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Curtis Sliwa or Eric Adams? Does anyone trust Adams as genuine especially with the BLM support and using the typical racial card or do you trust Sliwa who seems to be actually interested in cleaning up the city and putting a stop to the out of control crime.
Don’t know much about Eric Adams but he’s been working really hard to curry favor from the frum oilom. I grew up listening to Coytis Sliwa so I’m a little biased towards him.
The general rule is Democrats are a disaster. And Republicans are clearly much less bad than the Democrat candidate.
Despite all the sophistry the leftists use when trying to sell you a bridge. Actually give away the bridge for “free”.
I can’t help but think that sliwa is a mud slinging, angry man who used to have a very clear purpose in life for himself. He had a gang of self styled crime fighters and he felt he was a hero – he has done good things for the community, but has also made hateful tirades against our way of life. He has the trump-esque appeal of the common man, except he does not have the experience in high society and business acumen that the former possessed. He is likewise headstrong, obnoxious… I don’t see any reason at all to entrust him with the stewardship of the city.
Adams has been in public life and is not a known radical leftist; I was very relieved when he won the nomination. Dinkins was a weak leader who was in the pocket of the African American community; I’ve seen no indication that Adams is too….he did once associate with Louis Farrakhan, which is very disturbing, but has since distanced himself.
Avira, de Blasio also was not a known radical leftist before he became mayor. He proved himself that only once in City Hall. In fact, he previously represented the frum Boro Park coming in the City Council.
Sliwa, while once made an unfortunate reference to our community (Eisav Soneh L’Yaakov is pretty universal), overall he has a decades-long history of friendly and helpful interactions with the frum community.
All this said, Adams is a shoe-in to winning the election in this one-party city.
Why have there been scant coverage of the politicians for mayor
And does anyone in the CR know (from YWN news) anything about the Nassau DA race with Todd kaminsky and Ann Donnelly
CA: Donnelly is a very agressive prosecutor who will go after Kaminsky on the failed NYS bail reform law. Even though Kaminsky belatedly became a ba’al tshuvah on the issue and voted in favor of changes last year giving judges more discretion to jail repeat offenders, the law is still very unpopular on Long Island and his initial support will hurt him badly, even among Dems.
NYers, should you first say Gomel for the D- primaries ending with a most palatable candidate?
Show some appreciationrightwriter, go to Adams website and you’ll see what he supports; he’s a total liberal. He will indeed be a second Dinkins but worse cause a bigger liberal ( a species that didn’t exist back when Dinkins was mayor).
First of all, I never knew that fate had a mayor. If it does, I would expect Hashem to elect her or him.
As for the New York City mayoral race, like many elections in a two-party democracy, the electoral choice often comes down to the question of who is less stupid. Adams is clearly less stupid.
And I cannot take seriously anyone who would take Sliwa seriously.
huju: NYC is hardly a two party democracy. And Hitler wasn’t stupid. His electoral opponent was less intelligent. But would have been a better Chancellor. No need to invoke Godwin’s Law since I’m not comparing Adams to him. I’m just pointing out the incorrectness of your statement.
With that all behind us, Sliwa would be as far better Mayor than Adams. But like a non-communist in China or Cuba, he has no chance.
Perhaps the New York Elections Board should simply refuse to certify the election results next month under the provisions of Sectio3 of the Election Law and instead declare the office vacant and leave it up to the state legislature to designate an “Acting Mayor” and sort out what comes next. Never has NYC faced such unattractive choices in a mayoral election (but that reflects the same poor choices we are presented with in most state and federal elections in the past several election cycles). I personally think that Adams is the better of two really bad choices in terms of managing the city going forward.
As advised, I went to Adams site. I see a mixture of progressive and not progressive policies. In the area of his expertise – policing, he is especially specific and sometimes seem to express sensible ideas using language palatable to progressives (he suggests “gun control” where he clearly targets looking for guns used by shooters, not generic guns). here is a sample of not progressives and progressives policies:
not progressive
SAVE $1.5B AND AVOID LAYOFFS BY SIMPLY NOT HIRING ANYONE NEW FOR TWO YEARSwe will reduce agency spending at least 3-5% by applying an efficiency mandate that eliminates ineffective programs and unnecessary spending, while utilizing an inequality impact test so that programs vital to lower-in-come New Yorkers are protected.
By using real-time governing tools and tracking crime trends to become predictive, we can quickly shift NYPD resources from one community to another to reverse bad trends. For instance, we will regularly shift detectives and other officers from low-crime areas to crime hot-spots.
work with private companies who are willing to sponsor spots for NYPD supervisors at the leadership academies they send their own management staff to, helping train a new generation of brass to think critically, behave honorably and lead effectively.
