Remember this? To honor Andrew Cuomo's loss in the New York mayoral primary on Tuesday, here's a throwback to one of Randy Rainbow's best — before Cuomo destroyed everything by undercounting COVID deaths in nursing homes and harassing women. (Actually, that this video hasn't aged well makes it even better. Never take it down, Randy!)
It became clear from their comments in the after-hours Tuesday night that the big-money donors to Cuomo's campaign had bankrolled him because he was up in the polls and they wanted to get on a future mayor's good side. Ugh Let this be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks money doesn't taint politics, or that the Supreme Court's execrable decision in Citizens United was a good one.
(P.S.: There are reports that Andrew will not run in the fall as an Independent after all. Yay. He needs to find something new and redeeming to do instead. P.P.S.: Helping Eric Adams ain't it.)
Meanwhile, since Zohran Mamdani, the apparent winner (final numbers in ranked-choice voting won't be available until next week), is a mere kitten and not experienced in city government, there's a warning for him, too: Don't screw this up. Mamdani needs to bring highly experienced hands into his administration — people like Comptroller Brad Lander, who is getting massive props on social media for throwing himself on the tracks to help stop the Cuomo train.
Speaking of trains, we refuse to jump on the one that the pundits have cheerfully boarded, claiming that Mamdani's win is a problem for Democrats. *Sigh* — so many lazy takes from reporters who think most of the country cares who the mayor of New York City is (we do, but we get that most folks don't).
The best thing that could happen now would be if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other progressives immediately capitalized on Mamdani's momentum by barnstorming against Benedict Donald's Billionaires' Bailout Bill in working-class red districts across the country. That would make us cats PURR.
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