Curtis Sliwa Tells 9/11 Families to Stop Being ‘Sore Losers’ Over Mamdani

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Apparently, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks now comes with a new rule: You are allowed to remember the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamist terrorists, but apparently not to complain about the Islamist mayor attending the ceremony.

Former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa told relatives of 9/11 victims Thursday to “stop being sore losers” after some families launched a petition urging New York City Mayor, comrade Zohran Mamdani, to stay away from this year’s Ground Zero commemoration.

“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers!” Sliwa told reporters Thursday. “You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was.”

That is certainly one way to put it. 

Some relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have backed a petition asking Mamdani not to attend the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed 2,977 people.

Giovanni Galante, whose 29-year-old wife, Grace Catherine Galante, was killed on 9/11 and who helped organize the petition, accused Mamdani of failing to “meaningfully acknowledge the horror” of the attacks and associating with people who have minimized them. 

[In fact, on the day of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Mamdani's wife, Rama Sawaf Duwaji, like a post from The Slow Factory account that included images from the assault. It showed a bulldozer breaching the Gaza-Israel barrier and terrorists on a captured IDF vehicle. An overlaid text of the image said: "Resisting apartheid since 1948," and "Systemic change for collective liberation." The next day, she like posts from The People's Forum (associated with Times Square protests involving Democratic Socialists of America and their buddies.) These promoted standing with "Palestinian resistance," along with the "from the river to the sea" slogan. In February 2024, after a NY Times investigation into sexual violence during the attack, Duwaji liked a post referring to reports of Hamas rapes as a "mass rape" hoax that was "fabricated" by The Times. Mamdani never condemned his wife's words.]

Cheri Sparacio, whose husband, Thomas, was also killed on 9/11, pointed to Mamdani’s association with left-wing scum-streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11” before having to later apologize.

Mamdani has said he plans to attend the September 11 ceremony anyway, his way of doxing them.

Sliwa, who ran against Mamdani and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the Republican candidate in last year’s mayoral election, said families have every right to dislike the mayor, but apparently the mayoral chair now comes with a complimentary halo.

Sliwa called the petition effort ridiculous. Sliwa is wrong.

“Once he got elected, you should have known he was going to be there at 9/11,” Sliwa said. “Now, if you choose to turn your back on him, I don’t want to ever tell family members what they should be doing on this holiday, not holiday, but this solemn occasion, that’s your choice.

“But I believe you respect the office,” he continued. “He’s the mayor. He’s representing the city.”

Why? Why must we 'respect the office' if the person in office is a socialist-Islamist who apparently plans to ruin the city's economy with his communist ideas? Maybe respecting the office means going after the person who is degrading the office. 

Sliwa also revisited an embarrassing moment from the closing days of the 2025 mayoral campaign involving Cuomo and radio host Sid Rosenberg.

Rosenberg joked with Cuomo, who was running as an independent, that Mamdani would cheer for the terrorists if another September 11 attack occurred while he was mayor. Cuomo chuckled before replying, “That’s another problem.”

Sliwa said the remark hurt Cuomo at precisely the moment when his campaign had begun gaining momentum.

“He was gaining traction, and then he made that stupid remark and then didn’t handle it well,” Sliwa said. “And then Zohran exploited the hell out of it, as he should.”

“That was Islamophobic,” Sliwa added.

So, in the strange political universe of New York City, the 9/11 anniversary has somehow become a referendum on Islamophobia, mayoral etiquette and whether grieving families are sufficiently respectful of the office.

Meanwhile, the families who actually lost loved ones on September 11 apparently get to choose between keeping quiet and being labeled “sore losers.”

What a country. What a crazy take by a guy who's lost my respect.

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Luigi Mangione Seeks Plea Deal, Apparently Discovering That Revolutionary Courage Has Its Limits

Luigi Mangione, the alleged cowardly assassin who became an unlikely folk hero for parts of the online left, is reportedly looking for a plea deal with federal prosecutors. 

Apparently, declaring war on capitalism from behind a gun is one thing. Facing the federal justice system is another.

Mangione, who is charged with the cowardly 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is reportedly in “serious negotiations” with federal prosecutors, according to a new report. An unexpected hearing has been scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. in Manhattan federal court, less than a month before his federal trial is scheduled to begin on September 8.

Mangione cowardly shoots Brian Thompson in the back, allegedly

According to TMZ, a potential deal could involve Mangione pleading guilty to murder in an open plea, leaving his sentence entirely up to the judge without a recommendation from prosecutors.

