Mayor Michelle Wu should be forced to explain her relationship with extremist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a socialist who has proposed $10 billion in new taxes and alarmed Jewish leaders and some Democrats by refusing to condemn antisemitic slogans.<\/p>\n
Mamdani has said he considers Wu a role model who has inspired him, calling her the most effective Democrat in the country.<\/p>\n
According to the Boston Globe, Wu recently spoke to Mamdani and is \u201cquietly supportive\u201d of him. In other words, she doesn\u2019t want voters to know?<\/p>\n
\u201cI just congratulated him and thanked him for running such an inspiring campaign focused on real people and real changes that are needed to improve the daily lives of his constituents,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s inspiring to see that someone who ran a campaign based on a joyful, positive vision of getting things done that matter to people win out over millions of dollars of negative attack ads and a much darker vision of what cities are and what they stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joyful message? Like what, \u2018globalize the intifada,\u2019 a phrase Mamdani has refused to condemn \u2013 or, replace the police department with social workers, offer free child care to everyone, free gender transitions to minors and a tax on millionaires?<\/p>\n
The Globe not surprisingly neglected to ask Wu whether she agrees with some of Mamdani\u2019s extremist socialist positions.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old Mamdani won the Democratic primary last week, beating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and is in line to take the mayor\u2019s office in the general election unless a strong opponent comes forward.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, Mamdani said he doesn\u2019t believe billionaires should exist and has vowed to slap a 2% tax on corporations and those earning more than $1 million a year.<\/p>\n
He also once again refused to speak out against the phrase, \u2018globalize the intifada,\u2019 which Jewish leaders widely consider an antisemitic call to violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech,\u201d he said in an interview Sunday with \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d \u201cMy concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s words should alarm anyone concerned about antisemitism, but Wu had nothing but praise for him and his campaign.<\/p>\n
The Boston mayor \u2013 who has tried hard to convince voters she\u2019s not a radical leftist or socialist \u2013 should be pinned down on what exactly she likes about Mamdani and his far left platform.<\/p>\n
Will she campaign for him or endorse him?<\/p>\n
Is she outraged by Mamdani\u2019s refusal to condemn \u2018globalize the intifada\u2019?<\/p>\n
Is Wu giving advice to Mamdani? Is he giving her advice?<\/p>\n
Does she believe billionaires should have the right to exist?<\/p>\n
Would she label Mamdani an extremist?<\/p>\n
Does Wu, who tried and failed to implement a form of rent control in Boston, support Mamdani\u2019s promise to freeze rents?<\/p>\n
What would a second Wu term really be like? Will she feel unburdened to propose socialist ideas like government-run grocery stores, as Mamdani did in his recent campaign?<\/p>\n
The Globe column about the relationship was an attempt to put a shine on it, but she should not be able to get away with vague statements about Mamdani\u2019s positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Michelle Wu should be forced to explain her relationship with extremist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,2731,25253,25254,1370,2739,25255,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,16837,80,7836,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-29569","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-boston","11":"tag-boston-city-hall","12":"tag-joe-battenfeld","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-massachusetts","15":"tag-michelle-wu","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-opinion","24":"tag-opinion-columnists","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-suffolk-county","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114777446492455047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569","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=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}