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Zohran Mamdani’s win for NYC mayor should send tremors far beyond New York City. A Mamdani victory will ignite wholesale legislative attacks on property owners, charter schools, law enforcement and businesses all across New York state. From Buffalo to Amagansett, nothing will be spared.
In New York, the big decisions about criminal law, education, rent laws and taxation are legislated at the state level, not locally. Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America will be calling the shots in Albany as well as at City Hall. New Yorkers, brace yourselves for crazy laws and huge tax hikes.
Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly from Queens until he is sworn in as mayor, gathered endorsements from the state’s top legislative leaders and sizable blocks in the Assembly and Senate, including 27 Assembly members and 16 state senators, even before his victory.
His conquest Tuesday elevates him to national stature but also sets him up as the de facto head of the Democratic Party in New York state, far more influential than Gov. Kathy Hochul. Her approval rating is in the basement, and she’s fawning desperately over Mamdani to curry favor with the Left.
Mamdani’s power at the Capitol means moderate Democrats will fall into line “to enact a lot of his wish list,” reports Democratic Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz from Long Island. Blumencranz calls it “a perfect storm” about to hit the entire state.
On the top of the DSA wish list and Mamdani’s agenda is decarceration, putting criminals on the streets.
Pro-criminal DSA legislators led the effort to pass the “Less is More” act in 2021. The law allows violent criminals who violate parole — by taking drugs, for example — to stay free. That law explains why Jamel McGriff, walking the streets despite parole violations, was able to allegedly invade the home of an elderly Queens couple in September, torture them to death, and then set their house afire with them in it.
DSA legislators are moving to decriminalize prostitution under a state Senate bill titled “Cecilia’s Act for Rights in the Sex Trade” and to eliminate all criminal and civil penalties for possession of illegal drugs under state Senate Bill S3600.
Mamdani ally state Sen. Zellnor Myrie is backing a bill, already passed in the Assembly, to extend youthful offender status to alleged criminals ages 19 to 25, sparing them from a criminal conviction and sealing their arrest record. It’s magnifying the mistake made by the Raise the Age legislation passed in 2019, which pushed the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.
New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch warns that Raise the Age has led to a quadrupling of homicides committed by juveniles and an 81 percent increase of juveniles being shot. Violent teens under 18 who commit heinous crimes get a slap on the wrist in family court and are back on the playground to offend again. Mamdani’s allies in Albany are poised to make it even worse, letting off violent criminals who are in their 20s. It’s crazy.
Mamdani and the DSA are sworn enemies of charter schools. They’d prefer to let thousands of low-income and minority students languish in geographically assigned district schools that are nothing more than failure factories.
Decisions about increasing the number of charter schools are made in Albany jointly by the State University of New York trustees, who generally favor them, and the SUNY Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature and generally reflect the Democratic Party’s slavish acquiescence to the teachers unions. State Senate Bill 6800, sponsored by Mamdani ally Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn of Brooklyn, would strip the SUNY trustees of their charter powers, leaving charters at the mercy of the hostile Board of Regents. Students will be the losers.
Property owners are in the DSA’s crosshairs. The party is aiming to take rent regulation — which has doomed New York City to shortage and dilapidated housing — statewide with state Senate Bill 4659, then extend it to commercial properties like stores with state Senate Bill 8319.
Candidate Mamdani promised free bus rides, free child care and other freebies, and he wants everyone in the state to foot the bill. His campaign has proposed hiking the state’s corporate tax rate by almost half, to 11.5 percent. Mamdani ally state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal has already introduced a bill to hike corporate taxes though by slightly less.
Corporate taxes ultimately get passed on to employees and customers, not just owners. And sink economic growth.
New York state already ranks dead last, 50th out of 50, in economic outlook, thanks largely to high taxes. How much worse can it get? Mamdani’s money-hungry mayoralty will suck the state dry.
Now is the time to mobilize a statewide counteroffensive to prevent a socialist takeover of state government. Do not wait for next year’s statewide elections. Leaders from the nonprofit sector, including the Business Council, the Chamber of Commerce of Greater New York, and the New York State Bar Association, need to flood the state legislature with warnings and provide reinforcements for the vastly outnumbered Republicans and beleaguered moderate Democrats.
Mamdani won in New York City, but the battle now moves to Albany.
It’s amazing , regarding all those residents of New York City who voted for Mamdani. ,What is the amazing part that he is dangerous . It really is a baffling wonder that they can’t see him for the terrible menace that he really and truly is.