The federal case is going to be presided over by U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garrett, Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023, recommended by Sen. Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer (D-NY), and confirmed by the Senate on a largely party-line vote (49-46, with nearly all Democrats supporting and nearly all Republicans opposing).

the left's angry heart-throb 

Her professional background includes long service as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, roles in the New York State Attorney General’s office, and serving as New York City Department of Investigation commissioner. Federal judges are officially nonpartisan, but her appointment by a leftist vegetable of a president is the primary public indicator of association.

The state case is being presided over by Justice Gregory Carro, New York Supreme Court. He was appointed by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliana, a Republican.  

By having Judge Garnett presiding and deciding the sentence, it could give the cowardly Mangione an opportunity to present mitigating factors at sentencing, including his views about healthcare, corporate greed and whatever arguments his attorneys believe might explain how those grievances supposedly contributed to the killing.

In other words, the revolutionary who allegedly decided that society needed a violent dose of his personal ideology may now be hoping the court will consider his feelings before deciding how long he should spend in prison.

And based on how the left is adjudicating crime, he may get a medal of valor for the cowardly murder of Brian Thompson.

Such a deal could potentially result in a sentence of less than life in prison and could also raise double jeopardy issues in the state case. Mangione faces additional charges in New York and Pennsylvania. Judge Gregory Carro previously dismissed the defense's double jeopardy argument as premature.

The sudden hearing follows reports that plea negotiations took place in June before stalling. Mangione's top lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, accused federal prosecutors of attempting to “prejudice” public opinion against her client.

“This information attributed to ‘anonymous sources’ is part of a troubling, deliberate pattern by prosecutors and law enforcement to prejudice Luigi, manipulate public opinion, and violate his constitutional right to a fair trial and impartial jury. Every defendant in America is presumed innocent until proven guilty, including Luigi, who has to fight the same charges twice.”

Of course, every defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. That is precisely why civilized societies have courts, judges and juries instead of allowing angry political ideologues to decide who deserves to live or die.

Brian Thompson's family

Mangione's case has nevertheless attracted an unusual amount of attention, particularly from people who appear to regard an alleged murderer as a symbol of resistance against corporate America.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled that jurors in the trial will remain anonymous because of concerns about intimidation and harassment involving witnesses and jurors. The judge also approved an overflow room for media and spectators, with both audio and video permitted.

More than 80 news organizations are expected to attend if the trial proceeds as scheduled.

For now, the alleged revolutionary has apparently reached the stage of his grand crusade where lawyers, judges and sentencing guidelines matter quite a bit.

The man who allegedly wanted to send a message to corporate America may soon be sending one to the judge instead: Please, sir, may I have less than life?

What a coward. Do you agree?

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'Habibi City,' New York Magazine's salute to anti-SemitismZai

Zaina Arafat

New York Magazine, an evil rag, has just published a special package in its issue of 10 August 2026, under the title “Habibi City,” also presented as a celebration of SWANA New York. The piece of crap sets out to applaud the rising cultural presence of Southwest Asian and North African [SWANA] communities across the city: the parties, the restaurants, the artists, the comedians, the bookstores, all led by a younger generation that has decided the moment is theirs.

The cover photograph shows a gathering at Laylit, held at Elsewhere. The principal essay is the work of the execrable Zaina Arafat. 

Critics, most prominently John Podhoretz writing in the New York Post, have described the cover and its accompanying package as the “evil ‘Habibi City’ cover.” Similar language has appeared elsewhere. They contend that the issue advances an anti-Israel and anti-Zionist outlook, treats Jewish New Yorkers with marked coolness or as an unwelcome presence, resorts to formulations such as “the land mass currently called Israel,” and rearranges the events after 7 October so that the sense of threat is inverted. 

All of this, they note, unfolds against the political backdrop of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York. 

The magazine itself presents the exercise as a cheerful affirmation of SWANA cultural influence and community spirit. The word “evil” is the critics’ own. The dispute is only a few days old, yet it has already provoked considerable objection both online and in the opinion pages. 

Arafat [no relation to Yassar] is a Palestinian-American writer who makes no secret of her strong anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic convictions, although she never has covertly mentioned the latter hatred in public. She describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms that a range of Jewish organizations, the New York Post, The Free Press and others regard as antisemitic or as adding fuel to an antisemitic atmosphere.

In the lead essay she informs readers that SWANA New Yorkers continue to confront “xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Zionism.” Zionism is thereby placed on the same plane as racial prejudice or anti-Muslim hostility. 

She further presents the SWANA cultural flowering as “born out of the pain of the genocide in Gaza” and speaks of people “living under the threat of annihilation” in the period after 7 October.

