RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.frontpagemag.com/anti-israel-socialist-wins-new-york-citys-democratic-mayoral-primary/

New York City, the city I have lived in and loved for many years, is on the verge of a catastrophe. Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist and Israel hater, is the presumed winner of the June 24th Democratic primary for the position of New York City mayor. Normally, the winner of the Democratic primary wins the general election in this overwhelmingly Democratic city, which means that this socialist, 33-year-old state assemblyman is poised to become New York City’s next mayor. The odds of the unpopular current mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent, or the GOP nominee and founder of the Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa beating Mr. Mamdani in the general election are slim to none.

Zohran Mamdani’s platform is downright scary.

Crime will run rampant in the city under the leadership of Zohran Mamdani, who is anti-police. In the past, he has advocated defunding the police. His current platform uses euphemisms that would amount to essentially the same thing by prioritizing the creation of a new so-called “Department of Community Safety,” which will take “a public health approach to safety” instead of relying primarily on law enforcement officers to combat crime. Mr. Mamdani will have an enthusiastic ally, Alvin Bragg, the pro-criminal Manhattan District Attorney who won the primary vote for DA.

The city’s economy will crash under the leadership of this Marxist who touts city-owned grocery stores, fare-free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze, and other government handouts. All this largesse will come at the expense of already overburdened, successful taxpayers who are the engine of any vital economy, many of whom will leave the city behind for greener pastures.

As Margaret Thatcher wisely said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”

Jews in New York City will be even less safe than they are now with a mayor who sides with antisemites in refusing to acknowledge that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state. Zohran Mamdani also refused to condemn the antisemitic phrase “globalize the intifada” when given a chance. He claimed that the phrase spoke to “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights,” and he outrageously compared it to how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis has been described.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/theres-no-hope-for-the-center-right-in-new-yorks-mayoral-race

Many center-right commentators argue that the 2025 New York City Democratic primary candidates have failed to confront the city’s core challenges: excessive spending, high taxes, and heavy regulation. They contend that residents receive inadequate services in return and that the city, rather than fostering economic competitiveness, relies on its fading prestige to retain affluent residents and major firms in finance and professional services. This view has more influence online and on podcasts than among the electorate. Investor and philanthropist Whitney Tilson, who has made many of these arguments, is polling at 1 percent in the primary.

The center-right’s failure to gain traction can be explained, in part, by the coalitions behind the two leading candidates. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has assembled a base made up of groups largely content with the status quo and looking to him to preserve it. His principal challenger, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, draws support from those dissatisfied with the current system—but who see the solution as more public spending and higher taxes.

A recent analysis by local political commentator Michael Lange demonstrates how this situation materialized. Lange divides New York City’s State Assembly districts into seven categories, ranking them from most favorable to Mamdani to most favorable to Cuomo.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-citys-highly-dubious-mayoral-race/

I’ve seen widely loathed radicals win mayoral races in Chicago and Los Angeles in dubious ways. The LA race that gave the city Mayor Karen Bass had a whole lot of late-arriving ballots show up just in time twice.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t believe that election was legitimate. I don’t believe this one in New York City, my two hometowns, was either.

Yes, ranked choice voting was designed to produce victories for fringe radicals. And yes, the media showered Zohran Mamdani with uncritical praise. Finally, putting up Cuomo, a widely hated figure, as the unifying anti-Zohran figure was the worst possible choice imaginable.

Sure.

But the polls I’ve seen showed Cuomo winning women, voters over 50, and black and Latino voters, and working class voters, while Mamdani performed well only with white young college educated voters.

NYC’s demographics have not tilted so dramatically that white hipsters are not a decided majority.

So two things might have happened here

1. The polls were wrong. It’s happened before.

2. The turnout for the Columbia for Hamas crowd might have been really high and really low for everyone else.

And those are the legitimate things. I don’t need to bother spelling out the illegitimate ones.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/mayoral-election-first-round-results-cuomo-mamdani/

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.

With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.

https://www.aol.com/alvin-bragg-manhattan-prosecutor-took-011702400.html

 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who oversaw the historic hush-money case against President Donald Trump, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary as he seeks reelection.

Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins — a litigator, law professor and former Bronx assistant district attorney — to advance to November’s general election. About 70% of registered Manhattan voters are Democrats.

The first-term incumbent will face Republican Maud Maron, who was a public defender for decades and previously ran for Congress and NYC’s City Council as a Democrat.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pro-hamas-group-invests-100k-in-muslim-mayoral-candidate/

Forget the Ground Zero mosque, New York City may end up with a ‘Ground Zero’ mayor, a Muslim socialist who hates America and Israel.

And you’ll never guess who’s backing him.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the anti-Israel group whose leader said he was “happy” about Oct. 7, is quietly funding socialist Zohran Mamdani’s bid for New York City mayor.

The Unity & Justice Fund, which CAIR formed last year to expand its political influence, has contributed $100,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, the largest PAC supporting Mamdani, according to campaign records. The money was split between a $25,000 gift on May 30 and a $75,000 donation on June 16.

Unity and Justice, by the way, is a fairly typical Muslim Brotherhood name. The Egyptian Brotherhood Party was the Freedom and Justice Party. It’s the Justice and Development Party in Morocco and the Justice and Construction Party in Libya.

The common theme here is ‘Justice’ which within the Islamic framework means the supremacy of Islamic law.

And CAIR has Muslim Brotherhood roots.

The brand outside may be “lower costs” but the brand inside is ‘justice’ or Sharia law.

https://www.thefp.com/p/socialist-mayor-new-york-zohran-mamdani?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Zohran Mamdani vows to spend billions subsidizing buses, housing, and grocery stores. He says he’ll arrest the Israeli PM if he ever steps foot in NYC. And he’s surging in the polls.

Unless you follow New York politics like a hawk, chances are you’ve never heard of Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The 33-year-old socialist is one of the youngest candidates to ever seek the mayorship of New York City. If he wins, he wants to turn the Big Apple into a Havana on the Hudson with free buses, government-run grocery stores, and no more rent hikes for millions.

“It is socialism that we are fighting for,” he told an online audience in 2021.

In a city where 61 percent of residents say they’re struggling to meet their basic needs, Mamdani is gaining traction by vowing to “lower the cost of living” in New York City. His housing plan, one of his ideas on how to make New York more affordable, costs $100 billion, only slightly less than the entire size of this year’s city budget. That’s on top of the $7 billion his other agenda items would cost, including $800 million for free buses, $1.1 billion to build a new Department of Community Safety, and $5 billion funding free childcare for all kids ages 6 weeks to 5 years.

Mamdani is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that advocates abolishing prisons, granting voting rights to some “noncitizens,” ending “Israeli apartheid,” and establishing “a democratic secular state, from the river to the sea.” He has even said he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister ever stepped foot in New York to prove “our values are in line with international law.”

Mamdani has also attended rallies held by Within Our Lifetime, a radical anti-Israel group that has been denounced by other progressives, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for protesting an exhibit dedicated to victims of October 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead. As the group reportedly chanted “kill another Zionist now” outside the exhibit, survivors inside gave testimony about the horror.

When asked twice to clarify his relationship to the group, the Mamdani campaign did not provide comment to The Free Press.

Six years ago, Mamdani was a total unknown, working as a foreclosure prevention counselor for Chhaya, a nonprofit focused on the “well-being of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities in New York City.” That year, only one year after moving to Astoria, Queens, from the Upper West Side, he decided to run in the 2020 election for his new neighborhood’s seat in the New York State Assembly.