Posted on 04/05/2026 3:24:49 PM PDT by Libloather
The head of an influential Big Apple business advocacy group warned that companies are already taking steps to relocate or move jobs elsewhere because of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax-hike crusade.
Steve Fulop, CEO of the Partnership for the City of New York, said many corporations are considering leaving or shifting their workforces to less costly states after it was revealed $900 billion asset manager Apollo Global Management is plotting a second US headquarters in the Sunbelt.
“In the last week, there have been several [major companies] in the Partnership that have said they’re going down the same road [as Apollo], exploring options in Florida and Texas,” Fulop said Sunday on 77 WABC Radio’s “Cats Roundtable.”
“Some of these [firms] … are major New York City brands that have been headquartered here for 100 years. The fact is – they’re leaving,” Fulop told host John Catsimatidis.
Fulop later declined to name the firms seriously weighing abandoning or de-emphasizing jobs in the Big Apple when contacted by The Post.
“I’m not going to get into specific names or speculate on who is down the road of leaving,” Fulop said. “It’s not appropriate to front-run a company announcement, especially when many of these firms have large employee bases in New York.
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My question is: what fraction of those who are now threatening to leave actually voted for him? My guess is a significant fraction.
Or until the other people move to another state.
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A prayer....
Please Lord be merciful to Florida and do not send them here.
We already have enough invasive species like pythons, monitor lizards, iguanas and plenty of other unpleasant creatures like alligators, sharks, huge cockroaches, fire ants, mosquitoes, sharks and vermin.
If we must be smitten, send us locusts instead.
Besides Baltimore, Boston, Camden and Philadelphia need them.
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He doesn’t need a clue. He doesn’t need the rich. He needs votes. And the majority of registered Gotham residents don’t vote. Indeed, that’s been the case there for a LONG time.
Per Wiki, NYC voter turnout - Mayoral elections (year: % of registered voters; # of votes counted)
2025: 39.91%; 2,037,183 (as of Nov 5, 2025)
2021: 23.39%; 1,149,172
2017: 25.52%; 1,166,313
2013: 25.96%; 1,102,400
2009: 28.19%; 1,154,802
2005: 33.34%; 1,315,360
2001: 40.93%; 1,520,443
1997: 40.09%; 1,409,347
1993: 57.50%; 1,898,419
1989: 59.67%; 1,899,845
1985: 41.19%; 1,170,904
1981: 55.67%; 1,305,368
1977: 51.48%; 1,486,536
1973: 50.21%; 1,790,053
1969: 81.21%; 2,458,203
In Seattle, office space has been emptied by business leaving Taxocrat Washington State. The city of Seattle is proposing a tax on empty office spaces.
There needs to be a criminal investigation into the taxes being stolen by Taxocrat fraud.
gonna be hard for jamie to abandon that brand new $4 billion tower he just built in nyc a few months ago:
“The new JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in NYC, which opened in late 2025, cost approximately $3 billion to $4 billion to construct. The 60-story, 1,388-foot, 2.5 million-square-foot skyscraper is a “net-zero” operations building designed to house 10,000 employees.”
> Madmani doesn’t have clue. <
You are assuming the complete destruction of the US financial center ISN’T the goal. If it was, what would he be doing differently?
EC
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