The wider package, of which her essay is the centerpiece, employs the phrase “the land mass currently called Israel,” an expression critics have called an erasure of Jewish history and of any legitimate claim to the region. Coverage of Jewish and Israeli chefs and restaurants has been criticized as something closer to a hit piece.

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Eleven Chinese Nationals Busted by Feds in Alleged Marriage Scheme

Eleven people in New York, mainly Chinese nationals, have been indicted in what authorities describe as a massive sham marriage network that allegedly turned the American immigration system into something resembling a decade-long dating service for people who were not actually looking for love.

The alleged operation ran for roughly 10 years and arranged more than 1,000 phony marriages, allegedly for the sole purpose of obtaining legal status in the United States. Some customers were reportedly willing to pay more than $100,000 for the privilege of participating in the scheme.

"Gaining American citizenship and legal status to reside in this great nation is a sacred privilege, and we will ensure it is always done in accordance with the law, protecting our communities and national security,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday at a news conference.

"This scheme was not a quick fly-by-night operation, but rather a year's long multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people," he said.

The Wednesday indictments were filed entirely in New York City, but the Justice Department said the alleged sham marriages extended well beyond the Big Apple, with suspected activity in Massachusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, several other states, China and Vanuatu, wherever that is.

Under the alleged arrangement, American citizens could receive as much as $30,000, paid in smaller installments throughout the process. Recruiters reportedly received about $5,000 for every American citizen they successfully brought into the operation.

U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York told conservative media outlet Townhall that Americans were recruited through social media, including advertisements that may have been deceptive on their face.

So much for "love at first sight." Apparently, the real matchmaking algorithm was Facebook, cash and an immigration attorney.

"As alleged, this decade-long scheme turned marriage fraud into an international business model arranging countless sham marriages and causing hundreds of fraudulent Green Card applications to be submitted to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,” Acting Executive Associate Director John Condon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a statement. 

“Through the Homeland Security Task Force, HSI and our partners will continue to dismantle criminal networks that undermine the rule of law, exploit federal laws, and profit from fraud.”

The case is a reminder that America's immigration system is not supposed to operate on the principle that anyone with enough money and a sufficiently creative story gets to skip the line.

For millions of immigrants who followed the rules, waited their turn and pursued citizenship legally, these alleged schemes do more than commit fraud. They undermine the very system that lawful immigrants worked so hard to navigate.

The American Dream is still available. Apparently, the Justice Department would just prefer people obtain it legally.

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Illegal alien charged with brutal murder just one day after California judge set him loose

Todd Stewart

California’s revolving door criminal justice system appears to have produced another horrifying result.

Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, a Venezuelan illegal alien with a prior criminal record, was facing burglary charges when a judge in Democratic-majority Contra Costa County released him on his own recognizance, a pledge to return to court when scheduled, much like illegal aliens who came into the country illegally promised to show up in court for immigration purposes. Didn't work then; didn't work with this scumcrumpet, but judges aren't judged for their poor judgment.

Just one day later, he allegedly stabbed 68-year-old retiree Todd Stewart to death during an attempted burglary, prosecutors said.

The Department of Homeland Security is now demanding answers, and it is not being particularly subtle about who it believes should be held accountable.

DHS told media outlet Fox News Digital that it had placed an immigration detainer on Iriarte-Valdez on Sept. 23, 2025. The department said he is from Venezuela and holds Spanish citizenship [and is a horrible human being].

"Valdez is charged with murder, inflicting corporal injury on spouse, three counts of burglary, receiving known stolen property, trespassing, entering non-commercial dwelling, loitering, as well as convicted of violation of court ordered protective order," the department said in a statement.

Then DHS had a message for failed Democratic California Gov. Gavin 'Crazy Hands' Newsom.

"CA Governor Gavin Newsom must not release this murderer from jail and turn him over to us so we can REMOVE him from our nation," the department later tweeted about Iriarte-Valdez.

DHS also took aim at the socialist-inspired sanctuary policies that routinely put immigration enforcement at odds with local authorities.

"Sanctuary politicians must stop putting politics above public safety. This type of insanity leads to more crimes and more innocent victims," DHS said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

That last part is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss as mere political rhetoric when someone accused of serious crimes is released and allegedly kills a man the next day.

Iriarte-Valdez is accused of murdering Stewart, 68, in Martinez during an attempted burglary. Stewart had reportedly lived on his quiet neighborhood street for about 40 years.

