As we push for Zohran Mamdani to make clear his positions on crime, we shouldn’t let the opposite main candidate off the hook: As Mayor Eric Adams’ allies be aware, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is successfully just about the identical.
In a brand new advert, pro-Adams tremendous PAC Empower NYC asks, “Who helps criminals essentially the most?” then lays out the 2 candidates’ data on public security:
Cuomo packed the Parole Board with lefties who gained’t cease springing cop killers; Mamdani needs to close down Rikers.
Cuomo signed the 2019 no-bail regulation, and Mamdani referred to as for dismantling the police.
The bigger level: If regulation and order is a prime concern, neither of those “reformers” is your man.
Mamdani’s over-the-top anti-cop rhetoric and absurd public-safety positions — cops shouldn’t reply to home violence calls! — have garnered loads of consideration.
However Cuomo pretends to be higher when his precise selections whereas in energy unleashed a world of ache on New York.
He signed the Elevate the Age invoice that’s sending the charges of teenybopper criminals and teen victims hovering.
And never solely did he ink the no-bail regulation creating revolving-door “justice” for harmful recidivists, he’s nonetheless stands by it, claiming it “righted a horrible improper.”
Sure, Mamdani is for all this idiocy as a matter of precept, whereas Cuomo merely has no ideas (apart from his refusal to confess he ever made a mistake) — however Andrew’s proved utterly prepared to march to the identical far-left drum.
That he’s not a real believer is chilly consolation to the New Yorkers who should dwell day by day with the implications of his pro-crime selections.
Nor can they’ve the least religion he gained’t promote them out once more to serve his personal private political wants.
The ultimate line of Empower NYC’s advert sums it up: “Cuomo and Mamdani have heaps in frequent with one another,” however nothing in frequent with common New Yorkers.
Their largest similarity: Neither belongs in Metropolis Corridor.
