With a little over three months left till New York Metropolis elects a brand new mayor, two of its most distinguished candidates in Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo are verbally clashing. This time, Cuomo is attacking the frontrunner over his platform message of including affordability in housing for residents, questioning why he’s residing in a rent-stabilized condominium in Astoria, Queens, whereas making a $140,000 wage.
Whereas showing on the Nationwide Dominican Day Parade on Sunday (Aug. 10), Cuomo attacked Mamdani and stated he would create a brand new regulation to focus on the Democratic candidate’s alleged hypocrisy. “I feel hire stabilized items after they’re vacant ought to solely be rented to individuals who want reasonably priced housing, not individuals like Zohran Mamdani, and I’m gonna name it Zohran’s regulation, as a result of it’s an abuse of the system,” he stated to reporters.
Mamdani fired again on Monday (Aug. 11), saying: “What Andrew Cuomo is proposing, be it the hire management he cited, the hire stabilization, he intends to talk about, is in some ways reflective of the truth that I stay hire free in his head.” He added that he had a wage of $50,000 on the time he moved into his condominium. The state assemblyman did specific that he was towards wants testing and revenue limits for housing. By the way, Cuomo at present resides in an condominium on the east facet of Manhattan for $8,000 a month.
The trade is the newest between Cuomo and Mamdani, with Cuomo opting to ship barrages towards the candidate who defeated him soundly within the Democratic main months in the past. Cuomo, who served as the previous governor of New York till stepping down in 2021 over sexual harassment allegations, was blasted by Mamdani marketing campaign spokeswoman Dora Pekec, who known as his feedback “determined” earlier than including: “If Mr. Cuomo actually cared for working individuals in New York Metropolis, he’d commit at present to reimburse the taxpayers the $60 million we’re spending on his private authorized protection — which may pay for 1000’s of reasonably priced housing items as an alternative of probing the gynecological data of ladies he harassed.”
At the moment, the primary ballot launched by Siena in regards to the mayoral race exhibits that Mamdani nonetheless holds a robust lead of 19 proportion factors over Cuomo, additionally holding a superb share of potential Democratic voters. Cuomo nonetheless has an edge, nonetheless, over Mamdani in addition to Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and the incumbent Eric Adams amongst Black and Jewish voters.
