This year’s mayor’s race has yet been a strange and frustrated exercise. It seems that the democratic introductory elections, which are usually final, such as a two -man race between the candidates who are not guaranteed to win in November: Andrew Como, the former ruler, and Zahran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who served four years in the state association. One of them is only a few years of resign scandal. The other is a contract from the college. The city’s political path is a right to seize. No one feels very confident.
On Thursday evening – days before the start of the early vote – Komo, Mamdani, and five of the nine candidates remaining in the preliminary elections they faced in a televised discussion on the campus of John Jay College, near Columbus Surke. For two hours, a few buildings of sparkling constellations for billionaires, the field discussed the housing crisis and the ability to bear the costs in the city, the police and its impact on crime, the New York relationship with Donald Trump, Israel and Palestine, electronic bicycles, and countless other issues. The candidates, to a large extent, are serious people, and they have serious things that can say about the overlapping crises of the city, although no one on the stage can ignore the modern political demand for Zinger ready for the clip. “The truth is saying, the experience of things, and Andrew Como has experience,” said former financial observer Scott Stinger. “But the vision is important, and you are … you have the vision, and I have made it clear during the campaign.” Stinger turned from his competitors to confront the audience, and added, “The problem is, we need someone who can do the two things.”
After a series of recent ballot boxes showed Mamdani in second place, and she gained on Komo, his opponents began his treatment as a front candidate. Mamdani’s campaign, which even is It is said He had doubts about the time when he started last year, in which the liberals caught fire and leftists from various lines. It has suggested raising taxes on the richest population of New York and companies to pay the price of new public programs, including free buses, and freezing the rent in the city’s organized apartments. “The name is Mamdani, Mamdani,” he said, after Komo made a mistake, and he was increasingly deliberately deliberate with tightening opinion polls in the past few weeks. In the first question in the discussion on Thursday, one of the supervisors, the Spectrum Ny1 host Erol LewisMamdani asked how, with his youth and the relative lack of experience, could assure the residents of New York that he was about to oversee the public budget of one hundred billion dollars and thirty thousand people. “I have never had to resign from shame,” Mamdani said at some point in his answer. “I was never the thirteen women who accused me of credibility of sexual harassment.”
Since entering the race, the activation of Komo, the gas light, and refused to take responsibility for the bad actions that led to its fall four years ago has achieved a rude performance. “Five lawyers in the provinces looked at this,” he said. “Nothing at all did not come.” His succession seems to be that thirteen women have reached an idea of accusing him of sexual harassment, in order to obtain slight or non -personal gains. (As Komo loves to sign, none of the civil lawsuits that were brought against him succeeded.) However, the political skills and the previous authority offered in the past few weeks. He obtained the approvals of many elected officials who have not long passed his resignation, as well as influential black priests, prominent Jewish community leaders, and leaders of many large labor unions in the city. During the discussion of financing education in the city, Komo stormed that the arguments of other candidates are largely and the size of the general group imposed on the state. “The state must pay,” Komo said, on the pretext that if Albani wants to impose an authorization on the city, this must be supported by dollars. “Let’s be realistic.” It was a good answer: New York State must have more money to make sure that the children of the working class city are not transferred to the crowded school rooms. But no one doubts Kumo’s knowledge of government actions. Questions revolve around motivation, consensus, and why should it be trusted after such anarchy is made by the ruler.
Among all the candidates on the stage, Brad Lander, the city’s observer and Burkelin appeared to be progressive. Earlier in the day, TimesWhich has previously announced its intention to break the long practices and not support them in the local elections this year, published a semi -informed fusion, The product of wiping Among the prominent New York residents who conducted it in the paper opinion section. Seven of the fifteen of the respondents-who included a political world and head of conservative banks, the party’s strategy, and the Danny Meyer Restaurant to be Lander the best candidate in this field; No other candidate obtained more than two respondents to support them. “Its record as a collective building and his responsible leadership makes it the best choice in the incomplete democratic field.” In the previous televised debate, it has been rarely rare. On the stage in John Jae, glows from Time “” Praise, he seemed to take himself a little more, as a few shots landed directly on Komo, who was standing on a platform on his right.
Lander said, “Andrew, this is Peter Arbini,” referring to a man sitting in the audience, during a “interrogation” part of the discussion, when each candidate was allowed to raise a direct issue from one discount. Peter Erbini’s father, Norman Arbini died Corona virus disease-19 early on the epidemic. Peter and other members of the Arbeeny family were audio critics of the controversial Cuomo order Elderly care homes Acceptance Corona virus disease-19 Patients who were discharged from hospitals. Lander’s question to Komo: “Will you finally apologize to Peter?” Como looked at the platform, as Lander said, and avoiding eye contact with the audience. He was shining as if he could not believe Rale Lander. Komo said: “Perhaps where I came from Saint Louis, it does not matter the facts, but here they are doing it,” on the pretext that when compared to other states, the nursing home numbers in New York were not “horrific” in a way that is not proportional. “Then he seemed to remember Arrini. Komo said:” Mr. Erbini lost a father. I am very sorry for that. ” The legal case has been rejected.
The fissure in the race is real. It is clear that a handful of candidates hate Como from personal experience, or feel bitter from Mamdani’s need and talent on social media. On Thursday, the candidates and supervisors took a short break in the middle of the road, Como turned his right and approached Adrian Adams, the city council president, and tied her on her back smiling tightly. Komo weaved away and approached Mamdani. The two men shook hands, and Mamdani slipped away. Earlier in the day, I reported that Super Pile Como’s support had prepared an email to the attack used a photo candidate to make Mamdani beard to look darker and Bushier – which Mamdani condemned as inflammatory and Islamovic. Como eventually wandered at the forefront of the theater and spent the rest of the break waving someone in the audience. (It is assumed that it is not arbeeny.)