Relocation Employment Assistance Program (REAP) has successfully drawn new businesses here from outside the state by providing a tax credit per employee per year if they locate in certain areas of the city.
TAX-FREE TUESDAYS”
ELIMINATE THE FEES FOR STARTING (OR RE-STARTING) A SMALL BUSINESS
progressiveWe can generate $1-2 billion annually by instituting a “Recovery Share”—a modest increase to the income taxes of city earners who make more than $5 million a year, sunsetting after two years.
reward businesses that hire local workers and benefit minority and female owners and workers—especially on City-financed projects.
recruiting from the very same neighborhoods that are suffering from crime, which are mostly Black and Brown
EMPOWER IMMIGRANTS WITH MUNICIPAL VOTING RIGHTS
INVEST IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
ADD HOUSING—FOR EVERYONE—IN WEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODSAlways ask, these things are gibberish, there’s nothing of substance here. Plus, 99% of his policies are totally liberal, including most of what you wrote. You looked for the needle in the haystack and found 1-2 non-liberal ones.
Providing tax credits for businesses relocating to “certain areas”? I am certain which areas they are…is another liberal “jewel” serving nothing and no one.
How will “empowering immigrants with voting rights” save NYC?
Invest in “green infastructure”?! Didn’t we go through with that in the Obama era where he gave billions for solar companies which was money poured down the drain?
Add housing “for everyone” in wealthy neighborhoods?! Right, that will surely make the last few rich tax payers stay in NYC. Make sure the bums, the drug addicts, the homeless, the drifters and criminals are transferred to wealthy together with the “low to no income” individuals… This is exactly what we need to turn NYC around…
philosopher, I had 2 lists – non-progs first and then progs – the one that you just listed. As I tried to sample proportionally, then yu can see that he has substantial, but probably less than 50% of non-prog ideas, especially in the areas of his expertise – policing. Now, you got to AOC site and tell us whether any of those non-prog ideas are there? I don’t know whether he qualifies as a “centrist” but definitely not as a 100% progressive.
Always ask, according to today’s definition of off the charts communist, immoral behaimo liberals, Adams APPEARS to be somewhat of a centrist…but certainly he cannot save NYC…
Curtis is a loud mouth publicity seeker who would do anything for attention and not going to win in any event
It seems to me that NYC avoided a disaster similar to Chicago and other cities and ended up with two non-disasters to choose from. People in other places envy you. Maybe you deserved a break from the current mayor. As R Yohanan have asked “are you still enjoying it suffering]”?
Two clowns, only one (Adams) perhaps slighly less dysfunctional than the other. Its mind-numbing that with 20 million residents, these are the abysmal choices given NY voters.
I wonder if all those cops, firefighters, and emts that are soon going to be out of a job (or forced to jab) will vote for sliwa who hates deblasio (as opposed to adams who gave him a B+)
I preface this post by saying I’m generally with the Republicans.
I don’t think Sliwa is a good option because he has said anti Semitic things in the past (about Jews taking over) and when asked about it this year he didn’t apologize!
Yes, Eric Adams has been investigated for corruption in every office he’s held BUT he’s a former police officer so I feel like he’ll be tougher on crime. (He said he doesn’t support defunding the police)Bored teen
He apologized
And did adams apologize for being friends with Farrakhan?
I didn’t know about the Farrakhan situation and I didn’t know Sliwa apologised. Thanks for that info, it does change things!
I’m liking what I hear about adams
So far it’s all talk but at least it isn’t worse
Adams is a modern liberal version of Dunkin’s. He supports the worst of the worst immorality. I’m simply embarrassed that there are so many Jews seen in public endorsing and supporting him.
Philosopher,
Do you have anything backing up that statement?
Philosopher: We live in a real world where we don’t control other people’s “morality”. Adams was elected mayor and for the next 4 years he will make important decisions affecting the daily lives of 1.2 million yidden in NYC . The elected leaders representing the frum tzibur along with rabbonim and askanin working on behalf of our mosdos are not endorsing his personal lifestyle (if thats what you mean by his “immorality). They are seeking to establish and maintain effective communications and good working relationships with him and his appointees. To do otherwise would be political malpractice and a disservice to frum yidden in New York.
Adams isn’t a liberal. He is standing up against BLM openly, and there is no reason to believe that he is lying. He is running as a dem since he always ran with the dems and wouldnt get democratic support if he were to run as republican.
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