NYC Mayor/2021 Megathread

[Suburbia]

Whoever the next NYC mayor will have an even bitter brawl with the NYPD, especially if it is a Jumanne-type.

I hope they are ready, because the PBAs will be even bigger scorched earth with them than they were under DeBlasio.

They liked Giuliani.

The officers who attacked Louima apparently shouted racial epithets, including, "This is Giuliani time, not Dinkins time."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/09/08/giuliani-unbound


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faeW6Z3hQ2w

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/harold-heshy-tischler-custody-orthodox-jewish-protests-new-york/index.html

Outspoken protester Harold "Heshy" Tischler was taken into custody Sunday evening in connection with an alleged assault during protests against new anti-coronavirus restrictions in an Orthodox Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York police say.

Some members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested in the Borough Park neighborhood for multiple nights last week in response to the measures, which limit gatherings in houses of worship in areas identified as Covid-19 clusters.
Jewish Insider reporter Jacob Kornbluh claimed on a verified Twitter account that during protests Wednesday night he was brutally assaulted after Tischler "recognized me and ordered the crowd to chase me down the street."

Confirming Tischler's detention Sunday, a New York City Police Department spokesman said that charges of inciting a riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the incident surrounding Kornbluh are pending.

"The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold 'Heshy' Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn," the department said on Twitter.

CNN has made multiple attempts to reach Tischler, but has not received a response.
Tischler is a candidate for New York City Council, a supporter of President Trump, and an outspoken critic of social distancing restrictions, according to posts on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

https://twitter.com/HeshyTischlerNY/status/1314625177565704192
There have been protests and riots for the past several days now, and Tischler's arrest adds fuel to the fire.

Tischler is running in the 48th City Council District.

What an absolute piece of crap. Bonus: he's not even Hasidic. I think he must be Modern Orthodox because he speaks Yiddish but he doesn't follow most of the traditions the Ultras do. Yet he still feels comfortable rallying them to protest against safety measures that will help them avoid more of the the deaths they experienced at the peak of the outbreak.

I remember Ray Goldfield was applauding him for leading the playground chain destructions back in the spring. Looks pretty bad now in retrospect.

I hadn't even heard of this goon until he started his riots this past week. I remember saluting Simcha Felder and Kalman Yeger for undoing the Mayor's illegal, ethnically targeted selected closing of parks and playgrounds in the summer. If he was there, he wasn't making a scene yet.

Obviously this idiot need to be prosecuted for his assault on a respected Jewish journalist, but the best way to prevent more idiots like him from emerging is to remove the man responsible for creating a hostile and dangerous atmosphere for religious Jews in NYC.

[Crane]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/harold-heshy-tischler-custody-orthodox-jewish-protests-new-york/index.html

Outspoken protester Harold "Heshy" Tischler was taken into custody Sunday evening in connection with an alleged assault during protests against new anti-coronavirus restrictions in an Orthodox Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York police say.

Some members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested in the Borough Park neighborhood for multiple nights last week in response to the measures, which limit gatherings in houses of worship in areas identified as Covid-19 clusters.
Jewish Insider reporter Jacob Kornbluh claimed on a verified Twitter account that during protests Wednesday night he was brutally assaulted after Tischler "recognized me and ordered the crowd to chase me down the street."

Confirming Tischler's detention Sunday, a New York City Police Department spokesman said that charges of inciting a riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the incident surrounding Kornbluh are pending.

"The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold 'Heshy' Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn," the department said on Twitter.

CNN has made multiple attempts to reach Tischler, but has not received a response.
Tischler is a candidate for New York City Council, a supporter of President Trump, and an outspoken critic of social distancing restrictions, according to posts on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

https://twitter.com/HeshyTischlerNY/status/1314625177565704192
There have been protests and riots for the past several days now, and Tischler's arrest adds fuel to the fire.

Tischler is running in the 48th City Council District.

