The UFT’s Mamdani assist: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The United Federation of Teachers endorsing Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.
The undeniable fact that the New York City United Federation of Teachers endorsed Zohran Mamdani sends a message to residents about what we are able to anticipate from our faculties, that are dangerous enough already (“Selling Out NYC’s Kids,” Editorial, July 10).
We are teetering on the brink. This man will put us straight down the drain. Electing him will push an even greater flight of the hard-working center class proper out of the town. Who will then pay for all of the entitlements he desires to push?
The alternative shouldn’t be good, and one other candidate must drop out to keep away from splitting the anti-Mamdani vote. Who it will likely be will depend on how a lot they love this metropolis. We need to vote, and typically the satan is best than the true satan.
Maureen Sharkey
Brooklyn
With the academics union now backing Mamdani, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see the place he stands on college vouchers, since they’re routine in Scandinavian international locations, which function his democratic socialist paradigm.
The center class pays the majority of taxes in international locations like Sweden to assist beneficiant welfare advantages. Yet there’s no minimal wage, a 25% gross sales tax and lots of of the welfare advantages are managed by personal corporations. The UFT has fiercely opposed related positions right here.
Will Mamdani truly govern with this model, or will he modify his positions in return for assist from the prosperous unions? If so, he’s simply one other sleazy politician for sale.
Charles Compton
The Bronx
Public union members who’re paid by taxpayers shouldn’t be allowed to donate to political events as a result of of the cycle it creates.
The taxpayer pays taxes that go to the public college, the trainer will get paid from these taxes, the trainer pays union dues, then the union donates to a political celebration, and that political celebration provides the union no matter it desires.
Oh, and it’s principally one celebration getting that money.
John Ianni
Wappingers Falls
The academics union supporting Zohran for mayor is the right instance of how public faculties are failing college students.
Schools don’t educate college students the reality about socialism. They put the phrase “democratic” in entrance of “socialist” to make it sound higher.
Voters higher wake up and vote out anybody who helps this twisted ideology, otherwise you’ll study the arduous method by experiencing it.
Rob Mele
New Haven, Conn.
The Issue: The Department of Justice claiming Jeffrey Epstein didn’t keep a shopper checklist and did commit suicide.
We had been promised the reality (“No Epstein ‘client list,’ & no murder: feds,” July 7).
We had been informed the Epstein recordsdata can be launched, the swamp can be drained and the elites who preyed on kids would face the music.
Instead, we received a memo from President Trump’s Justice Department and FBI saying there may be no Epstein shopper checklist, blackmail or additional fees — simply a suicide and a shrug.
This isn’t simply a betrayal — it’s spit within the face of each MAGA voter who believed Trump was totally different.
William Bailey
Kingsport, Tenn.
What an insult: The Post’s two-page unfold “The Conspiracy Weary” (Brendan O’Neill, July 10) ridicules the skeptical plenty for making use of logical inquiry to the Epstein affair.
The Epstein affair and its coverup are governmental “frame rot” undermining our constitutional republic.
Michael Klewin
Lawrence Township, NJ
Trump was approached about Epstein’s recordsdata and kind of implied it was previous information.
But he retains bringing up the 2020 election, which is 4 ¹/₂ years previous.
Raymond Mangano
Brooklyn
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