New York City Mayor Eric Adams is continuing to resist calls to resign after being indicted on federal corruption charges. In recent weeks, at least seven senior city officials have resigned, leaving the city government in a state of crisis. This comes a year before New Yorkers will vote to pick the city’s next mayor. Adams has vowed to run for reelection, but opponents, including fellow Democrats, are lining up to run against him.
We are joined now by New York Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who has just announced he will join the race. Mamdani is a Ugandan-born Democratic Socialist who was elected to the New York State Assembly four years ago.
He is running on a platform centered on the needs of working-class New Yorkers and easing the cost-of-living crisis. He shares a number of his policy proposals and also discusses his pro-Palestine advocacy in the State Assembly, where earlier this year he introduced the Not on Our Dime Act, which would prevent New York charities from providing financial support for Israeli settlement activity.
They elected a cop as mayor on the heels of 2020 - I shook my head about it at the time, and this is precisely the outcome I expected as an outsider. He thinks he’s above the law because that’s his normal.
More than just a cop, he’s a landlord cop. The thing is no one actually likes him. But he got the support of rich landlords and blue lives asshats who have more combined power than the average NYer
I had the impression it was something like that. Well, maybe folks will decide a Democratic Socialist might be a good improvement. 🤞
Yeah they certainly got what they voted for. If you don’t like force and embezzlement, you really can’t elect a cop.