What an absolute piece of crap. Bonus: he's not even Hasidic. I think he must be Modern Orthodox because he speaks Yiddish but he doesn't follow most of the traditions the Ultras do. Yet he still feels comfortable rallying them to protest against safety measures that will help them avoid more of the the deaths they experienced at the peak of the outbreak.

I remember Ray Goldfield was applauding him for leading the playground chain destructions back in the spring. Looks pretty bad now in retrospect.

I hadn't even heard of this goon until he started his riots this past week. I remember saluting Simcha Felder and Kalman Yeger for undoing the Mayor's illegal, ethnically targeted selected closing of parks and playgrounds in the summer. If he was there, he wasn't making a scene yet.

Obviously this idiot need to be prosecuted for his assault on a respected Jewish journalist, but the best way to prevent more idiots like him from emerging is to remove the man responsible for creating a hostile and dangerous atmosphere for religious Jews in NYC.

Hahahahaha this is delusional. You justify violence by blaming it on the mayor, and you still support their playground stunt because you care more about dunking on him than about adherence to safety measures.

Hogan's a bit too progressive for you.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/harold-heshy-tischler-custody-orthodox-jewish-protests-new-york/index.html

Outspoken protester Harold "Heshy" Tischler was taken into custody Sunday evening in connection with an alleged assault during protests against new anti-coronavirus restrictions in an Orthodox Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York police say.

Some members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested in the Borough Park neighborhood for multiple nights last week in response to the measures, which limit gatherings in houses of worship in areas identified as Covid-19 clusters.
Jewish Insider reporter Jacob Kornbluh claimed on a verified Twitter account that during protests Wednesday night he was brutally assaulted after Tischler "recognized me and ordered the crowd to chase me down the street."

Confirming Tischler's detention Sunday, a New York City Police Department spokesman said that charges of inciting a riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the incident surrounding Kornbluh are pending.

"The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold 'Heshy' Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn," the department said on Twitter.

CNN has made multiple attempts to reach Tischler, but has not received a response.
Tischler is a candidate for New York City Council, a supporter of President Trump, and an outspoken critic of social distancing restrictions, according to posts on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

https://twitter.com/HeshyTischlerNY/status/1314625177565704192
There have been protests and riots for the past several days now, and Tischler's arrest adds fuel to the fire.

Tischler is running in the 48th City Council District.

What an absolute piece of crap. Bonus: he's not even Hasidic. I think he must be Modern Orthodox because he speaks Yiddish but he doesn't follow most of the traditions the Ultras do. Yet he still feels comfortable rallying them to protest against safety measures that will help them avoid more of the the deaths they experienced at the peak of the outbreak.

I remember Ray Goldfield was applauding him for leading the playground chain destructions back in the spring. Looks pretty bad now in retrospect.

I hadn't even heard of this goon until he started his riots this past week. I remember saluting Simcha Felder and Kalman Yeger for undoing the Mayor's illegal, ethnically targeted selected closing of parks and playgrounds in the summer. If he was there, he wasn't making a scene yet.

Obviously this idiot need to be prosecuted for his assault on a respected Jewish journalist, but the best way to prevent more idiots like him from emerging is to remove the man responsible for creating a hostile and dangerous atmosphere for religious Jews in NYC.

Hahahahaha this is delusional. You justify violence by blaming it on the mayor, and you still support their playground stunt because you care more about dunking on him than about adherence to safety measures.

Hogan's a bit too progressive for you.

"Riots are the language of the unheard", I thought,

The Mayor certainly didn't seem very concerned with violence when Jews were getting assaulted on the streets daily pre-COVID. Almost as if it's not street violence he cares about, it's Jews acting like they have rights.

Cuomo seems to want to get outbreaks under control. De Blasio wants us to know we have no power or rights in his city. Only one of those goals is workable.

