@Adam D. I agree but Curtis supporters will still need to fill out 4 choices in order of preference because New York has ranked choice voting now and the votes of the candidates you picked who are eliminated go to the next one on your list, they are redistributed. That’s how Mamdanit won. Cross-endorsements. Most Cuomo voters just voted for Cuomo. Any candidate who fails to get 50 percent in a round is eliminated. It’s a different system now. Cuomo voters tended to be older so voted as if the old system is in place. I think this is only the second ranked choiice election.
My endorsements;
1. Curtis Sliwa
2. Eric Adams
3. Jim Walden
4. Andrew Cuomo
You get 5 choices but the 5th would be Mamdani.
Mamdani ran an “Anybody but Cuomo” campaign.
Pro-Israel voters must reciiprocate in the general election and vote: “Anybody but Mamdani” to win.
As a New Yorker myself, I have to say I think Eric Adams is a terrific mayor and certainly the only one with any relevant experience but I like Curtis Sliwa’s platform bettter. Adams is the Trump candidate though Sliwa is also on the same page despite belonging to the non-Trump wing of the Republican party. He is endorsed by every Republican chapter in New York.
Originially a Republican, Mayor Eric Adams was a state legislator. borough president of Brooklyn and a police captain! The only one of the other candidates with any political or executive experience is Cuomo who was Governor and had a couple minor state wide positions before that.
Mayor Adams also founded “One Hundred Men in Law Enforcement,” an organization of black police officers that lobbied to correct civil rights violations by police. He had been a victim of that, he said, when he was young. Black voters did not turn out for Mamdani. It was mostly white educated, well-heeled, young people.
Mamdani is really popular in his district – he’s a state assemblyman – of traditionally Greek Astoria, amazingly. But, apparently it now has a big “Middle Eastern” population.
Just started to listen to it myself.
https://www.youtube.com/live/wSp_Te3VZcA?si=xXIL6Tmlf5YSGj94
Just finished it. He’s great but he doesn’t understand about ranked choice voting. Uniting behind one candidate won’t cut it. See my other comment.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/only-5-of-new-yorkers-voted-for-mamdani/
Absoluely right! Eric Adams says he will save NY from Mamdana as an independent candidate. But I think Curtis is a much better bet.
@Adam D. I agree but Curtis supporters will still need to fill out 4 choices in order of preference because New York has ranked choice voting now and the votes of the candidates you picked who are eliminated go to the next one on your list, they are redistributed. That’s how Mamdanit won. Cross-endorsements. Most Cuomo voters just voted for Cuomo. Any candidate who fails to get 50 percent in a round is eliminated. It’s a different system now. Cuomo voters tended to be older so voted as if the old system is in place. I think this is only the second ranked choiice election.
My endorsements;
1. Curtis Sliwa
2. Eric Adams
3. Jim Walden
4. Andrew Cuomo
You get 5 choices but the 5th would be Mamdani.
Mamdani ran an “Anybody but Cuomo” campaign.
Pro-Israel voters must reciiprocate in the general election and vote: “Anybody but Mamdani” to win.
As a New Yorker myself, I have to say I think Eric Adams is a terrific mayor and certainly the only one with any relevant experience but I like Curtis Sliwa’s platform bettter. Adams is the Trump candidate though Sliwa is also on the same page despite belonging to the non-Trump wing of the Republican party. He is endorsed by every Republican chapter in New York.
Originially a Republican, Mayor Eric Adams was a state legislator. borough president of Brooklyn and a police captain! The only one of the other candidates with any political or executive experience is Cuomo who was Governor and had a couple minor state wide positions before that.
Mayor Adams also founded “One Hundred Men in Law Enforcement,” an organization of black police officers that lobbied to correct civil rights violations by police. He had been a victim of that, he said, when he was young. Black voters did not turn out for Mamdani. It was mostly white educated, well-heeled, young people.
Mamdani is really popular in his district – he’s a state assemblyman – of traditionally Greek Astoria, amazingly. But, apparently it now has a big “Middle Eastern” population.
https://www.jta.org/2025/06/25/ny/zohran-mamdanis-victory-in-nyc-mayoral-primary-riles-the-pro-israel-establishment-and-thrills-progressives
Is NYC on the brink of disaster?
https://open.substack.com/pub/lel817/p/is-nyc-on-the-brink-of-disaster?r=1q2uiq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Today is Thursday. Tuesday night, the Marxist/Jihadist won the Democrat primary.
Curtis has gotta win in the general election!
Absoluely right! Eric Adams says he will save NY from Mamdana as an independent candidate. But I think Curtis is a much better bet.