Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem on Saturday as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary, telling the crowd that people struggling to pay for housing, groceries and bus fare are hungry for change.
Mamdani appeared at a National Action Network rally days after declaring victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the presumed favorite in the primary. Results will be finalized after the city’s ranked choice vote-counting resumes Tuesday.
“What our victory showed on election night was less a victory between one man and another, but a victory for a city that New Yorkers can afford,” Mamdani said at a rally attended by Black clergy and filmmaker Spike Lee
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the influential leader of the network, praised Mamdani for coming to the rally, despite reports that he lost some of the city’s most solidly Black neighborhoods in the primary.
“He could have went the other way and said, ‘It’s me against them.’ But he came this morning and he proclaimed something. And I gave him a lot of credit for that,” Sharpton said.
The winner of the Democratic primary advances to November’s election.
Mayor Eric Adams is running for reelection as an independent candidate. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the crime-fighting Guardian Angels, is running as a Republican. Cuomo, who has conceded defeat in the primary, also could run as an independent candidate.
In Harlem, the 33-year-old state lawmaker stuck to a cost-of-living theme that skyrocketed him to political stardom, weaving in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., the Bible and the city’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins.
He said people question whether the city will become “a museum” of a place where working people could once thrive.
“What we have seen in the last two weeks is a hunger from New Yorkers to move beyond the days of museums and relics and make this city a living, breathing testament to what is possible.”
(AP)
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Diamond-Merchants Al.
Pogroms, rioting, and manipulative claims of harassment coming soon to a theater near you
Sharpton deserves much of the credit for Giuliani being elected mayor (defeating Dinkins), and Pataki being elected governor (defeated Mario Cuomo). Mamdani may be a sign that New York State will soon be “purple”. And unlike 30 years ago, this time Sharpton and his new found buddy might impact on national politics and perhaps allow the MAGA Republicans to overcome the “curse” of mid-terms (though in 1992 it had a limited impact, forcing the Democrats to take a stand against left-wing anti-police racist bigotry, leading to a relatively moderate Democrat winning the White House, but not helping the Republicans nationally).
We learn from yesterday פרשת קרח:- Woe to bad people:- Woe to their neighbors.
Thank you for consorting with sharpton:- Now everyone for sure knows mandani’s true colors.
Tanana Brawley and “Rabbi” Yisroel Duvid Weiis are slated to get serious cabinet positions in this guy’s new government.
Zohran Mamdummy should be deported. Manhattan will look like Haiti after a weeks of his policies.
When Mandummy substitutes out NYPD from the trains in favor of social workers the subway system will resemble an African jungle.
Yeah, a lot of leftists are jerks. Still, Republicans gave Gaza to Hamas twenty years ago. Republicans are the ones who globalized the intifada.
Businesses and companies will leave Manhattan. Manhattan will turn in to a second Harlem. If you have any assets In NYC you better quickly sell them before Nov when they will become worthless.
Just wondering. Are there no other powerful candidates in NYC that could defeat this boy that had no popularity until several weeks ago ??????
Mordechai Lightstone, “30 Years After the Crown Heights Riots, the Lawyer Who Refused to Let His Brother Be Forgotten
Remembering Norman Rosenbaum.
August 6, 2020:
Returning from a visit to family members in another part of Brooklyn at 11:20 p.m. on Aug. 19, Yankel was attacked by a mob of as many as 20 youths.
Amid shouts of “Let’s kill the Jew,” Yankel Rosenbaum, who stood at 6’4” with a full beard and yarmulka, attempted to take flight. He was overwhelmed by the vicious crowd, who proceeded to beat him, fracturing his skull, and then stabbed him repeatedly. He was rushed to nearby Kings County Hospital after identifying one of his assailants to police, but passed away at 2:25 a.m.
The four days from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22, which became known as the Crown Heights riots, were precipitated by a tragic car accident. At 8:20 p.m. on Aug. 19, a station wagon driven by a Chassidic Jew trailing the Rebbe on a return trip from the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, N.Y., was hit by another car while crossing the intersection of Utica and President Streets in Crown Heights. The station wagon spun out of control, careening into a nearby apartment building and pinning two young Caribbean American children—cousins Gavin and Angela Cato—against the building’s wall…
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Did the Islamic bigot Mamdani visit Ari Halberstam bridge?
Reverend Sharptongue and Imam Mamdani make the perfect tag-team. One used to look like a pig, and the other doesn’t eat pig, but they both live high off the hog of taxpayers.
the achilles heel of democracy is that everyone gets to vote. mamdani is playing the populist card, promising to steal from the rich to give to the poor. someone should clarify that he means to steal from people who are “whiter” to give to people who are “darker”, if there’s anything left after he takes his cut.