[GALeftist]

C'mon, now, do you really think that de Blasio would be treating this differently if it was a different religious group recklessly endangering lives? Just because you're Jewish doesn't give you a pass to kill people.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

C'mon, now, do you really think that de Blasio would be treating this differently if it was a different religious group recklessly endangering lives? Just because you're Jewish doesn't give you a pass to kill people.

There's an entire lengthy thread in USGD about how De Blasio has been treating the Jewish community very differently, down to straight-up illegal enforcement of laws that had been suspended selectively against this community or were never laws at all, in the aftermath of allowing a full year of violent attacks against Hasidic Jews to go on uninterrupted.

[lfromnj]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/harold-heshy-tischler-custody-orthodox-jewish-protests-new-york/index.html

Outspoken protester Harold "Heshy" Tischler was taken into custody Sunday evening in connection with an alleged assault during protests against new anti-coronavirus restrictions in an Orthodox Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York police say.

Some members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested in the Borough Park neighborhood for multiple nights last week in response to the measures, which limit gatherings in houses of worship in areas identified as Covid-19 clusters.
Jewish Insider reporter Jacob Kornbluh claimed on a verified Twitter account that during protests Wednesday night he was brutally assaulted after Tischler "recognized me and ordered the crowd to chase me down the street."

Confirming Tischler's detention Sunday, a New York City Police Department spokesman said that charges of inciting a riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the incident surrounding Kornbluh are pending.

"The New York City Police Department Warrant Squad has taken Harold 'Heshy' Tischler into custody. He will be charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist that took place on October 7, 2020 in Brooklyn," the department said on Twitter.

CNN has made multiple attempts to reach Tischler, but has not received a response.
Tischler is a candidate for New York City Council, a supporter of President Trump, and an outspoken critic of social distancing restrictions, according to posts on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

https://twitter.com/HeshyTischlerNY/status/1314625177565704192
There have been protests and riots for the past several days now, and Tischler's arrest adds fuel to the fire.

Tischler is running in the 48th City Council District.

What an absolute piece of crap. Bonus: he's not even Hasidic. I think he must be Modern Orthodox because he speaks Yiddish but he doesn't follow most of the traditions the Ultras do. Yet he still feels comfortable rallying them to protest against safety measures that will help them avoid more of the the deaths they experienced at the peak of the outbreak.

I remember Ray Goldfield was applauding him for leading the playground chain destructions back in the spring. Looks pretty bad now in retrospect.

I hadn't even heard of this goon until he started his riots this past week. I remember saluting Simcha Felder and Kalman Yeger for undoing the Mayor's illegal, ethnically targeted selected closing of parks and playgrounds in the summer. If he was there, he wasn't making a scene yet.

Obviously this idiot need to be prosecuted for his assault on a respected Jewish journalist, but the best way to prevent more idiots like him from emerging is to remove the man responsible for creating a hostile and dangerous atmosphere for religious Jews in NYC.

Hahahahaha this is delusional. You justify violence by blaming it on the mayor, and you still support their playground stunt because you care more about dunking on him than about adherence to safety measures.

Hogan's a bit too progressive for you.

Hogan reopened private schools when the health commissioner of Montgomery county forced them to close.

[Crane]

C'mon, now, do you really think that de Blasio would be treating this differently if it was a different religious group recklessly endangering lives? Just because you're Jewish doesn't give you a pass to kill people.

There's an entire lengthy thread in USGD about how De Blasio has been treating the Jewish community very differently, down to straight-up illegal enforcement of laws that had been suspended selectively against this community or were never laws at all, in the aftermath of allowing a full year of violent attacks against Hasidic Jews to go on uninterrupted.

Most of which was outright falsehood. Here, read this:

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-here-we-go-again-ultra-orthodox-covid-20200930-xpvxcetmwnhojgg7adt3ysco5i-story.html

Hogan reopened private schools when the health commissioner of Montgomery county forced them to close.

Ah, I stand corrected, then. Perfect candidate for him.

