Tomorrow is primary day in New York. Nobody really knows how this week's intense heat wave will affect turnout in New York City, so the successful campaign for Mayor will most likely have banked a lot of early votes in the last couple of weeks. Will Bernie Bro Zohran Mamdani edge out Andrew Cuomo? (Polls say it's possible.)
But if we cats were registered to vote in the city, we'd vote for Brad Lander. And probably not rank anybody else.
You may have first become aware of Brad Lander when he was tackled, handcuffed and arrested by alleged goons from ICE for attempting to escort migrants safely out of their immigration hearings. (Which is something a true mensch would do, by the way.) But Lander's tenure as New York City Comptroller makes him the most qualified candidate.
"The mayoralty sits atop more than 40 agencies and 300,000 employees," Ezra Klein wrote in the Times. "You have to be at least a little bit nuts to think you can manage this city. But Lander...knows how those agencies function and which do and don’t work."
Lander's main competition on the Democratic side? A former Governor who had to resign in disgrace and a 33-year-old who's only been in the State Assembly for four years. Curtis Sliwa (ugh) is the lone Republican candidate, and the incumbent, the supremely corrupt Eric Adams, is running as an Independent. Gee, New York City just can't catch a break. We cats hope for the best, but meanwhile, we HISS.
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