{"id":195418,"date":"2025-09-03T00:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195418\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:17:30","slug":"i-cannot-spend-more-public-money-on-futile-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195418\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I cannot spend more public money on futile hope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Walden has suspended his campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/nyc-mayoral-election-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City mayor<\/a>, his camp announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor months I have been steadfast in my view that, unless there is a one-on-one race in November, a Trojan Horse will take control of City Hall. I cannot spend more public money in the futile hope I am the one called to battle,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jimfornyc\/status\/1962972197611569196\">the beyond-long-shot independent tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A rep for the former federal prosecutor\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post, but a\u00a0source close to the situation blamed the suspension on \u201cpersonal problems.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37002065\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jim-walden-nyc-mayoral-candidate-103679583.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Walden, NYC mayoral candidate, speaking at a town hall.\" class=\"wp-image-37002065\"  \/>Independent candidate Jim Walden suspended campaign for NYC mayoral election, his campaign announced on Tuesday. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll showed\u00a0Walden garnering just 3% of the vote in the still-crowded mayoral race.<\/p>\n<p>He will still have to square up his campaign finances by paying back public matching funds, according to Campaign Finance spokesman Tim Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Walden\u00a0raised $1.1 million and received more than $2.3 million in public funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you received public funds and you drop out of the race, you have to return the matching funds,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>Walden only has about $1.24 million on hand.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37002021\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/110565429.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Walden announces withdrawal from NYC mayoral race.\" class=\"wp-image-37002021\"  \/>Walden posted his campaign suspension on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of internal bulls\u2013t in this campaign to start,\u201d the source said\u00a0 after the announcement, noting turmoil in his personal life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The married candidate will\u00a0pay staffers through the end of the week, according to a campaign source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Walden has suspended his campaign for New York City mayor, his camp announced Tuesday. \u201cFor months I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9117,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-195418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mayoral-race","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115137494825924106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195418","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=195418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}