[Crane]

...Anyway....

Interesting article here, found on reddit. This solidifies why I will never support Adams for mayor.

https://rossbarkan.substack.com/p/will-eric-adams-apologize

Key excerpts:

The second point is worth addressing on its own, especially in the context of the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic. We will get there shortly. But first, and more crucially, there is the question of rent. Every politician—liberal, moderate, leftist, even conservative—has long lamented New York’s escalating cost of living. The 2010s, which began with Michael Bloomberg’s third term, were a new Gilded Age for New York, with skyrocketing rents and yawning income inequality. It was the decade of New York as a “luxury product,” with soaring glass box condos invading the skylines of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Hudson Yards, a tax-subsidized playground for the ultrawealthy and various corporate brands, finally opened, embodying this era of shortsighted excess. Now mostly vacant and costing the city obscene amounts of money, it will stand as a testament to neoliberal economic development at its most ludicrous. Beyond the far West Side of Manhattan, pressure on rent seemed to exist virtually everywhere. Neighborhoods like Bushwick and Long Island City and Sunnyside and Inwood, once largely working class enclaves, became hubs for the upper middle class and the wealthy. Each year, rents steadily rose. The median city rent increased 35 percent between 2010 and 2020, with certain neighborhoods seeing far higher spikes. This 35 percent increase came on top of the gentrification already occurring in the 2000s, as the city’s population grew and the economy rebounded from 9/11. For much of the 2010s, New York was particularly attractive to foreign investors, increasing rents and the purchase prices of apartments.

Why? Eric Adams, who is a landlord himself, and Adriano Espaillat should have some idea. They may not just want to talk about it. Both were former Democratic state senators who enjoyed cozy relationships with the breakaway conference of senators, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, that helped keep Republicans in the majority for much of the 2010s. Adams’ successor in the Senate, Jesse Hamilton, joined the IDC with Adams’ full endorsement. Espaillat’s successor, with his full-throated backing, joined the IDC too. Espaillat was close enough to the IDC’s leader, Jeff Klein, to happily accept donations from the IDC and Klein himself. All of this matters because Republicans could not have controlled the Senate without the IDC, which had as many as eight lawmakers before most of them were defeated in primaries in 2018. The Republican conference, over the course of the decade and long before, had rejected repeated attempts to strengthen tenant and rent laws that could have forestalled the housing displacement that had metastasized last decade—the very displacement that Adams and Espaillat railed against. In 2019, with the IDC defeated and the Republicans chased from power, the Democrat-controlled State Senate overwhelmingly strengthened these housing laws. Most importantly, over the objections of Republicans and quiet resistance from Governor Andrew Cuomo, they ended vacancy decontrol.

There are several causes of gentrification, which is best understood as housing displacement with attendant cultural shifts, some more relevant than others. One major trigger, too often gone unmentioned, was the New York City Council’s 1994 vote to institute vacancy decontrol for the city’s rent-stabilized housing stock. The state government, where Republicans controlled the State Senate and the Governor’s Mansion at the time, rubberstamped the law change. Until 1994, the nearly 900,000 apartments that were rent-stabilized had to remain forever in the program, their rent increases capped annually. For tenants, this meant a certain level of comfort and predictability because the Rent Guidelines Board, which decided how much rent would be raised annually, would usually vote for miniscule increases. The city’s median rent in 1994 was below $600 and apartments could be had in neighborhoods like the Lower East Side for around $552 a month. For landlords, the long sought goal has always been the end of all rent regulations in New York City: every apartment on the free market, the rent as high as the wealthiest tenant might pay.

[KaiserDave]

Adams is IDC affiliated? Hmmm

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/exclusive-carlos-menchaca-confirms-mayoral-campaign.html

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca confirmed to City & State that he is running for mayor in the 2021 Democratic primary and will officially announce his candidacy on Thursday. As has been previously reported, Menchaca has filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the announcement has been widely anticipated since Menchaca hinted at it on Twitter earlier this month.

