No sooner was Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York than town payroll dropped from 306,248 workers to 306,247.
That’s the variety of metropolis employees Mamdani, 34, who has by no means run something or had an actual job, will oversee when he’s sworn into workplace in January to run a metropolis of eight million folks.
Boston in contrast, a metropolis of 672,318 folks, has a metropolis work drive of some 25,530 workers and a mayor, Michelle Wu, 40, who already has 4 years as mayor below her belt.
Mamdani is new. He’s only a three-term member of the New York Meeting the place he did have a workers of a half dozen folks and an absentee document of fifty p.c.
Now the Democrat Socialist shall be mayor of free-market New York Metropolis, headquarters and monetary capital of the USA with a inhabitants that features a million Jews.
He’s additionally pro-Hamas, anti-Israel and a pointy critic of the “racist” New Your Police Division—which he desires to defund— and is in contrast to Wu who has a powerful working relationship with the Boston cops.
“Now we have to clarify,” Mamdani stated in a lately resurfaced video from 2023, “that when the boot of the NYPD has its boot in your neck it has been laced by the IDF”—the Israeli Protection Pressure.
So, good luck with that.
The primary metropolis worker to flee the brand new administration was New York Hearth Commissioner Robert Tucker, who’s Jewish. He handed in his resignation the day after Mamdani’s victory.
Subsequent in line could possibly be revered and efficient, powerful on crime New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who can be Jewish.
That resignation may come when Mamdani, who has but to sentence the Intifada—which requires violence in opposition to the Jews– orders Tisch to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, as he promised, ought to Netanyahu come to New York.
Or it may are available January when some three to 4 thousand New York cops are scheduled to depart the division, decreasing the variety of cops to round 30,000, the bottom quantity in many years.
That’s extra cops leaving than the make-up of the complete Boston Police Division.
Whereas it’s pure to check Mamdani with Wu in that they’re each younger, politically profitable, anti- Trump progressives, there are variations as effectively.
Whereas Boston shouldn’t be New York, Wu is aware of learn how to run a serious metropolis and has performed so for 4 years. Earlier than that Wu was a veteran member of the Boston Metropolis Council. Mamdani has not run something.
One other is that Wu is a Christian who was born in Chicago after her dad and mom migrated to the U.S. from Taiwan. She has no hang-up with Jews or with anybody else.
Mamdani, a naturalized citizen, was born in Uganda to Muslim dad and mom of Indian descent who migrated to the U.S. when he was seven years previous. His relationship with the Jewish neighborhood in New York has been of main concern.
Whereas Wu is Roman Catholic, she doesn’t put on her faith on her sleeve, besides when she testifies earlier than Congress. Muslim Mamdani does.
What the 2 have in frequent, although, is their hatred of Donald Trump as witnessed by their Trump taunting election night time victory speeches on Tuesday.
Each acted as if they’d simply defeated Trump. Wu didn’t even have an opponent.
Wu, objecting to ICE’s raids rounding up prison unlawful immigrants, referred to as Trump “a prison who acts like a king.”
However a humorous factor occurred. Whereas Wu was slamming Trump, ICE brokers swooped down on a automotive wash in Allston and scooped up eight people suspected, amongst different issues, of being within the nation illegally.
The “king” struck once more.
Standing as much as Trump goes to take much more than phrases.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas might be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
