It is difficult to know which is the most pathetic: the harvest of candidates for mayor of this year, or the city’s system to choose one of them.
On Tuesday, the campaign financing board held almost $ 3 million in public correspondence funds major Mayor Wannabe, Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
He gave the greatest amount of cash, $ 3.8 million, the radical socialist Zohran Mamdani, who is far behind in the polls.
Why hold Cuomo’s funds?
The Board cites a “high percentage (20% or more) or documentation errors for contributions” and its lack of presentation of presenting a “personal financial dissemination”.
Yes, the former Gov campaign is a disaster: in recent days, it also issued a housing plan full of typographic errors and confused twists that seemed generated by AI, and He wrote badly the names of the union leaders in an advertisement of their backs.
Everything that adds to the horrible album of Cuomo as the government “kill the grandmothers and pinch Fannies”, as the deceased great Bob Mcmanus once expressed.
(Not to mention the gloomy legacy of Cuomo, from the tolls of “congestion” to the signing of all these “criminal justice reforms” in the law).
Perhaps the lost funds are Karma for the cuomo of $ 5 million “won” for their book written by the staff about the “leadership” of Covid.
Or the $ 60 mill In taxpayers funds to cover their legal invoices.
Even so, despite the healthy leadership of Cuomo in the surveys (a reflection on the horrible alternatives), Zilch obtains in public funds, at least for now.
Mayor Eric Adams is also governed, with the CFB citing the charges more than the It already dropped.
He won a moment of coincident funds unless Adams Appel, which until now has not been able to do.
Hizzer has not submitted his declaration of personal dissemination either.
That leaves Mamdani, at 33, famous mainly for an edge of the border with the Tsar of the Border, for insisting on socialism really does Work and for deeply despising Israel, as the fugitive winner in the draw of coincident funds.
The candidate of democratic socialists of America has raised $ 6.7 million, much more than the second place Brad Lander (which also has DSA ties).
Talk about iony.
A habit of anti -capitalist Israel that is executed in the capital of capitalism and the home of more Jews than any other city that squeezes taxpayers more than applicants to the main applicants such as Cuomo and Adams.
Socialism is already putting action: our money can pay for your campaign.
Everything is part of the Gotham public campaign financing system that cost the taxpayers more than $ 14 million this year in corresponding funds from 8 to 1, and the members of the Board not chosen arbitrarily decide who understands it.
In 2013, the Board similarly rejected the public cash for the offer of Mayor of John Lui, closed its campaign and paved the way for the Nightmare of Bill de Blasio’s victory.
These are the bleak results of a system that allegedly had to give the democracy of the city play field.
Perhaps the public will one day have the opportunity to retire from this transversion and let politicians discover how to finance their own campaigns.