Menchaca, who has recently drawn attention for defeating a proposed rezoning of Industry City, represents a diverse, largely Latino district spanning Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights and slivers of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. He is the first Mexican-American elected official in New York state and, according to his website, he is also the first openly gay elected office holder from Brooklyn.

What are Menchaca's chances in the primary?

[Crane]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/exclusive-carlos-menchaca-confirms-mayoral-campaign.html

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca confirmed to City & State that he is running for mayor in the 2021 Democratic primary and will officially announce his candidacy on Thursday. As has been previously reported, Menchaca has filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the announcement has been widely anticipated since Menchaca hinted at it on Twitter earlier this month.

Menchaca, who has recently drawn attention for defeating a proposed rezoning of Industry City, represents a diverse, largely Latino district spanning Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights and slivers of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. He is the first Mexican-American elected official in New York state and, according to his website, he is also the first openly gay elected office holder from Brooklyn.

What are Menchaca's chances in the primary?

I've always been a fan of his. Although I don't think he's a particularly visible politician here. It will be an uphill battle but his candidacy has my interest.

[KaiserDave]

Menchaca is interesting, but barring a surprise surge he has no chance.

[Senator Incitatus]

Hasids will turn out at 100% and elect Heshy Tischler the next Mayor of New York City.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/exclusive-carlos-menchaca-confirms-mayoral-campaign.html

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca confirmed to City & State that he is running for mayor in the 2021 Democratic primary and will officially announce his candidacy on Thursday. As has been previously reported, Menchaca has filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the announcement has been widely anticipated since Menchaca hinted at it on Twitter earlier this month.

Menchaca, who has recently drawn attention for defeating a proposed rezoning of Industry City, represents a diverse, largely Latino district spanning Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights and slivers of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. He is the first Mexican-American elected official in New York state and, according to his website, he is also the first openly gay elected office holder from Brooklyn.

What are Menchaca's chances in the primary?

He'll be the one candidate explicitly running to De Blasio's left and is likely to get endorsements from AOC and other far-left city politicians as it goes on, so he'll be a factor for a while. Good chance he even makes the runoff if the field doesn't coalesce, but he'll likely lose a one-on-one battle with Stringer, Donovan, Adams, or any of the other big guns.

[Crane]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/exclusive-carlos-menchaca-confirms-mayoral-campaign.html

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca confirmed to City & State that he is running for mayor in the 2021 Democratic primary and will officially announce his candidacy on Thursday. As has been previously reported, Menchaca has filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the announcement has been widely anticipated since Menchaca hinted at it on Twitter earlier this month.

Menchaca, who has recently drawn attention for defeating a proposed rezoning of Industry City, represents a diverse, largely Latino district spanning Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights and slivers of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. He is the first Mexican-American elected official in New York state and, according to his website, he is also the first openly gay elected office holder from Brooklyn.

What are Menchaca's chances in the primary?

He'll be the one candidate explicitly running to De Blasio's left and is likely to get endorsements from AOC and other far-left city politicians as it goes on, so he'll be a factor for a while. Good chance he even makes the runoff if the field doesn't coalesce, but he'll likely lose a one-on-one battle with Stringer, Donovan, Adams, or any of the other big guns.

Adams is a joke. His connection to the real estate racketeers and the IDC will come out if his candidacy gets any traction at all.

[warandwar]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/exclusive-carlos-menchaca-confirms-mayoral-campaign.html

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca confirmed to City & State that he is running for mayor in the 2021 Democratic primary and will officially announce his candidacy on Thursday. As has been previously reported, Menchaca has filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the announcement has been widely anticipated since Menchaca hinted at it on Twitter earlier this month.

