Mamdami won

[conuly]

I haven't had a chance to look at any other election results yet, but that's cheering. I do think he's vastly overpromised and will regret it - among other things, free buses requires first wresting the MTA back from Albany, and that's not the job of a single term - but it's not like I liked any of the other candidates.

Especially Cuomo, for many reasons, but most especially because you just can't trust somebody who thinks the best career move after governor is mayor.

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[rebeccmeister]

I tend to think of Cuomo as "governor who has fallen from grace," which is I guess why he bothered running for mayor.

Mamdami will definitely have his work cut out for him. One can only hope he will be a quick learner once he's more thoroughly up against reality.

[redbird]

One of the things that drifted past me last night was:

Why is this mayoral election different from all other mayoral elections? In all other mayoral elections, we get to see Andrew Cuomo lose but once, but in this mayoral election we got to see him lose twice.

[bibliofile]

I'm so happy for you all, though. Mamdani seems to have a good set of priorities. Naybe his state legislative experience will help him in working with Albany? (We'll find out.)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I haven't had a chance to look at any other election results yet, but that's cheering.<<

Apparently there were some other good wins too.

>> I do think he's vastly overpromised and will regret it - among other things, free buses requires first wresting the MTA back from Albany, and that's not the job of a single term - but it's not like I liked any of the other candidates.<<

I like that he set targets based on what would improve people's lives. I suspect he will make serious attempts to pursue them, and even if he doesn't succeed at all of them, people will see him doing the work -- and who tries to sabotage it. *shrug* I like a target-rich environment too, even though it means I'm unlikely to finish ALL my goals each year.

[calimac]

Still, Jerry Brown was mayor of Oakland after his first spell as governor of California. But he’s a sui generis character.

[brokenallbroken]

Blue wave! We did great last night, flipped a few seats at the state legislative level, trifecta in NJ and VA.

[hudebnik]

Mamdani has a lot of ideas. Some of them won't work. Some of them will work. Some of them might work if he had the power to enact them, which he doesn't.

I didn't vote for him primarily because of those ideas, or even because Sliwa and Cuomo were dreadful. I voted for him because he listens to people who don't already agree with him. He started his campaign by going to neighborhoods that had voted for Trump in 2024 and asking average people on the street why. When he won the Democratic nomination, he knew that the business community was terrified of having a "Democratic Socialist" as mayor, so he met with as many NYC business leaders as possible to find out what they feared and what they hoped for.

Now that he's won the general election, his transition team are, and presumably his appointees will be, largely people more experienced than him, experts in their respective fields. Most of them are politically progressive, but fairly mainstream. This is unlikely to be a disaster.

He will, of course, face more opposition from the White House than Adams, Cuomo, or Sliwa would have faced. With him as Mayor, NYC will not get Federal grant money that might have actually been delivered to Mayor Adams, Cuomo or Sliwa... but that says more about the occupant of the White House than the occupant of Gracie Mansion. With him as Mayor, NYC is somewhat more likely to have ICE/ATF/military raids like those in Chicago last month, and somewhat more likely to have National Guard and/or regular military patrolling the streets... but that was fairly likely to happen no matter who won the election.

[silveradept]

He certainly was yards better than the others. We'll see whether or not he can manage to move everyone else toward his vision. I hope he can get it done, honestly. It would be great to see not only a candidate win, but actual progress happen.

[dorchadas]

Being Jewish I saw a lot of doomerism about him online but he's obviously miles better than the other candidates and his "radical" ideas are pretty cautious when you actually look into them--like, "government owning the grocery stories" is a pilot program to open five (IIRC) stores in underserved areas and see what happens. And yeah, free buses is going to be hard.

People are pretty obviously sick of "Everything will get very slightly worse, every year, forever" as the actual effect of their votes though, so.