Mamdani’s debate lies, dodges and fumbles — signs – Latest News
Zohran Mamdani on Thursday evening handled New Yorkers to a preview of what they will anticipate if he wins: Outright lies, deflection from direct questions and fantasy economics.
Confronted about his long-stated perception that prostitution needs to be legal, Mamdani shook his head and stated it was all lies — he by no means stated that.
Hah! He stated it on the ground of the state Assembly whereas voting “Yes” on a invoice to legalize loitering for the aim of prostitution: “While this bill does not decriminalize sex work,” Mamdani proclaimed Feb. 2, 2021, “I would like to register my support for such legislation, my eagerness for that debate and for my fundamental belief that sex work is work” (emphasis ours).
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Saying “Sex work is work,” implies that promoting your physique is no completely different from being a librarian or a waiter.
So Mamdani is both a liar or willfully forgetful.
Asked if he’d attend the parades that mayors sometimes march in, Mamdani grinned like a cranium and stated he’d skip some parades as a result of he can be too busy at work; pushed to specify, he shrugged.
Come on: It’s apparent he’ll skip Columbus Day, Israel Day and India Day, for starters, since he’s brazenly anti-Columbus, anti-Israel and anti-India.
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He simply received’t risk admitting that he has no intention of being a mayor for all New Yorkers.
He was completely incoherent on mayoral control of the public faculty system: He’s in opposition to it, however desires “accountability” and affords plans for operating the system, albeit actually solely about spending even more on lecturers when the Department of Education already burns roughly $40,000 per scholar.
He can’t fairly clarify how or why (or, actually if) he got here to determine that metropolis cops aren’t a pack of rampaging racists, how the Rent Guidelines Board works or why he thinks 911 operators can reliably determine which Emotionally Disturbed Person calls social employees can reply to with NYPD backup.
And his rationalization of how he’d put the Civilian Complaint Review Board in charge of police self-discipline was a Kamala-level phrase salad.
How will he help building homeowners adjust to Local Law 97’s mandates to slash carbon emissions? Somehow, city-run buying will magically shrink the prices.
He calls for that you simply ignore even his current statements of hatred for the cops and help for jihadi terror, just because he’s not carrying these positions on his sleeve now during the marketing campaign.
But, hey, he says all of it with a smile!
The day he takes over as mayor and has to start out doing moderately than speaking is the day the disasters start.
