{"id":132504,"date":"2025-08-09T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132504\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:40:10","slug":"chicago-mayors-incompetent-leadership-a-red-flag-for-anyone-supporting-socialist-zohran-mamdani-for-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132504\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago mayor&#8217;s &#8216;incompetent leadership&#8217; a red flag for anyone supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\u2019s budget woes under far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson should serve as warning to New Yorkers planning to back socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess,\u201d ex-Gov <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andrewcuomo\/status\/1953871915115745697?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Cuomo wrote on X Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen I believe in government that works,\u201d boasted Cuomo, a registered Democrat who is running for NYC mayor as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let\u2019s do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Zohran Mamdani victory in the race for City Hall could land the Big Apple in the same boat as Chicago, which is facing looming budget shortfalls under far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson. Kyle Stevens\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s indirect dig at the Democratic nominee and frontrunner to win this year\u2019s NYC mayoral race came in response to Johnson earlier this week saying Chicago needs to deal with looming budget shortfalls even as it\u2019s education, housing, health care and transportation systems are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/chicagos-budget-shortfall-puts-spotlight-mamdanis-socialism-agenda-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cwoefully underfunded.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/chicago-city-council-blocks-property-tax-increase-brandon-johnson-fbe49cc2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> editorial board dubbed Johnson \u201cAmerica\u2019s worst mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo is running for mayor of New York City as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani. SARAH YENESEL\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Wall Street Journal editorial board dubbed Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson \u201cAmerica\u2019s worst mayor.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, a Queens state assemblyman, is proposing a series of pie-in-the-sky proposals that his critics doubt he\u2019ll find the funding or support to pull off, including eliminating bus fares and setting up government-run grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/chicagos-budget-shortfall-puts-spotlight-mamdanis-socialism-agenda-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fox News <\/a>that \u201ctrusting Andrew Cuomo to address New York\u2019s affordability crisis is the equivalent of tasking an arsonist with putting out a fire \u2014 he created this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s budget woes under far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson should serve as warning to New Yorkers planning to back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,31361,960,1258,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-132504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-budgets","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-funding","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000510128645649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}