Menchaca, who has recently drawn attention for defeating a proposed rezoning of Industry City, represents a diverse, largely Latino district spanning Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights and slivers of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. He is the first Mexican-American elected official in New York state and, according to his website, he is also the first openly gay elected office holder from Brooklyn.

What are Menchaca's chances in the primary?

He'll be the one candidate explicitly running to De Blasio's left and is likely to get endorsements from AOC and other far-left city politicians as it goes on, so he'll be a factor for a while. Good chance he even makes the runoff if the field doesn't coalesce, but he'll likely lose a one-on-one battle with Stringer, Donovan, Adams, or any of the other big guns.

Donovan is not a "big gun" and we don't have runoffs anymore (bc of Ranked Choice Voting).

If by explicit, you mean "voice opinions to BdB's left," then I'd say a good number of the field, including Blaz's annointed successor, Maya Wiley, will run to his left. If by actual content of your program, I'd imagine they are all going to be fairly mushy middle. I think Menchaca actually has a good chance at getting the hard left. His no on IC is a big deal and Sunset Park is turning into a real center for the Left here. And Stringer is an obvious fake, especially when it comes to real estate, which is the number one issue for much on the City. So he could do quite well, as you say.

It is quite hard to handicap this right now. No one really kniws what RCV is going to do (and i'd estimate 80% of voters do not even know we've switched to the system).

Oh and Ray, I work for parks. We didn't selectively close playgrounds. We closed all playgrounds. Most people just hopped the fence. No targeting of midwood, you could just gone to Marine Park!

[Suburbia]

After last night's election, I say that NYC Democrats should choose Eric Adams and Adams will win the mayoralty.

He would be the second black mayor, but he was a Black police officer. He actually dealt with police brutality. He decided to be a NYPD Black cop to change the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)

I don't think a woman can win the mayoralty. Pat Lynch is the most important unelected political kingmaker in New York State. His police union is powerful. Adams can handle him. de Blasio couldn't.

[Crane]

After last night's election, I say that NYC Democrats should choose Eric Adams and Adams will win the mayoralty.

He would be the second black mayor, but he was a Black police officer. He actually dealt with police brutality. He decided to be a NYPD Black cop to change the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)

I don't think a woman can win the mayoralty. Pat Lynch is the most important unelected political kingmaker in New York State. His police union is powerful. Adams can handle him. de Blasio couldn't.

Adams will be called out because he supported IDC and landlords, caused rents to spike

[Crane]

I'm liking Antonio Reynoso for a related race, Brooklyn borough president. Progressives are lining up behind him.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-cynthia-nixon-antonio-reynoso-brooklyn-borough-president-20201110-3njuc5it5rfrzp4c5u7bfnfqly-story.html

[Suburbia]

After last night's election, I say that NYC Democrats should choose Eric Adams and Adams will win the mayoralty.

He would be the second black mayor, but he was a Black police officer. He actually dealt with police brutality. He decided to be a NYPD Black cop to change the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)

I don't think a woman can win the mayoralty. Pat Lynch is the most important unelected political kingmaker in New York State. His police union is powerful. Adams can handle him. de Blasio couldn't.

Adams will be called out because he supported IDC and landlords, caused rents to spike

We'll see. He's the only one who can stand up to Lynch and the PBAs....all the others would fold

[Suburbia]

Max Rose is actually considering a mayoral run

He's too moderate for Democrats.

Al Sharpton and AOC would have to vet him

https://news.yahoo.com/max-rose-considering-mayoral-campaign-nyc-193511355.html

[brucejoel99]

Ironically enough, his congressional ad-blitz may actually provide a mayoral candidacy with a potential COVID-era advantage:

https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1329148700883640323

[KaiserDave]

Most everyone I've spoken to things his ads were lame. But that's just the people I've spoken to.

[Suburbia]

I don't think a Republican has a chance here

Giuliani and Trump severed the NYGOP brand here

Giuliani would be chased out of NYC these days

A Republican could win in the 2030s, maybe