An infidel viewer can be forgiven for a mistake in discussing the first New York City mayor of Andrew Como.
All of his eight opponents alternate the throwing of verbal daggers on Wednesday evening in Komo, which reached the stage of the debate in 30 Rockefeller Plaza with multiple bags of luggage to go with the polling.
Komo, the former ruler, has led the continued polls in the field of nine guides, and benefited from recognizing his name as a long -term public official in New York and the silence of a floors political family. He resigned from a ruler in 2021 amid allegations of multiple sexual misconduct and investigating these allegations, but he is now trying to return in New York City, where Democratic Mayor Eric Adams nominates his re -election as an independent.
Cuomo put him in the forefront in the democratic introductory elections on Wednesday night in the discussion hosted by NBC New York, Wnju Telemundo and Politico. When Komo avoided a question about the 2021 report of the state prosecutor He accused him of the death of the elderly care house During the Covid-19s, his opponents laughed at him and vibrated.
When Komo was martyred “the state of the Democratic Party” when he was asked to name his greatest regret in his political career, Adrian Adams, head of the New York City Council, passed.
“Do not regret it when it comes to cutting the child’s care?” Adams asked. “We do not regret it slowly walking with personal protection equipment and vaccines in the Covid season to black and brown societies? Really, don’t regret?”
When Komo was asked about the allegations of sexual harassment and responded to attacking his opponents for his call to enter the police, former State Council member Michael Blake turned into the cameras to speak directly to New York women.
Blake said: “Every woman is watching tonight: I have given an opportunity to actually confront with the clear allegations that have been mentioned and ignored.” Komo will later repeat his denial of the allegations, which entered into an investigation led by the State Prosecutor, Leitia James; And I found that Komo had harassed 11 women and was exposed to some of them from unwanted touch and rubbing.
Each candidate took a different group attacking Komo, 67 years old. Recent opinion pollsIs the member of the State Council Zahran Mamdani, the Social Democraticism, who threw Komo that he was purchased and paid by billionaires.
“The difference between me and Andrew Como is that my campaign is not funded by the billionaires who put Donald Trump in the capital,” said Mamdani, 33.
After Komo evaded difficult questions about his differences, Mamdani said that he “suffers from allergies from any accountability or admission of error.”
Como has not retreated, instead he tries to give him well as he was attacking. Mamdani, the smallest candidate on the stage, also received a set of criticism. After declaring confidently, “I am the worst nightmare of Donald Trump,” Komo replied, “Donald Trump was going through Mr. Mamdani like a hot knife through butter.”
“He was 27 minutes in the government. He approved three bills. That’s all he did,” Komo said.
Senator Jessica Ramos got a blow in Mamdani when she was asked about her greatest regret. She said, “I regret not running for the mayor in 2021.”
“I was in the Senate for two years. I have already passed more than ten bills. I thought I needed more experience, but it turned out that you just needed to create good videos,” she said, and it mocks the social media strategy in Mamdani, which prompted his candidacy.
The issues, including the city’s housing and public safety crisis, have occupied a back seat for the hugs, as supervisors are struggling with discussions to control the nine candidates who talk about each other and have to broadcast time before the preliminary elections on June 24.
In addition to Cuomo and Mamdani, who rushed to the political scene of New York City on a progressive platform, the candidates wandered in a position in an unpredictable voting system in the city, which allows voters to choose many candidates and classify their votes. The stage also included the current and previous city’s correspondence, Brad Lander and Sakut Springer; Sens Sens. Ramos and Zellnor Myrie; The Executive Director of the former hedge fund Whitney Tilson.
While the candidates have set their proposals on the main issues facing the city, such as housing and public safety, the quarrels overwhelmed the article.
The latest housing and vacancies survey in the city, which was conducted last year, found that the vacancies for apartments in the city decreased to 1.4 %, The lowest rate since 1968. When it comes to units that cost less than $ 2,200 a month, the vacancies rate is less than 1 %.
While Mamdani, Blake and Ramos pledged to freeze the rent of the stable apartments, which is The home of nearly a million New York residentsTilson, the businessman on the stage, came in this case from a different angle.
“I think we need to drop the rent by 20 % by unleashing the private sector to build more housing,” he said.
Despite the recent encouraging crime data from the city, which showed a Low record 264 The shooting at the city level from January to May, the case was a point of disagreement.
The candidates have presented their plans to combat crime in the metro system, which became a source of concern in front of the New York residents after a series of prominent and heinous violence, including the death of women after the fire was caught last year.
Myrie called for 150 police teams to cars and subway platforms in all hours of the day.
Como presented his first month in office, if he became a mayor. “In the first 30 days, I will take every person without trains and metro stations and get it from the help they need,” he said.
Blake called for 1,000 mental health professionals and streets, which increased the frequency range of police officers to deal with other cases. “The police will indicate that they have not trained to treat mental health,” said Blake, who served in the Obama administration.
