Monday, July 14, 2025

Andrew Cuomo to Run for NYC Mayor as Independent

Ex-NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce he is staying in the race for NYC mayor as an independent.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 08:30 PM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

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Dear Andrew Cuomo, New Yorkers rejected you in the primary. And now you're pressing them again to pick you? No means no.

-- George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) Jul 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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AIPAC and the status quo dinosaurs of NYC are desperate to beat Zohran Mamdani, potentially the first Muslim Mayor of the Big Apple. Mamdani's socialist message of raising taxes on the oligarchs and defying Dummkopf Trumpf has appealed to New Yorkers. US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) endorses and supports Zohran Mamdani, while AIPAC-funded Democrats have either been mute or critical, like mentally ill US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). Zohran's enemies are amassing a huge financial war chest to defeat him on 4 Nov 2025.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-14 01:29 PM

Andrew Cuomo did alright for himself as a Democrat and civil servant. In 2021, Cuomo began collecting a $50,000 per year state pension after leaving the office of NYS Governor, which he won as a Democrat: www.celebritynetworth.com

"Thanks for all the money and success, Democratic Party, but my loyalties lie elsewhere now."
Signed,
Andrew 'AIPAC' Cuomo

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-14 02:51 PM

Dem Dinosaurs should just go Extinct already.

If they don't want to change the Money is Speech laws, they need to leave asap.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-14 03:55 PM

The only chance for Cuomo is if the other egomaniacs drop out.

Then again, Mossad could just interfere in our elections and Republicans would cheer.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:47 AM

On election night when Mamdani makes his victory speech he will be sure to thank Cuomo and his tremendous ego for handing him the office of Mayor of NYC! Cuomo just doesn't get it, the voters already rejected him, but he refuses to step aside.

#5 | Posted by gasman21 at 2025-07-15 06:24 AM

#5: "First we must kill the bear before we sell his skin."

Before now and 4 Nov, Zohran Mamdani's enemies will unleash a torrent of blasphemies on the poor guy, backed by millions of dollars because Bibi won't be happy if the 'crown jewels' (NYC) falls into the hands of a Muslim: pbs.twimg.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-15 07:03 AM

Gee, I wonder where fellow Democrat and New Yorker House Minority Leader Congressman Hakeem Jeffries stands on Zohran Mamdani's campaign to be Mayor of New York City? www.boughtbyzionism.org

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-15 07:12 AM

No means no Andy.

Cuomo began collecting a $50,000 per year state pension

That is chump change to a life long political animal.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-15 09:22 AM

It's also chump change to a NYC resident......

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-15 10:24 AM

$4,166 a month, I think that gets you an indoor parking spot in NYC.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 10:40 AM

Cuomo knows that he is not going to win. He and Adams are setting the stage for a republican to win.

#11 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-07-15 12:03 PM

Dem Dinosaurs should just go Extinct already.

If they don't want to change the Money is Speech laws, they need to leave asap.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-14 03:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not to worry, the Jews in NYC will make sure your socialist, Arab never wins this race. Just like they plucked Bowman and Bush out of their seats in congress.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-15 01:02 PM

This is just a play to make sure a real liberal doesn't win. That's why cuomo didn't blink when he lost the primary.

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-15 03:13 PM

Mario Cuomo was three-times Governor of NYS and Andrew Cuomo twice, as Democrats. They owe everything to the Democratic Party. Now disgraced Andrew Cuomo is ungratefully and shamelessly turning his back on that legacy by trying to spoil the chances of fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani by running as an independent: mondoweiss.net

Today the Immortal Bard would say to Andrew 'Quisling' Cuomo: "Thou traitorous white-livered unwashed lickspittle swineherd!"

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-15 03:35 PM

@#12 ... Not to worry, the Jews in NYC ...

Back a decade or three ago, I had read that Brooklyn (a borough of NYC) was the largest Jewish settlement outside of Israel.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:10 PM

... Ex-NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce he is staying in the race for NYC mayor as an independent. ...

According to the local NYC reporting I see each evening, fmr Gov Cuomo also said that he would drop out of the race in September if he were not the strongest candidate (i.e., #2 in the polls) against Rep Mamdani.


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:14 PM

In the 90s is when Israel really opened up the West Bank to Settlers. Many to most of them are from outside Israel.

And much like the Palestinians whose number somehow keeps increasing,

As as aside, Palestinian population growth in captivity is hilariously touted as evidence of "see, it's not a genocide, we clearly can't kill them as fast as they make them" by their captors.

Anyway, Israel has the highest population growth among modern nations, so there's far more Jews in Israel than in New York City these days. It's a booming economy with socialized medicine modeled after a European social democracy, and the ongoing war effort is largely funded by the United States, like Trump complains about us doing for the European social democracies that comprise NATO.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 08:17 PM

@#15 ... Back a decade or three ago, I had read that Brooklyn (a borough of NYC) was the largest Jewish settlement outside of Israel. ...

Found this ...

Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth (2018)
www.hadassahmagazine.org

... By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews now call the borough home, down from an incredible 900,000 in the 1940s. One in four Brooklyn residents is Jewish, the largest proportion by far among New York City's five boroughs, according to the most recent survey by the UJA-Federation of New York.

"There are more Jews right now in Brooklyn than anywhere else in the world, including the city of Tel Aviv," said Ron Schweiger, the borough's official historian, whose Flatlands home is a shrine to the long-vanished Brooklyn Dodgers (the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957). ...


#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:35 PM

OK, this looks to be getting interesting ...

Zohran Mamdani scores prize endorsement in New York City mayoral race amid big business questionsabc7ny.com

... Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has scored a prize endorsement from the largest union for city workers.

It comes a day after Andrew Cuomo officially announced he is staying in the race as an independent.

"What use is it to go through months of contract negotiation to win those hard-earned raises only for you to go back to your rent-stabilized apartment and face an even bigger increase in your rent?" Mamdani said.

For Mamdani, there is no bigger prize than the endorsement of DC37, the city's largest municipal labor union.

"What use is it to have the greatest city in the world if New Yorkers can't afford to live here? We do not want this to become a museum where working people once lived," Mamdani said. "We want it to be a living, breathing testament of what's possible."

Affordability is the centerpiece of Mamdani's upbeat, upstart campaign. He's already endorsed by the city's teachers' union, the Hotel Trades Council, the New York State Nurses Association, SEIU 32BJ and the New York City Central Labor Council. ...



#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 09:45 PM

I don't live in NYC, but I do have a rule that bars me (absent evidence compelling me to act otherwise) from voting for nepobabies.

#20 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-16 06:12 AM

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