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Florida is taking its rivalry with New York straight to Times Square.
X ^ | 08/10/2026 | Fox News on X

Posted on 08/10/2026 11:15:38 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

Florida is taking its rivalry with New York straight to Times Square.

A massive new billboard in the heart of Manhattan has a message for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: “Thanks for the jobs!”

The Florida Chamber of Commerce named Mamdani its “Economic Developer of the Year,” saying New York’s progressive tax policies are helping push businesses, wealth and residents toward the Sunshine State.

The Chamber says the campaign is about more than a little trolling — it’s meant to make a broader case for lower taxes and free enterprise as Florida continues to attract people and businesses from high-tax states.

And they picked one of New York City’s busiest corners to make sure the message gets noticed.


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To: SmokingJoe

Those were conservatives from upstate, not democrats from the city.


21 posted on 08/11/2026 6:26:51 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: sgt_lau

Totally agree with you.


22 posted on 08/11/2026 6:41:02 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Included plenty of conservatives from NYC.
Lived in NYC for 20 years, plenty of conservatives there, albeit outnumbered by liberals.
Right now it don't make too much sense for conservatives to continue to live in NYC.
23 posted on 08/11/2026 7:36:32 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: jeffersondem
Yup.
Plus DeSantis won by the skin of his teeth for his first term, but then won by nearly 20% for his second term.
The inflows are not voting Democrat.
Florida used to be a swing state (remember Bush vs Gore 2020?). Its deep red now.
24 posted on 08/11/2026 7:42:19 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Ditto for Gavin Newsom in California - driving businesses and productive, taxpaying citizens to Florida and Texas, including Elon Musk.

He was U-Haul's Salesman of the Year:

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25 posted on 08/11/2026 8:08:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: SmokingJoe

In terms of registered voters Florida has never been more Republican they outnumber Democrats by well over a million and prior to DeSantis becoming Governor, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a few hundred thousand


26 posted on 08/11/2026 8:15:50 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: SmokingJoe
Kind of like...


27 posted on 08/11/2026 8:17:24 AM PDT by Antoninus (Confusion and disorder to the Left.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

exactly, FL and it’s leaders are just setting themselves up for big problems. I experienced it in another place I lived and you can see it happening many places since the covid dispersement of people’s and other similar things, like Mamdani.


28 posted on 08/11/2026 9:36:17 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: sgt_lau

They are already there. Sleeper cells waiting. They have to go back to their shitholes.


29 posted on 08/11/2026 10:11:07 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: sgt_lau
Amen Brother.

Well said.

30 posted on 08/11/2026 10:25:00 AM PDT by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: b4me

Ummmmm WRONG.


31 posted on 08/11/2026 11:19:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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