A large segment of white women and younger people voted for Mamdani. There was a video on YouTube of a man interviewing people in NYC that voted for Mamdani. Nobody could cite his policies. Al just voted for the sake of change. Well, change they will receive.
They also voted because he is a decent looking male specimen with a good smile.(although I get nauseous when I look at him) Besides, from what I understand – TikTok videos said vote for him!
The sheer insanity of women in general of all ages and Jews who voted for Mamdani is insanely mind boggling.
We can only hope that they do not suffer too much due to their evil stupidity.
Americans should be aware of those stealth jihad- minded Muslims, as Zohran Mamdani, of New York City, and other similar Muslim politicians who are living in the United States who attempt to have Sharia law enacted in this country. They are essence and spirit very un-American.
The facts that this is the United States, and has something that is far better than Sharia law. It’s the US Constitution. This is America, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Looking more like the Ba’ath Party. Islamic socialism. Not good for Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists or even Muslims.
The bottom-line is nothing Mamdani proposes will bring prosperity to New York City and that’s the point missed by everyone, including the mainstream media. True hardcore socialism allows no room for private property nor private business. The state is the sole owner of the means of production along with being the sole distributer of all products and services. This is where Western idiots’ promotion of socialism goes off on the meme tangent of ‘free’ things. In socialism, nothing is free; distribution of products and service just don’t respond to people’s needs as reflected in a market economy.
In a socialist economy, the centralized government operates on 4, 5 or 6 year plan. This is part of the reason for a scarcity of goods because the government plans for the production of only so much: grain, rice, wheat, etc. The problem is fixed plans can’t respond to economic changes and as time goes on, poor planning translates to food rationing in the long run. In contrast to private business, which allows for choice and a variety of goods. If the government is the sole producer of all goods then it must tightly budget money everywhere to create just the basics. So in a socialist economy, the government will just produce 2 types of bars of soap and maybe 3 types of toothbrushes and only 1 type of toothpaste. Housing is built and citizens are on long wait lists to get an assigned apartment. There’s nothing really free, it’s just that life is so highly subsidized because everything is provided by the government.
The problem with the Mamdani’s of the world is their ideas can’t work in isolation within a free market economy. There’s something called capital flight, where the productive class and entrepreneurs along with their money will voluntarily move to another part of the country. All Mamdani offers is forced redistribution of goods and services but that economic policy first requires money and a hell lot of it! That’s why Communism (a dictatorship of the proletariat) is necessary in order to implement socialism because without it, half-assed voluntary socialist policies will always fail in a market economy.
and communism NEVER works except to kill millions of people who the communists deem unworthy to keep living.
How true, Jonathan! Soviet scientists apparently came up with a rudimentary schematic for the internet even before British genius Tim Berners Lee. However, they could apply only to the Kremlin for development funding. They were turned down by short-sighted bureaucrats, and the rest is history.
The New Communist Party of America will do anything to regain power and when they do get in the Whitehouse again we will see the entire country a socialist regime. Just as Europe has fallen to Islamic socialism it will happen here also. This is the elite globalists determination for the world. The WEF, UN and filthy rich business men wish to rule with impunity and they will. The one world order is here and only a vicious fight by the masses could stop it. Unfortunately the masses no longer have that within them and we are destined to be serfs ruled by lords yet again.
Everyone needs to take NYC(Home of that Cheap Salsa)off t heir Tourists Lists in the Summer of 2026 and Lady Liberty can move to Florida
Would that we could move so many of NYC’s wonderful museums somewhere else!
What is the problem? This is exactly what the people wanted. The intellectuals have preached it for decades. They are much more intelligent and are invited for cocktails at the coolest residences. What could go wrong?
Now the backwoods New Yorkers get to fully enjoy the fruits of their municipal brethren. There are only 2 problems. One is that the psychiatric patients in the city (75%) will put a strain on the pharmacies’ inventories in Florida. Two is that some of the escaping patients will move to other southern states thereby ruining the way of life for normal people. Lastly, these simpletons will whine for a bailout from the rest of the country,
Let them repopulate Gaza.
As a New Yorker who’s lived on Long Island all my life, I deeply
appreciate articles like this from Betsy Mc Caughey. The state
elections next year will be crucial to pay attention to.
Because I don’t want violent crime and blight creeping across
the state due to a more dominant stranglehold on Albany politics
from Mamdani’s cronies, the Democratic Socialists.
