Mammani and Brad Lander prove that they know how to say “no” lawless president and his war – while the competitor Andrew Kuom stumbles.
After President Trump ordered American military attack on Iran on Saturday night, protest The Democrats and a handful of Republicans in Washington were immediate. US ALCOSIO CARTES representative (D-NY) spokesman announced“The presidential switcher on Iran’s bombing without permission is a serious violation of the Constitution and powers in Congress. He was impulsively risked to launch a war that could make us by generation. This is absolutely and obviously a reason to impeach.” Former Chairman of the Judicial Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) – Note“The President’s decision on Iran’s bombing was grossly unconstitutional, because only Congress has power to proclaim the war. The president will undoubtedly lead to many American, Israeli and Iranian deaths and should be condemned in the strongest conditions.” Even the New York Hacki Jeffries, usually a cautious leader of a democratic minority in the House ,, mottled The fact that “President Trump has misleading the country about his intentions did not address the permission in Congress for the use of military force and the risk of US confusion in a potentially catastrophic war in the Middle East.”
Akasio Cartes, Nadler and Jeffries were not the only New York Democrats. Two leading contenders for the chief mayor on Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, made reliable condemnation of Trump’s move, signaling their determination to push away against the lawless president. But as a result of the fighting in the race, the former governor of New York Andrew Kuom could not respond initially, and then sent ambiguous signals that strengthened the feeling that he lacked political independence and integrity to resist Trump.
Mammani, a state legislator who shocked the race of his lively progressive candidacy, grew in recent days before the election on Tuesday – with the college of Emerson ballot Released on Monday, even assuming that he could narrowly defeat Kuoma in the final voting round. It is expected that someone who pursues the seismic victory of such a consequence for the city and the nation, to select caution when responding to such an immediate and serious step by the US president. But Mammani did not pull the beats when Trump attacks. On Saturday evening he announced, “Donald Trump ran for the president, promising to stop the wars rather than start new. Today’s unconstitutional hostilities are a dark, new chapter in his endless betrayal, which now threatens to immerse the world deeper into chaos.”
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Mammani, an open critic of the US foreign policy in the Middle East, especially US support for Israeli gas attack, as a result that the attack on Iran will have consequences for New York. “In the city, like ours, the impact of the war is felt deep here at home. I think of New York with loved ones at school,” he explained at the moment when the bombs fell in the Middle East. “While Donald Trump is urgent responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment, which rather spends trillion dollars on weapons than millions out of poverty, launching endless wars while silent calling for peace, and we could no longer take it.
Mammani’s powerful message was repeated by Lander, a New York Comptroller, who formed a team with a late stage with Mamman in the mayor’s famous weeks. Earth – Note“Trump’s necessary and unconstitutional strikes against Iran are a dangerous escalation of the war – and threatens countless Iranian, Israeli and American life. My thoughts with families who are afraid of their security, and thousands of New York, who are worried tonight about loved ones in Iran.”
And what about kuom? Hours after the attack, his company was busy posting photos of the candidate in the truck. He then advertised the approval from the highest Democrat of the institution, former President Bill Clinton. With regard to the bombing of Iran’s administration, convenient for kuoma NEW YORK POST announced On Sunday morning, “Cuomo did not have immediate commentary on US airfields”.
If the former governor finally speaking on Sunday afternoon Politics report“Kuom told reporters on Sunday that he supported the removal of Iran’s nuclear facilities.” Although he suggested that the president wanted to consult with Congress, Kuom repeated conversations from the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the attack made the world “a safe place“
Kuoma’s inability to cause Trump with a clarity or energy used by Mamdani and Lander, has caused fresh criticism of both Cuomo and many billionaire Trump supporters who support Kuom’s candidacy. Mamman Twitter On Sunday, “Kuom’s largest donors are encouraged by Trump. These are the Magazers who would have ear at the City Hall.”
There will be those who suggest that Trump’s war is not a corresponding issue for discussion in New York Mary. But they would be mistaken. In addition to the humane considerations cited by Mamdani and Lander – and the New York status as a final international city – there is a major reality that the Pentagon’s inflated budget is growing at Trump’s exponential speed, and everything is compressed when financing health, education and transport.
Progressives have long claimed that New York needs a mayor who admits that the exponential growth of the military-industrial complex comes at the cost for taxpayers and citizens of large American cities and who is ready to call this cost on behalf of the working class families.
The city was such a mayor in the 1960s: John Lindsay.
When Lindsay first ran in Mary’s New York in 1965, he did not fascinate his opposition to the Vietnam war, deciphering his participation in the moral and practical plan. “We are fighting in Vietnam that probably the most undesirable war in the history of this country,” – – Note A liberal republican who has earned a reputation for being good to the left of his party – and most of the Democratic Party – on internal and international issues. “We cannot solve problems by unlimited military escalation.”
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He won this race, but the war was raging. Thus, since Lindsay sought re -election in 1969, which may have been the most intensively challenged by Mary in New York history, he opposed the war, which was still transferred to Republican President Richard Nix – the center for his application. His position was one of the factors that cost him the national nomination this year. However, he fought, running as an independent and an old liberal party, against the conservative Republican and only a little less conservative Democrat.
As the autumn race heating, the rivals Lindsay complained that the reinforcement of the mayor of his anti -war position was a “sabotage tactic” that raised attention from municipal issues. However, as Harvard raspberry Evaluation of the 1969 competition noted“The statements against Vietnam Lindsa were made solely on the campaign; it only from the mayors of the nation has accepted a sustainable and dissolved stand against the war. Its argument is well defined, in addition: Vietnam does not deprive New York necessary funds, but also makes most party writings, because
Lindsay’s rivals continued to complain about the mayor’s steps to make the war a problem in the race. “But”, “,” wrote The New York Times“They lost this argument.”
When Lindsay resorted to mass demonstrations against the war – including October 15, 1969, Vietnam Maratory – The Term report What “the mayor received the most enthusiastic techniques of his 11-year public career, however, as he received the most difficult applause during the campaign when he announces war.”
A Term interpret What applause came, especially from young voters – the same group that most hotly supports Mammani. “But,” the document asked, “will the applause turn into voices?”
It turned out. Having the predominant support of young voters and anti-war New York, John Lindsay rose to re-election, finishing eight points ahead of his nearest competitor. The Vietnam War, of course, was not the only problem in Mary in 1969, just as Trump’s unconstitutional actions are not the only issue on Tuesday. But the issues of war and peace, as well as questions about the dangerous president, were of importance in the city’s policy in 1969. And they matter now.
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