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| DATE | 2025-11-01 |
| FROM | mayer ilovitz
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Jewish] Satmar for Mamdani -
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and yet today I encountered 2 people who has already voted for sliwa and
the other intending to vote for him 'on principle'.
I told them we are at the point where principle needs to be put aside (
I too would have preferred to vote for sliwa, but pulled cuomo )
and vote realpolitik.
On 11/1/2025 11:01 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 11/1/25 10:58 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> On 10/29/25 10:31 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>> https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-872118
>>>
>>> This is not good for the Satmar.
>> Michael Goodwin: A Zohran Mamdani mayoralty would mean a long, sour
>> decline for NYC
>> Michael Goodwin
>> 7–9 minutes
>>
>> As a young reporter at The New York Times, I had the good fortune of
>> working with an experienced political editor named Sheldon Binn.
>>
>> A wounded veteran of World War II, he explained the simple yardstick he
>> used to judge politicians.
>>
>> “The only thing I ask is that they don’t make things worse,” I recall
>> him saying.
>>
>> “That’s the best you can hope for.”
>>
>> As a wide-eyed idealist, I found his standard shockingly low and cynical.
>>
>> But these days, Binn’s rule makes more sense to me than ever.
>>
>> Exhibit A is the New York mayoral race, where the Democrats’ nominee,
>> Zohran Mamdani, is pushing a sweepingly radical agenda.
>>
>> If voters are foolish enough to elect him Tuesday, his tenure wouldn’t
>> just make things slightly worse.
>>
>> His policies would inflict major damage in myriad ways, from declining
>> public safety to out-of-control spending.
>>
>> Schools would be further dumbed down and his pledge to hike taxes would
>> drive away businesses, families and jobs.
>>
>> His antisemitic attacks on Israel make him unfit to lead the Jewish
>> capital of America.
>>
>> Mamdani also vows to close Rikers Island, with no place to put the 7,000
>> inmates.
>>
>> The result would be a rapid decline in the quality of life for the
>> city’s remaining residents, workers and visitors.
>>
>> And not just for a short time.
>>
>> Gotham’s history is chock full of lessons on how the actions of a mayor,
>> good or bad, can have an outsized impact for years and even decades
>> beyond his tenure.
>>
>> In addition to actual policies, a mayor helps shape the broader civic
>> culture, including the role of nonprofits and private philanthropy.
>>
>> In Mamdani’s case, a long, sour decline is guaranteed because his
>> promise of free this and free that, combined with an expansion of
>> government control over private housing and some supermarkets, would
>> require punishingly higher taxes.
>> Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio touching his nose while speaking at an
>> event.
>> Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio attends the COVID-19 Five Year
>> Remembrance event. Paul Martinka
>>
>> His agenda is a carbon copy of failed socialist governments around the
>> world and throughout history.
>>
>> Cuba and Venezuela are two clear and close examples: Huge portions of
>> their populations have fled to other countries, and they didn’t run to
>> nearby socialist outposts.
>>
>> They voted with their feet by aiming for New York and other cities in
>> America.
>>
>> If socialism is good and capitalism is evil, why is it that nobody,
>> including Trump-hating celebrities, quits America to live in Cuba or
>> Venezuela?
>>
>> That dynamic gets to the heart of why I am voting for former Gov. Andrew
>> Cuomo and why it is essential that Mamdani and his snake oil never sets
>> foot in City Hall.
>>
>> Cuomo is far from perfect, but under the Binn test, the fact that he
>> would do less harm makes him the right choice.
>>
>> The damage the untested 34-year-old Mamdani would do would not be easily
>> corrected, even if he were booted after a single term.
>> Failed experiment
>>
>> Four years is enough time to dig New York into a hole that it might not
>> escape for years.
>>
>> History shows the pattern.
>>
>> Consider the relevance of events 50 years ago this week, when a famous
>> headline summed up Gotham’s fiscal nightmare.
>>
>> “Ford to City, Drop Dead,” shouted the Daily News after President Ford
>> vowed to veto any federal effort to bail out the city from its financial
>> mess.
>>
>> For years, New York had lived well beyond its means.
>>
>> So much so that banks took the drastic step of cutting off their lines
>> of credit.
>>
>> The mountain of debts wasn’t built overnight.
>> NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani campaigns.
>> Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a
>> campaign event on November 1, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. Getty Images
>>
>> The eight-year tenure of Republican Mayor John Lindsay that started in
>> 1966 featured a nonstop spend-a-thon and a breakdown of law-and-order.
>>
>> The number of murders exploded, with the total in his final year three
>> times higher than in his first year.
>>
>> The city comptroller at the time, Democrat Abe Beame, never blew the
>> whistle on the chaos, but the Dem machine still got him elected mayor in
>> ’73.
>>
>> His move to City Hall sped up deficit spending, and it was fitting that
>> the banks stopped the grift on his watch.
>>
>> It is also understandable that Ford was reluctant to help unless the
>> city started to clean up its own act.
>>
>> Beame lost his bid for re-election in part because the budget cuts
>> needed to balance the books fell heavily on the NYPD.
>>
>> The city became a filthy crime capital and the quality of life went to
>> hell.
>>
>> Over a few years, nearly 1 million people fled, most to the suburbs or
>> Florida.
>>
>> Ed Koch was the next mayor up, and his bold plans to reduce spending
>> while also shoring up public safety were just what the doctor ordered.
>> Koch’s popularity soared, and as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan told me
>> several years later, Koch’s great triumph was that he showed New
>> Yorkers, Washington and the banks that finally, “somebody is in charge.”
> Although the city had a new bounce in its step, the problems didn’t melt
> away and crime continued to grow as the outgunned NYPD couldn’t keep up.
>
> It wasn’t until 1990, when Koch’s beleaguered successor, David Dinkins,
> worked with Council Speaker Peter Vallone to develop a plan that called
> for hiring 10,000 more cops.
>
> But with a slow roll-out, murders hit an all time high, with about 2,000
> a year recorded during Dinkins’ term.
> Golden Age of NYC
>
> It was only after Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994 that the police
> force was fully funded and smartly used.
>
> Giuliani and his team, including top cop Bill Bratton, used the new
> officers in targeted enforcement campaigns under the revolutionary
> “broken windows” theory of policing.
>
> The results came fast and were dramatic.
>
> Within four years, the number of murders fell by 60%, with huge declines
> in other crimes, too.
>
> The pattern continued through Giuliani’s second term and all through
> Mike Bloomberg’s subsequent three terms as Bloomberg and his top cop,
> Ray Kelly, kept the same policies and extended and improved them.
>
> The result was a 20-year Golden Age of public safety and economic
> expansion that transformed New York into the safest big city in America
> and the world capital of capital.
>
> Jobs and population booms followed, with the city gaining even more
> people than it had lost.
>
> As I wrote at the time, an elderly friend who had spent his entire life
> in New York said he had never seen it shine as it did at the end of
> Bloomberg’s tenure.
>
> Unfortunately, he was followed by Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor since
> Beame.
>
> Anti-cop to the core and a lazy, anti-business leftist, Mayor Putz left
> with crime on the rise and the quality of life in decline.
>
> It is telling — and scary — that Mamdani calls him his favorite mayor.
>
> As if to underscore the idiocy, he pledges to shrink the NYPD.
>
> Reports that de Blasio is advising Mamdani and that there is overlap in
> their inner circles completes the horror scenario.
>
> Polls showing Mamdani leading the race recall a definition of insanity:
> “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different
> outcome.”
>
> Don’t do it, New York.
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