When big states like California, New York, even Texas begin toppling
from the ravages of socialism (precursor to Communism) on their
way to the ravages of Islam – other Americans should not sit back
on their smug asses and say “It’s what they deserve. They
voted for it”. Because there are very large parts of the population
that did not vote for it and because the Communist-Islamist Left
is relentless – never stopping for a second – in their working efforts
to bring America down.
Which means that you and your kids and your state are next in the
crosshairs of tyranny and destruction. May God bless the huge minorities
of well-meaning Americans in the aforementioned ravaged states and
in all the states – and grant us some way to pull together against this
onslaught. So far we have Trump. But not for long. We had Charlie
Kirk. But not for long – because the Left will try to destroy anyone we
rally around to keep us from uniting. So if you think you are not a part
of New York’s battle – think again.
Mamdani is not only a risk to New York. He has set in motion a “socialist/Islamo-Marxist movement that can and likely will spread across the country. See Seattle and Houston. As long as the illiterate voters, many of whom attended elite universities, continue to fall for the socialist rhetoric spewed by Mamdani and his class the US is at great risk of being toppled. Yes, it could happen here.
“Sorry, Ladies, Radical Politicians Such As Mamdani Are No Substitute For A Husband”
by Brooke Brandtjen November 13, 2025 thefederalist.com
“Young women love Zohran Mamdani in part because they don’t have a husband. Eighty-four percent of 18- to 29-year-old women voted for Mamdani. Young women don’t have to worry about their social justice status because Mamdani’s brown skin and Muslim identity signal that he is the most disaffected and is therefore the most tolerant. The number of young women prescribed [psychiatric medications] has skyrocketed and many are in therapy. Young women are conditioned to be sad, angry, and financially unstable. Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ campaign in 2012 played on female anxieties about college, health insurance, motherhood, and career. Democrats made women feel vulnerable and presented the government as a sort of benevolent husband. Mamdani didn’t need experience or logic to win because he won over the hearts of young women. The destructive fire of feminism is fueling the Democrat cause.”
A ridiculous article, W.A.T.D. Young people support the left because they are inexperienced and uninformed. They have no memory of history. Bernie Sanders fans belong to the same demographic.
This new Seattle mayor and people like Mamdami and Bernie Sanders basically have a child’s understanding of economics:
“Poor people are poor because rich people are rich. Rich people are bad and poor people are good. Therefore, the solution is to take money from the evil rich people and give it to the good poor people. And we, the Politically Correct Enlightened Progressive People, will decide how much money we will take from the evil rich people to give to the good poor people.”
No idea is more wrong or more dangerous. No idea has caused more misery, starvation and Genocide throughout history. There are literally millions of people who have been murdered as a result of this idea and still people want to try it again.
The solution is to leave the rich people and the poor people as they are (good, bad, both and neither). Then put all the Politically Correct Enlightened Progressive People (the source of all evil on Earth) on a one-way rocket ship to Pluto. No more “communism”. End of problem.
Same. That would solve everything in, what, 5 minutes?
This is tantamount to watching the fall of the Roman Empire from ring-side seats and munching very good popcorn…….and with WIFI no less.. WAKE UP, PEOPLE. When the Communists and low IQ third worlders start the bloodletting in every city in America there will be no safe place. When the low IQ third worlders finish with the citys, they will start with the suburbs and farmsteads. THERE WILL BE NO PLACE TO RUN. I will say it again…NO PLACE TO RUN. AND NO ONE IS COMING TO BAIL YOUR SORRY ASS OUT. When that happens, its all over…..FINI
JB88 says:
With both music and dance outlawed in Islam – see r40.0 in the Reliance of the Traveller – what will happen to Broadway, a huge draw for many? Additionally, alcohol is not allowed in Islam – see 016.0 – so what happens to restaurants, lounges, liquor stores, and who will be enforcing those laws? To read the punishments, I recommend you look into the Reliance of the Traveller (sections o16.2 and o16.3).
As time marches onward, it seems increasingly evident that this scheister has managed to pull a coup, right out in the open.
It will be amusing to observe the point at which enough eyes get opened wide enough to spark serious pushback.
Okayyyyyy now! Heads outa rumpuses. The voting system is still broke. They manipulate things. Anyone hear there were public safety issues announced in other states on that day. The common factor? BLUE
If this camel-jockey does not destroy NYC with his policies, it will be destroyed by so many people moving elsewhere. EITHER WAY, HE ‘WINS’ !