It’s Cuomo or catastrophe for New York – Latest News
I don’t know many people who’ve stated or written nastier issues about Andrew Cuomo than I’ve. Yet if I nonetheless lived within the metropolis, I’d vote for him subsequent month in a heartbeat. Doing in any other case can be grossly irresponsible for somebody who’s known as the Big Apple home most of his life.
I served as spokesman to 2 Republican gubernatorial challengers to Cuomo. I can’t depend the quantity of causes and shoppers I’ve labored with who locked horns with the previous governor. My p.r. firm efficiently sued Cuomo’s notorious “J-Joke” ethics board on First Amendment grounds.
Independent candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a mayoral debate on Oct. 16. AP
I even ran the biggest GOP membership in Manhattan and spent a week within the mid-Eighties within the bowels of the Republican National Committee chasing down unsubstantiated mob rumors about Andrew’s mom’s household. Suffice to say, I’m no Cuomophile.
And but there’s no selection. It’s Cuomo or Catastrophe. This mayoral race is binary, not trinary. Voters need to get that by means of their heads as early voting begins this weekend.
William F. B. O’Reilly, a New York-based Republican marketing consultant and a former Newsday columnist, believes Cuomo is the best suited of the three candidates to be New York’s subsequent mayor. Courtesy of Bill O’Reilly
The Republican, Curtis Sliwa, can’t win. I do know and respect Curtis and his marketing campaign crew, however he is not going to garner a plurality of votes in November. Not on this balkanized political surroundings. Either Cuomo or socialist wunderkind Zohran Mamdani shall be Gotham’s subsequent chief government. Just a truth.
One can largely thank sophomoric Gen-X voters who flooded Brooklyn and Manhattan after Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg saved New York from liberalism for the rise of this younger Marxist. They have no concept how dangerous the town can get. It nearly buckled beneath liberalism within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties; think about what Mamdani’s offended socialism may deliver.
Some ostensibly rational voters shall be voting for Mamdani solely to stay it to President Trump. They need to assist the leftest-of-the-left candidate to specific outrage, a basic case of a nostril spiting a face. It makes no sense.
There’s time to rethink.
It’s value remembering in years like this one which New York solely obtained Giuliani and Bloomberg as a result of average Democrats and independents crossed over to assist them. Giuliani received 4 out of 5 boroughs in his 1997 re-election — together with Brooklyn and Manhattan! — in a metropolis that was much less than 20% Republican. Moderate Democrats put the town above their social gathering, and Republicans had been grateful for it.
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) shakes fingers with Mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg in 2001. REUTERS
Now the shoe is on the opposite foot. The comparatively average Democrat within the race, if one can call Cuomo that, wants Republicans and independents to cross over to stop the Mamdani loopy practice. Every one of them needs to be contemplating voting for the previous governor on his impartial line.
This isn’t the New York of the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s. For all its faults and crises, the town was far stronger back then. Wall Street wasn’t going wherever, and our manufacturing base nonetheless offered tens of hundreds of decently paying jobs. It would take a long time more of counterproductive public insurance policies to deliver us to the place we are actually.
Today, New York is in main hassle. We’re bleeding finance-industry jobs, our golden goose, to different states. Office real estate, one other chief financial girder, might by no means absolutely recuperate from COVID office adjustments. Broadway can no longer fill seats.
Independent candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani take part in a mayoral debate on October 16. by way of REUTERS
The backside line is tax-revenue-generating professionals don’t need to be in Manhattan anymore. Neither do Fortune 500 firms. That’s a main drawback. We needs to be doing every little thing in our energy to reverse the trend, not electing a socialist seeking to dance on capitalism’s grave.
There are colleagues on the fitting who consider a Mamdani victory can be a long-term good for the GOP. It would show voters simply how far left the Democratic Party has turn into. There is logic in that argument, however the stakes are too high. If Mamdani wins, there could also be nothing left of the town to battle for. Mamdani’s radical anti-cop insurance policies may harm the 5 boroughs for a long time.
I can’t inform anybody what to do, but when it had been me, I’d maintain my nostril and vote for Cuomo. Then I’d spend the following 4 years holding his ft to the fire.
William F. B. O’Reilly is a New York-based Republican marketing consultant and a former Newsday columnist.