According to prosecutors, Stewart encountered Iriarte-Valdez in his garage. The suspect allegedly attempted to flee before stabbing Stewart. Obviously, the POS didn't need to kill him if all he wanted was money or whatever. But this blot of human excrement had to kill the man.

Investigators eventually used automated license plate recognition technology, along with tips from members of the community, to identify and track Iriarte-Valdez.

But the real troubling question is how this guy was on the streets in the first place.

Contra Costa prosecutors had already charged Iriarte-Valdez in connection with alleged burglaries at occupied residences in April. He was on pretrial release in that case when he was arrested Tuesday for allegedly violating a home detention condition.

Then, on Wednesday, the court released him on his own recognizance.

Stewart was killed the following day.

Iriarte-Valdez will probably get what is equivalent to a slap on the hand.

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Holiday-Hating Socialist Loses Wisconsin Primary After Democrats Decide They Prefer Someone Who Doesn't Want To Cancel Turkey Day

If King Kong married Francesca Hong, she would be Hong Kong

WASHINGTON — In a shocking upset that has left progressive activists wondering how the working class could possibly reject pure socialist purity, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated Democratic socialist/communist Francesca "Dragon Lady" Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night. 

[H/T The New York Post]

This happened despite polls that had confidently predicted Hong would cruise to victory by double digits despite her history of calling for canceling the cops and Thanksgiving.

Crowley’s campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET, a margin of 0.41 percentage points.

Under Wisconsin law, Hong could have requested a recount since she trailed by under one percentage point, but would have had to pay for it since her deficit was greater than 0.25 percentage points. State law does not provide for automatic recounts in close races, which is probably for the best given how progressive math usually works. And besides, she would have probably lost because most people know how suck-worthy socialism is.

Crowley, 40, [no relation to Candy Crowley] was the late choice of Wisconsin’s Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks. 

Crowley had initially dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez last month, but re-entered the race in an effort to stop the socialist Hong after Barnes quit. Apparently even Democratic power brokers drew the line at nominating someone who once treated America’s founding holidays like a problematic Instagram post.

“To Francesca [Hong], Kelda [Roys], Joel [Brennan] and every candidate who shared their vision for Wisconsin, thank you. They challenged all of us to think bigger about what our state can become,” Crowley’s campaign manager Garren Randolph said in a statement name-checking his candidate’s primary rivals.

“From day one, this campaign has been about what comes next for Wisconsin: making life more affordable, strengthening our schools, creating good-paying jobs, and making sure opportunity reaches every corner of our state,” he added.“Now, David is focused on bringing people together, earning the support of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and anyone who believes Wisconsin is at its best when we work together and deliver results. David is ready to get back to work, build a broad coalition, and win in November.” 

“Our team campaigned clean, our souls are intact and we really made meaningful change for the progressive movement,” Hong’s campaign manager Becky Cooper said after she conceded, while the candidate herself told supporters Tuesday night in Madison: “We have built something that will change politics forever.” 

Changing politics forever apparently includes losing to a moderate after years of faculty-lounge radicalism. Crowley, who will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany in the November general election, would be the Badger State’s first ever black governor. 

“I am so proud of David; he’s the future of our Party, and I can’t wait for him to be our next governor. For now, we polka. Tomorrow, we’re back at work to win,” outgoing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers wrote on X early Wednesday. [Imagine Crowley doing a polka.]

“Tom Tiffany, we’ll see you in November.” 

Hong, who campaigned on hiking taxes for the rich, was snapped wearing black Air Jordan sneakers with a blue jacket and matching heart-printed socks while casting her ballot on Tuesday. The sneakers can retail online for $300, which is quite the look for a former dishwasher, line cook, and chef who dropped out of the University of Wisconsin and now lectures others about the working class. 

The DSA comrade had in recent weeks found herself backtracking in media interviews from past statements in favor of abolishing police departments and canceling Thanksgiving Day. She even railed against Valentine’s Day. This shows us her brilliance by declaring war on chocolate, flowers and love.

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“Police exist to uphold white supremacy,” the dolt had posted on Twitter, now X, in October 2021. “Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

The year before, the Mensa wannabe had also posted, “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” in a now-deleted tweet. She’s since disavowed both of those statements. “I’ve cooked many great Thanksgiving dinners,” she told CBS News ahead of the primary election, “and I’m not going to cancel Thanksgiving.” Sure. If she had won, what would stop her?

Critics in both Republican and Democratic circles expressed concerns that Hong’s past radical comments and policies would spell trouble for her in the November general election, at least for now, as history has shown us, the Democrats keep moving farther and farther to the extreme left once they get in power.

