I don't know him and its hard to say when talking about elections in other areas but the way they try and attack him sounds a lot like when johnson was running for chicago. All said and done im glad johnson is in charge under these circumstances rather than someone who is a bit more compromisey. Reminds me a bit of how they attack bernie to.

Former NYC resident, I would've voted for him if I lived there.

See, Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment, which, fine "innocent until proven guilty", but dude literally resigns in the middle of an investigation... yea that's pretty much an admission of guilt and this was done so his successor would try to bury it as much as possible. So yea, that resignation basically made him guilty in my mind. Also, very centrist af, another reason to dislike cuomo.

As for Mamdani, I've always liked progressives as long as they are pragmatic and they aren't supportative of authoritarian regimes like USSR or PRC, which to my knowledge, Mamdani does not support those regimes, he is a Democratic Socialist, he believes in Democracy. I don't have the red scare mindset of most Americans have so I'm not afraid of that. There's no way Mamdani could ever do anything ridiculous like "Sharia Law", that's some insane far-right propaganda. Mamdani isn't even really that religious, more like culturally religious, not so different from many of these "Christians". As long as they don't impose their views on people, it doesn't matter what their religion is.

Also, he's the only one who said he'll be staying in NYC while everyone else said they're visiting israel... like, bruh this is the Mayoral race for NYC, not Tel Aviv. The other candidates are just insane, who cares about israel, this is a Mayoral race, not POTUS. Its like they all got paid by AIPAC or something.

I wish I could vote for him. I wish he was running for a bigger office. He's everything the Democrats should be, and they hate that, which makes him even better.

Conservatives hate him with a fury so he must be a good guy.

I'm cautiously optimistic. He reminds me of Barack Obama in 2008, hence the caution, but he has a lot more specific policy goals, which helps a lot. Obama's pivot is less surprising in retrospect because he was sort of a Rorschach test for anyone disillusioned with the Bush administration.

No, you can't have a new Obama. You haven't even finished with your first Obama

I have no opinion on him and have no clue what he's about. But I've heard of him and it pleases me no end how much he seems to annoy the MAGA nutcases. I hope he lives up to the expectations of the people of NYC that elected him.

Seems cool. I like that he's thinking proactively about solutions. I'm not sure how much power he'll have to enact those solutions, but I'm eager to see what he does; not least because if he can make it work in NYC maybe we can crib those successes here in Chicago.

I wouldn't be very enthusiastic about him myself, but I don't live in New York City, and people there can vote for whatever makes them happy.

I do think that New York City residents have some very legitimate concerns about cost of living, but that

as in California

a lot of those actually stem from restrictive rules on housing construction, which produces an artificial shortage in housing. Housing costs eating up income is the bulk of the root problem to address, not grocery prices or what-have-you. And that happens when one blocks the construction of housing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/how-skyscrapers-can-save-the-city/308387/

https://archive.ph/jRQIm (bypassing paywall for above article)

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/New-York

• New York is 10.2% more expensive than Seattle (excluding rent).

• Rent in New York is, on average, 58.7% higher than in Seattle.

• New York has 1st Most Expensive 1 Bedroom Apartment in City Centre in the World (out of 381 cities) for New York, NY

Distribution of expenses per month for New York City: 43.1% rent

Normally, a personal finance rule of thumb is to keep housing costs below 30% of income.

What New York City needs is to unchain developers to the point that they can build housing. A lot more housing. That will make NYC more affordable for its residents. That will also cause people with condos and such to see their house values decline, which they probably won't like, but we got here through a long-running situation where there wasn't enough housing. There's not a way out of that without disruption.