess this would depend on what they are considering as “one house”. Sounds pretty suspicious to me. How many families are living in Mamdani’s house?

There will be "waivers" and special dispensations for the "correct people."

Waivers for the "experts," the people who dream up and implement this Horsepucky.

11 posted on 06/12/2026 11:27:17 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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Socialism something you keep doing over and over and it still fails everytime.


12 posted on 06/12/2026 11:32:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: spintreebob
New York's ground game seems a replica of Chicago's ground game of 65 years ago.

Its its all paid for by taxpayers, through budget bloat and obscure social-justice and DEI "initiatives."

13 posted on 06/12/2026 11:47:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: FreedBird

I did the same thing moving out of Portland when they went full on Communist 10 years ago.


14 posted on 06/12/2026 12:02:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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The only place in the world it has ever worked is in Israel on their kibbutz system.
Of course it helped that there was nothing there in ‘48 and being constantly shot at keeps you focused on real issues.


15 posted on 06/12/2026 12:08:34 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Yes many things changes other things.


16 posted on 06/12/2026 12:20:14 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Zathras

Yes it did work. However, not everyone was cut out to work in one. I believe Bernie Sanders was expelled from his.


17 posted on 06/12/2026 12:55:26 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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