@zohran_k_mamdani Los neoyorquinos latinos son el corazón de esta ciudad y merecen un alcalde que les hable directamente. Este vídeo es un esfuerzo a presentar nuestra visión a la comunidad latina, para que podamos trabajar juntos para construir la ciudad que todos merecemos. Latino New Yorkers are the heart of this city — and they deserve a mayor who will speak to them directly. This video is an effort to introduce our vision to the Latino community, so we can work together to build the city we all deserve.
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This
is pretty irritating, from the New York Times Editorial Board keeping its
promise not to endorse any candidates in local elections any more:
Given those polls [showing Cuomo and Mamdani dominating over the other nine
candidates] the crucial choice may end up being where, if at all, voters
decide to rank Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Mamdani. We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani
deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots. His experience is too thin, and his
agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying
mayoralty. As for Mr. Cuomo, we have serious objections to his ethics and
conduct, even if he would be better for New York’s future than Mr. Mamdani.
For any voters tempted to leave both off their ballots, it is important to
understand that this decision would be tantamount to expressing no
preference between the two. It is similar to voting for neither major-party
candidate in a traditional election.
"We refuse to choose, because it's beneath our awesome dignity, but if you
follow our example you're a moral coward. Also, you should choose the
ethically challenged Cuomo." As they make clear by devoting three paragraphs
to Zohran Mamdani's shortcomings, condemning his ideology, policy ideas, and
inexperience, and the way he reminds them of de Blasio, and just one to Andrew
Cuomo's—the issue of his weird though probably not criminal mistreatment of
women, over which he resigned from the state governorship four years ago, on
the advice of this same editorial board, which now seems to think that was
less serious a fault than advocating a minimum wage hike or free buses, as
Mamdani does.
In the first place, the argument is bullshit. It's a rank-choice vote among
11 candidates, and it is not similar to voting for neither major-party
candidate in a traditional election. With the much smaller (and better
informed) turnout you expect in a primary, and only Democrats voting in New
York's closed-primary system, it's easy to imagine one or two of the other
candidates emerging if enough people decided not to rank the two frontrunners,
and if the frontrunners are as bad as the board seems to think they are,
that's what the board ought to call for, instead of using this backhanded
technique of pushing us in one direction.
Then, Cuomo's ethical failings
aren't limited
to the #MeToo moments that helped to drive him out of office. In the middle of
his first term as governor, in 2013, he named what's called a "Moreland
Commission" in New York to fight corruption in state government, then abruptly
shut it down halfway through its 18-month appointed lifetime. It later became
apparent that Cuomo and his aides had never really allowed it to function, as
The Times
reported:
