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[Julie Menin @JulieMenin]

Tonight, we had a resounding victory by electing Carl Wilson as our next City Council Member.

Carl has been a friend and colleague for many years, and I couldn’t have been more proud to endorse him in this election.

He built an unbelievable coalition that inspired voters across his district, and I can’t wait to welcome him as our next Council Member!

[Sara Eisen @SaraEisen]

I asked Senator Warren why she campaigned with Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner and called him “my kinda man!”… when he had a chest tattoo of a Nazi symbol, allegedly said people concerned about rape should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?” And also reportedly wrote “I dig it” next to a video online of Hamas terrorists murdering several Israeli soldiers

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[Republican Problems. @RepublicanProbl]

@umichvoter However this shakes out it is what it is but I am one of 7 Harris voters that I know that crossed over. She’s way too extreme

[Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG]

I’m confused. Defensive military aid stops rockets aimed at innocent children and families. So, why oppose it?

We provide defensive military aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, etc. @AOC Should we cut all of them off? Or is that your policy just for the Jews?

[Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG]

These comments are not only wrong, but they are dangerous and will feed more antisemitism in our country.

Is it really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

So it turns out that the sitting local Democratic congressman in Silicon Valley, @RoKhanna, is the most un-entrepreneurial, creative or innovative person possible.

He is:

1) In favor of California’s Property Seizure tax that he calls a “Billionaire” Tax. It’s already led to half of California’s Billionaire wealth to flee the state which will leave the middle class to pay for the lost revenues.

2) Despite this, he then teamed up with Bernie Sanders to propose an additional national 5% wealth tax to spend on God knows what.

3) Despite all the virtue signaling on inequality, he is also one of the most prolific traders in Congress where just last year he traded $55.7m of stock. With everything he learns in Congress to help him, he beat the market by 13%.

Ro’s ambition is what matters most to him and he will flop from dumb idea to dumb idea if he thinks it will serve his broader political ambitions.

Currently that means being a quasi socialist to win favor with the extreme left of his Party.

He doesn’t deserve to represent Silicon Valley and I hope he loses badly in his re-election.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@SecRubio, these students should be expelled from @Columbia. And if they are here on visas, deported.

In no world should they be permitted to attend a taxpayer-funded university with their tuition funded with government guaranteed student loans.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Dude, just clean up the trash.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Let’s see who grieves for that garbage.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

So let me get this straight. You support the Khamanei regime that killed 38,000+ protesters and maimed hundreds of thousands more. A regime that has repeatedly called for Death to America and has killed thousands of our servicemen and citizens. One that has taken away women’s rights and freedoms for the Iranian people.

And then you call our efforts to destroy the evildoers a catastrophic escalation.

You also support those who attack our police force. You take the side of the criminals rather than the victims of violent actors in our city.

How is it that you can’t differentiate between good and evil?

Why is this so hard for you?

[Lizzy Savetsky @LizzySavetsky]

Just a little neighborly gift for Spike Lee 🫶

[Julie Menin @JulieMenin]

I’m honored to have the support of a supermajority of my colleagues to be the next Speaker of the @NYCCouncil.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

After 9/11, New York elected Michael Bloomberg: a competent, non-ideological, self-made billionaire.

Bloomberg—despite, or perhaps because of, his lack of previous government experience—went on to be a highly effective mayor. He balanced the city’s budget, even in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis. He oversaw record low crime rates. He modernized city operations; opened over 100 charter schools; supported major redevelopment projects, from the High Line to Hudson Yards to the World Trade Center.

Unfortunately, New York voters are now on the verge of electing Zohran Mamdani, a candidate who, in every way possible, is the polar opposite of Michael Bloomberg.

Where Bloomberg was self-made (his dad was a bookkeeper, his mom was a secretary, and he worked his way through college), Mamdani has spent his life riding the coattails of his wealthy and influential parents (his mom is a prominent filmmaker, his dad a Columbia professor). Despite the significant privilege into which he was born, Mamdani has few—if any—accomplishments to show for it.

Where Bloomberg spent his career in the private sector, building one of the most important companies in the finance industry and creating tens of thousands of jobs, Mamdani has literally never held a job outside of politics. He’s never had to manage a budget, let alone be responsible for payroll.

Where Bloomberg was data-driven and dispassionate, Zohran Mamdani is ideologically captured and impulsive. His interviews and speeches are a hodgepodge of social-media talking points from the Democratic Socialists of America, Students for Justice in Palestine, and other fringe leftist groups. His policy positions—rent freezes, free busses, city-run grocery stores, green infrastructure, reduced policing—are more than simply not data-driven; they’ve been categorically disproven by mountains of data and evidence from failed leftist policy experiments in other cities, time and time again.

Zohran Mamdani is the anti-Bloomberg. His background, his character, his temperament, and his platform are the exact opposite of Michael Bloomberg’s.

And the results of his administration will be as well.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

Addressing mayoral race, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue says Mamdani’s 2023 remark that NYPD’s boots are ‘laced by the IDF’ “crosses the line clearly into antisemitism”

“I fear living in a city…where anti-Zionist rhetoric is normalized and contagious.”

[Mike Bloomberg @MikeBloomberg]

Four months ago I endorsed @AndrewCuomo because I thought his management experience and government know-how made him the best choice for New Yorkers. I still do. And today, with early voting underway, I wanted to reiterate my support for Andrew Cuomo. Being Mayor of New York City is the second toughest job in America, and the next mayor will face immense challenges. Andrew Cuomo has the experience and toughness to stand up for New Yorkers and get things done. I hope you will join me in supporting him.

[Tom Suozzi @Tom_Suozzi]

I’m a Democratic Capitalist, not a Democratic Socialist. I endorse Andrew Cuomo. I can not back a declared socialist with a thin resume to run the most complex city in America. We need leaders who will fight crime, not undermine the police. Who will create jobs, not harm the economy.  Who will keep taxes down, not make it more expensive for middle class families to live here.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor

[2WAY @2waytvapp]

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign may face a “devastating piece of opposition” research at the 11th hour, says @MarkHalperin. “My informed spidey sense is that we’re going to see at least one more piece of pretty significant opposition research dropped in this race, here at the end, that will potentially shake things up,” he says. “If it’s what I’m told it is,” it could affect the race’s outcome. #zohranfornyc @2waytvapp

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Mamdani keeps using me as a foil in his campaign stump speeches and interviews.

What @ZohranKMamdani doesn’t understand is that I am not opposed to his candidacy because my taxes will go up.

Mamdani is not the right mayor because he is a socialist with no experience running anything. He does not respect the @NYPD. Closing Rikers will make NYC a much more dangerous place. Rent freezes won’t reduce the cost of living for all but a select few New Yorkers and only temporarily. City-run supermarkets will have empty shelves. Free buses will become homeless shelters. And his anti-business policies including higher corporate taxes will kill NYC jobs and cause companies to flee.

And he also stole the @nyknicks logo.

It is not about me, Zohran. It’s about what’s best for all New Yorkers.

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[Fil Aronshtein @FilArons]

My mom narrowly survived 9/11. Several of her friends and coworkers were tragically killed. I don’t normally share this level of detail on Twitter, but given what’s I’m seeing, I feel compelled to share her story (with her permission).

My mom, a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union who came to New York in 1976, came to this country to escape persecution and for a better life. As it turns out, Socialists and Communists hate Jews. Shocker.

My mom started working at the World Trade Center as a Mainframe Programmer at Morgan Stanley in 1987 (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on 9/11).

My mom was working on the 67th floor of the 2nd Building during the 1993 WTC bombing. Thankfully, she survived, though it left a lasting mark on her.

My mom was working on the 56th floor of the 2nd Building during 9/11. They had just moved her team to that floor a few weeks prior. She had finished a meeting and was working when she looked out the 56th floor window and saw that the 1st Building had been hit. She thought it was an electrical explosion or something since they were always doing some work in the buildings. She saw paper and debris flying everywhere, and thick smoke pouring out. No one really knew what was going on, but remembering the 1993 bombing, her gut instinct was to get out of there.

My mom grabbed her small pouch that had some spare cash in it, grabbed a few of her coworkers, and they started going down the building. When they had reached the 22nd floor, the 2nd plane hit the 2nd Building. She knew she was on the 22nd floor because of a massive column in the center of the building, and they felt the whole building shake. Her and the people with her began sprinting down the stairs to get out.

My mom didn’t know what was going on, but seeing the smoke and knowing that it was toxic to breathe in, wanted to get as far away as possible. She just started walking, trying to get to Queens. She made her way through Chinatown, and out of a gut instinct, went into a store and bought a disposable camera with the emergency money in her pouch. She took many photos of the buildings, and was able to get them developed. I don’t know think any documentaries have ever gotten ahold of them, but I’ll share a few here.

My mom kept walking. Walking to Queens. By the time she had made it to the 59th St Bridge, someone she was passing by told her that The Twin Towers had collapsed. “What do you mean? I was just at work a second ago — that doesn’t make any sense.”

My mom was ironically, in 2006, one of many laid off as Morgan Stanley offshored many of their programming jobs to India.

My mom, every year on 9/11, remembers. Every year on 9/11, my dad would tell me: “wish your mother a Happy 2nd Birthday”. As a kid, I never really understood, but my dad would say, “it’s a day to celebrate that she survived, to be here with us.”

My mom survived. Not one, but two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I am forever blessed and count myself as one truly lucky New Yorker. Many were not. Everyone knows someone.

9/11, for New York City, was a New Founding. A transformative moment. This tragedy, and our subsequent grit and tenacity, is woven into the DNA of every real New Yorker.

For someone running for MAYOR of New York City to have such little understanding of this core truth, to go as far as to try to leverage it in a POLITICAL COUNTER-MESSAGE OF SHAMING AND RALLYING, is to admit that they are fundamentally disconnected from the reality of what it means to be a New Yorker and thus, be Mayor of New York City.

If you’re a New Yorker, you know this to be true. You know we cannot have Mamdani in office. If we want our city to continue to survive and thrive, we simply cannot.