There Are No Perfect Choices in the New York Mayoral Race
This year’s mayor’s race has been a strange and annoying exercise so far. The democratic primary, usually certain, seems to be a two -person race among candidates who are not guaranteed in November: former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who served in the state council for four years. First, only a few years of resignation in the middle of a tremendous sexual harassment and power abuse scandal. The other was removed from university for ten years. The political orbit of the city is really ready to grab. And nobody’s confident about it.
Thursday evening – two days before the early vote – Cuomo, Mamdani and five of the nine remaining nine candidates in a discussion on TV on the campus of John Jay College near Columbus Circle. For two hours, just a few blocks away from billionaires drenched towers, discussing the city’s housing and purchasing crisis, policing and crime, New York’s Donald Trump, Israel and Palestine, e-bikes and numerous issues. In general, candidates are serious people who have serious things to say about the overlapping crises of the city, but no one on the stage can ignore the modern political demand for the clip ready -made zingers. Former controller Scott Stringer surrendered the most real voice canned line of the night and said, “Truth can be said, experience issues and Andrew Cuomo’s experience.” “But the vision is important and mamdani … You have a vision and you have expressed it during the campaign.” Stringer returned from his opponents to confront the audience and added, “We need someone who can do both,” he added.
Recently, after the surveys showed Mamdani in the second place and won in Cuomo, his rivals began to treat him as a front runner. Mamdani’s campaign, even reported There were doubts about when it started last year, he burned fire with determined liberals and leftists of various lines. He proposed to collect taxes for the richest New York residents and companies to pay for new public programs, including free buses and to freeze the rent in the apartments organized by the city. “The name is Mamdani, Mamdani,” he said on Thursday, after Cuomo’s incorrectly emerged, as the surveys are tight as the last few weeks are tight. In the first question in the debate on Thursday, one of the moderators, Spectrum NY1 presenter Errol Louis asked Mamdani how he fits a hundred billion dollar public budget and three hundred thousand public labor force with his youth and lack of relative experience. “I never had to resign in shame,” Mamdani said at some point by turning the question down to his opponent. “I have never hunted thirteen women who accuse me of sexual harassment.”
Since he entered the race, Cuomo’s avoidance, gas lighting, and the responsibility of the bad actions that led to the collapse of the collapse four years ago, has made a brazen performance for a brazen performance. “Five regional lawyers looked at it, Cu Cuomo said, repeating a practical line. “Absolutely nothing came.” His contention seems to have revealed the idea of the thirteen women independently accusing him of sexual harassment, for very little personal gain. (As Cuomo liked to point out, none of the civil cases against him were successful. Many elected officials who were not uneasy to resign for a long time ago, as well as effective black priests, leading the leading Jewish community leaders and the leaders of the city’s major labor trade unions. During the discussion of the educational financing in the city, Cuomo left to say that the arguments of other candidates on a public-school class border imposed by the new and costly state were wrong. “The state has to pay, Cu Cuomo said, if Albany wants to put a task in the city, arguing that it should be supported by the dollar. “Let’s be realistic.” This was a good answer: New York Province should cough more money to ensure that working -class city children are not referred to packaged schools. But no one doubts Cuomo’s knowledge of the government’s functioning. The questions are about motives, compositions and why the governorship should be trusted after such a mess.
Brad Lander, the city supervisor and Brooklyn progressive among all candidates on the stage, seemed happiest to be there. EARLY HOURS OF DAY TimesHe explained his intention to break the application that has been going on for a long time and has not approved in the local elections this year, published Lander’s semi -approval, The product of a questionnaire The important New York people made by the view section of the article. Seven of the fifteen participants of a political scientist, a conservative thought -tank president, a party strategist and restaurant Danny Meyer are the best candidate in the field; No other candidate received more than two participants to support them. The editors of the Vision section wrote, “as an consensus building, and the approach responsible for leadership makes it the best choice in a flawed democratic field,” he wrote. Lander was lost in the previous television debate. John shines on stage at Jay Times’ The praise took a few direct shots at Cuomo, who stands on a podium to his right, and took a little more steps to himself.
“Andrew, this Peter Arbeeny, Land Lander said, when each candidate was allowed to ask a direct question of an opponent, pointing to a man sitting on the audience during the“ cross examination ”part of the discussion. Peter Arbeeny’s father Norman Arbeeny is dead Kovid-19 at the beginning of the pandema. Peter and other members of the Arbeeny family were vocal critics of the controversial order that forced Cuomo to accept care homes. Kovid-19 was discharged from hospitals. Lander’s question to Cuomo: “Will you finally apologize to Peter?” Cuomo looked at his podium, as Lander said, and avoided eye contact with the audience. He could not believe in Lander’s bile and grimaced. “Maybe where you came to Louis, the facts don’t matter, but they’re doing here, Cu Cuomo said, compared to other states, the number of New York’s Pandemic Nursing House was not disproportionately“ terrible. Then he seemed to remember Arbeeny. “Mr. Arbeeny lost a father. I am very, very sorry for that, Cu Cuomo said. “He brought a legal lawsuit against the state. The legal lawsuit was rejected.”
Achrimonic in the race. A group of candidates do not clearly like Cuomo from personal experiences, or they feel painful about Mamdani’s flexibility and ability for social media. When the candidates and moderators took a short break on Thursday, Cuomo returned to the right and approached Adrienne Adams, the Mayor of the Municipal Assembly, and stroked him tightly while he was smiling. Cuomo turned and approached Mamdani. Two men shook hands and shifted with mamdani scary. A super in the early hours of the day Pac Supporting Cuomo, Mamdani had prepared an attack mail using a photographic filter to make his beard darker and busy – Mamdani’s inflammatory and Islamophobically condemn. Cuomo finally went in front of the stage and spent the rest of the break waving to someone in the audience. (Probably not Arbeeny.)
