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In reply to the discussion: Is there a reason Mamdani ran a candidate against Dan Goldman in NY? [View all]haele
(15,711 posts)68. Because Democrats range in politics within a big, diverse tent, and
Goldman and Mandami didn't quite have the same Democratic vision of the future?
As a party, we can look at those differences as a wedge or a net.
Politics is Society's Public Transit.
I'd rather vote for a candidate who will do the job to take us all in the general direction we all voted on and paid them to go, then to take off on scary detours to add to their own profit and not care about the safety or well-being of those who hired them.
Mandami, like Fiorello before him, has a right to his own opinion on who will serve most of New York better.
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It wasn't my question, the OP asked, rather awkwardly, why Mandami backed a candidate against Goldman.
dem4decades
12 hrs ago
#81
French disinformation watchdog claims there was a disinfo campaign in NYC election.
AloeVera
17 hrs ago
#66
Yeah, it sucks when republicans get elected but that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed,
Mysterian
18 hrs ago
#47
So by that rational, trump is "%ucking great" too? The people did elect him
krawhitham
12 hrs ago
#80
A large faction of the party just can't seem to comprehend the idea that "anti-Trump and nothing else" just might not
Midwestern Democrat
18 hrs ago
#48
If what Goldman was doing was what the people wanted, he would have won the primary
sboatcar
18 hrs ago
#55
Brad Lander cross endorsed Mamdani when Mamdani ran for mayor which helped him defeat Cuomo
AZProgressive
13 hrs ago
#73
Anyone running can be challenged. The job does not belong to anyone. Mamdani backed a candidate didn't run a
Pisces
13 hrs ago
#76
Did HE run a candidate or did a candidate decide to run and got his endorsement?
BlueTsunami2018
7 hrs ago
#86