Posted on 10/17/2025 4:26:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Socialist Zohran Mamdani skirted tough questions and offered few specifics as he smoothly swatted off a barrage of attacks from ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a heated first general mayoral election debate Thursday.
The rat-a-tat verbal brawl between the three contenders – including a zinger-lobbing Curtis Sliwa – from a 30 Rockefeller Center stage made for good TV, but arguably left New Yorkers without an idea how their next mayor would handle the nitty-gritty while governing the nation’s largest city.
The front-runner Democratic candidate Mamdani stayed on his “affordability” message, but could offer few details of how he’d actually put his platform into practice — and dodged straight answers when pressed on some contentious issues.
“Well, Zohran, boy, you have fantasies,” Sliwa, the Republican candidate, said at one point during the two-hour slugfest hosted by NBC 4 New York, Telemundo and POLITICO.
“Never going to come about in terms of funding everything you want. It’s going to be free, free, free. It’s a fantasy. Let’s deal with reality.”
Cuomo, the former governor who’s running as an independent, spared no opportunity to hit Mamdani over his Democratic Socialists of America-backed policies on prostitution and misdemeanors, stance on Israel, past tweets calling the NYPD “racist” and lack of experience.
“He has literally never had a job,” Cuomo charged, adding, “God forbid — a 9/11, a health pandemic” should happen while he’s in office.
But Mamdani, a Queens state assemblyman, appeared at ease on the stage, interlacing his dreamy, ambiguous promises of free buses, universal childcare and freezing the rent with put-downs tying Cuomo to President Trump and billionaires.
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The exchange will stay, all the workers will move to Jersey.
“Because businesses are going to move out of any jurisdiction that he can tax.”
This will be a great opportunity for those businesses to downsize their office space and overhead cost while they move.
“...and can’t say how he’ll pay for socialist proposals in heated NYC mayoral debate”
I thought the standard Commie answer to that was, “With OTHER people’s Money!”
What did I miss? ;)
And NJ is so much better 😃
May I speak to US Senator All-Out Communist, please?
The servers are already in NJ, proving it can call anywhere its home base.
EC
And NJ is so much better 😃
And getting what they deserve.
They’re kapos and need to be referred to as such.
“I think it’s hilarious to hear Cuomo talk about a “healthcare crisis”.”
I found this online:
“President Trump had a Navy hospital ship with the capacity to house 500 to 1,000 patients sent to New York. Unfortunately, virtually no covid patients were sent to the ship by New York government officials. Mayor Bill de Blasio explained “I didn’t think it would be good optics to let Trump be credited as some sort of savior for the ill.’”
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=570006.0
Bunch of modern-day Chaim Rumkowskis.
“businesses are going to move out of any jurisdiction that he can tax.”
Maybe he can deliver on his cheap housing pledge.
WIKI
Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski (February 27, 1877 – August 28, 1944) was the head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland.
Rumkowski accrued much power by transforming the ghetto into an industrial base manufacturing war supplies for the Wehrmacht in the mistaken belief that productivity was the key to Jewish survival beyond the Holocaust. The Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. All remaining prisoners were sent to death camps in the wake of military defeats on the Eastern Front.
As the head of the Judenrat, Rumkowski is remembered for his speech Give Me Your Children, delivered at a time when the Germans demanded his compliance with the deportation of 20,000 children to Chełmno extermination camp. In August 1944, Rumkowski and his family joined the last transport to Auschwitz, and he was murdered there on August 28, 1944, by Jewish Sonderkommando inmates who beat him to death as revenge for his role in the Holocaust. This account of his final moments is confirmed by witness testimonies of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Rumkowski
Not only 5hat but he said something along the lines of “ny city is a city that beleives in international law” McCallum didnt bother to call h8m ou5 on it very strongly either. She shoulda hammered him verbally for saying such an ifnorwn5 antiAmerican thing!
My recollection was that NYC’s hospitals were already contaminated with the coronavirus. The hospital ship was NOT and was meant for non-CV patients, which, surprisingly, still existed. The ship was to allow treatment WITHOUT exposure to the virus.
Cuomo made sure the ship was contaminated, anyway. As you say, it saw very little use.
Cuomo also killed elderly people by packing the virus into senior homes and hoarded ventilators (which were promoted as a treatment for the virus, at the time).
Nice guy, was the Cockroach. Why is he not in jail?
Zohran Mamdani a disciple of Hugo Chávez and wants to follow the failure off the cliff
“Maybe he can deliver on his cheap housing pledge.”
property values will plummet, but so will property tax ...
The muslims in NYC are having trouble housing and feeding all the muslims that are coming in so you can bet he’ll fix that first by robbing the taxpayer to help the freeloading muslims
Exactly. Ma’amdami reminds of Obama. Liberals are swooning over another glib, smiling faker. Everyone outside of NY are awaiting to see how bad he fails.
Mamdani Claims Cuomo Isn’t Qualified to Be Mayor Because He Didn’t Visit a Muslim Mosque
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