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Here’s one Zohran Mamdani transfer we will cheer: The mayor-elect has apparently kicked Brad Lander to the curb.
Some will see this as ingratitude: After dashing to ally with Mamdani within the Democratic main, the about-to-be-ex-city comptroller zealously thumped for him these previous couple of months — primarily serving as Team Zohran’s “house Jew,” pulling out all of the stops to color the antisemitic socialist as kosher.
Lander had been notoriously angling for some high administration post, however per CNN he’s “out of the picture,” maybe as a result of (by some accounts) he’d been bragging about working City Hall if Mamdani gained.
That definitely appears like Lander, who’s a lot better-known for his vanity and ambition than for something resembling a precept.
So, whereas no one will mistake us for Mamdani followers, we’re glad to see the mayor-elect exhibiting some good sense right here.
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It’d be one other matter if Lander received pushed out as a result of the far-lefties feared he may average Mamdani, however Lander by no means met a radical trigger he couldn’t embrace.
He’s made a idiot of himself with his theatrics — together with getting himself arrested — in protest of Team Trump’s completely legal ICE raids.
Most despicably, for all his claims to be a “proud Jew” who helps Israel, he couldn’t even carry himself to unequivocally condemn the Democratic Socialists of America’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath.
The rally was “abominable,” he admitted, however he additionally reiterated his call for “an end to the [Israeli] Occupation.” (Note: No Israeli had been in Gaza since 2005.)
CNN additionally studies that Mamdani thought Lander wasn’t “particularly effective as comptroller.”
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We’d completely agree, albeit doubtless for reverse causes.
Whatever the case, Mamdani’s made one sensible transfer.
Too unhealthy that Lander is probably going the final lefty he’ll reject.
