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NYC biz leaders left shaking over prospect of Zohran Mamdani mayoral win: ‘It would be disastrous’

https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/us-news/nyc-biz-leaders-left-shaking-over-prospect-of-zohran-mamdani-mayoral-win-it-would-be-disastrous/


2 posted on 06/24/2025 2:45:18 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather
The NY Post editorial board can have their columnists write all they want about this latest impending disaster in NYC, but it's the editorial board that is front and center for blame because four years ago they endorsed the current failed mayor, Eric Adams, over Curtis Sliwa.
From their Oct. 21, 2021 endorsement:

With all due respect to GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams remains our choice for mayor. He’s simply far better suited to do what they both agree is Job No. 1: Get on top of the crime and public disorder plaguing New York.

He’s also better equipped to lead the fightback against the other issues afflicting this great city post-pandemic: Get businesses reopened, get commuters and tourists back . . . and keep them back.

Part of his advantage is simply that he’s a Democrat and, yes, a black man and former cop with a strong record of demanding police reform. That (and his years as a state senator) makes him far more able to wrestle the City Council and Legislature into repealing or repairing the no-bail madness and other recent laws that make crime-fighting so much harder.

More, he represents the promise of dragging the entire local Democratic Party back to sanity. He’s been polite in his disagreements with the AOC/de Blasio wing — but crucially definitive not just on crime but also on the city’s need to keep its high-end taxpayers and to nurture businesses large and small.

Sliwa’s decades of volunteer service to the city command respect: He plainly loves this town, and his large heart is in the right place.

But it’s easy for a Republican to be tough on crime: Adams faced down the left on the issue in the Democratic primary and beat it — proving to the whole party that “their” voters demand an end to the bloodshed, fear and chaos.

He offers sanity on other fronts, too: truly supporting charter schools, for one, as well as preserving and expanding today’s Gifted & Talented programs in the regular public system.

Everything the NY Post editorial board said would happen with Adams went the opposite way. Now they're panicking that it's really going to get bad meaning it's going to get bad for them personally. Gee, no kidding.
11 posted on 06/24/2025 3:58:09 AM PDT by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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To: Libloather; Alex Murphy; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; ealgeone; Elsie; Gamecock; HossB86; ...

Election fraud is likely to play a big role in this election.

Prayers up!

It’s not a matter now if NYC *deserves* it. There are many there who don’t and oppose this. The bigger concern it that it sets a very dangerous step in the muslim takeover of the US.

stars&stripes forever, courtesy ping for your consideration.


13 posted on 06/24/2025 4:43:10 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Libloather

Wall Street already has a backup trading center up and running in Dallas. All they have to do is flip the switch, and presto, no more Wall Street in NYC. Just think of all those taxes flying out the window.


29 posted on 06/24/2025 8:10:49 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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