Alarm Bells Ring in US Over New York Mayoral Front-Runner – Guido Fawkes

Alarm Bells Ring in US Over New York Mayoral Front-Runner

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Politicos state-side were stunned when self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. A tax-happy pro-Palestine activist, Guido thought to bring co-conspirators a flavour of Mamdani’s eyebrow-raising views…

• 2021: Joined a 15-day hunger strike to demand debt relief for taxi drivers, helping secure a $450 million aid package.
• 2021: Urged activists to only support political candidates who back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, saying there should be consequences for “supporting apartheid.”
• 2022: Refused to co-sponsor the NY Assembly’s Holocaust Remembrance Day resolutions.
• 2023: Introduced the “Not on Our Dime” Act to block NY charities from funding “Israeli settler violence”. 
• 2023: Arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest.
• 2025: Proposed free city buses and universal child-care funded by taxes on the “wealthy” and businesses. A $10 billion tax-grab…
• 2025: Proposed city-run grocery stores. As Trump says, “extreme socialism”…
• 2025: Called to raise the city’s minimum wage to $30 by 2030. A business-wrecking idea…
• 2025: Called for a rent freeze on stabilised units and expanding city-built housing. Limiting housing supply…
• 2025: Defended the phrase “globalize the intifada” as “a symbolic call for Palestinian rights”. Oof…

Usually in deep blue New York City, the winner of the Democratic primary easily takes the general election, which will be held in November. This year’s contest is shaping up to be a five-way race among Mamdani, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and at least three independent candidates, including Cuomo and current Mayor Eric Adams. Donald Trump called Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic” and that “the Democrats have crossed the line”. It’s no wonder Wall Street is terrified at the idea of this man in charge. And the rest of America…