Two of the biggest socialist-communist in US politics, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Commie-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Commie-NY), kept their distance from Hong after campaigning hard for far-left America-hating, anti-Semite, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ahead of his primary win last week in nearby Michigan.

“She is a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica,” wrote ex-Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod of Hong in an X post last week. 

“This tweet is a perfect example of why the consultant class keeps losing elections,” responded comrade Dragon Lady. “They’re totally clueless, and they’re hellbent on keeping working-class people out of politics. I’ve spent more time in kitchens than faculty lounges. Perhaps you’d like to come to Wisconsin and work a Friday night dinner rush with me?” she taunted. [Her famous Chinese-style dish named in honor of Joe Biden, Sum Dum Fak is so good that people crap their pants over it.]

Crowley deftly positioned himself in the moderate lane, telling reporters Monday: “There are a lot of people who are scared. She is a self-proclaimed socialist. There are a lot of people worried about not just this party, but this country moving in that direction,” he added. 

Crowley had reminded Wisconsin Democrats a day earlier: “Our ultimate goal is to make sure we don’t have a MAGA extremist occupying the governor’s office.” 

In an interview with Politico Friday, Evers wouldn’t commit to backing Hong if she won the primary. “I want to have a chance to take a breath, and once that’s in a position, we’ll see,” he said, adding: “But I anticipate that David will win.” 

In other primary results that somehow failed to feature holiday cancellation as a core platform: In South Carolina, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone and Rep. Ralph Norman advanced to a special Aug. 25 runoff to determine who will receive the Republican nomination for Senate following the death last month of Darline’s brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham. 

Minnesota voters will elect their first female governor in November, as Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Republican state House Speaker Lisa DeMuth won their respective primaries. Progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig to win the Democratic nomination for US Senate and will take on Republican Michele Tafoya, a former Emmy-winning NFL sideline reporter. 

In Connecticut, 78-year-old Democratic Rep. John Larson, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1998, lost his primary to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, 46.

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Commie election hopeful didn't oppose child grooming: she might be Wisconsin's next governor

The Dragon Lady

You have to be kidding me. The socialist frontrunner in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary hired a self-described “sex worker” to run her campaign and voted against a law that bans grooming children.

State Rep. Francesca Hong, who held a 20-point advantage in the polls going into Tuesday’s primary, was one of just six Wisconsin lawmakers to vote against a measure that bars adults from “engaging in a course of conduct, pattern of behavior, or series of acts with the intention to condition, seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child” to participate in sexual activity or pornography.

The bill overwhelmingly passed the Wisconsin State Assembly 93-6 and cleared the state Senate by voice vote before Democratic Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) signed it into law in March.

Hong has not publicly explained why she voted against the legislation. Others who voted against argued that it was redundant to existing state law, but they're probably okay with kids getting groomed.

The legislation initially came about as a response to the case of Christian Enwright, 31, a teacher from Kenosha who pled guilty to 15 misdemeanor counts of “disorderly conduct” in connection with his interactions with students, including a 14-year-old girl. 

“[Enwright] engaged in classic grooming behavior, preying on the vulnerability of at least one female student, under the guise of being a mentor, to foster and further a predatory relationship with her,” a school district investigator said. 

In addition to inspiring the new anti-grooming law, Enright’s actions sparked a lawsuit by a student’s parents against both him and the school district. Media outlets did not publish the names of either the girl or her parents because she still attended school in the district. 

The Original Dragon Lady

Hong entered Tuesday’s primary as the clear polling frontrunner because socialism is the new cool thing with dolts.

The democratic socialist has raised eyebrows during the campaign with a number of her old social media posts in which she called for the cancellation of Thanksgiving and suggested abolishing the Senate. She has also called for defunding the police, a position she’s tried to temper throughout her campaign, as recently as 2021, saying, “Police exist to uphold white supremacy. Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

Dolts eat this garbage up.

Hong also made headlines with her support for legalizing prostitution, a point she punctuated by hiring an OnlyFans model to manage her campaign.

Folks, this is the Democrat Party now. A socialist who won’t ban grooming kids and puts a sex worker in charge of her campaign is leading the pack to be governor. 

Wisconsin better wake up, but don't hold your breath.

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Florida awards Zohran Mamdani as their "Economic Developer of the Year" in Times Sq. campaign

"Hey Zohran, thanks for the jobs" --love, Florida

Communism [the left calls it socialism] is apparently a strong motivator to get people to run as fast as they can away from where it's imposed. New York City, run by comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is one case in point. The beneficiary of New York's exodus in large part is Florida.

At the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, basically the heart of the Big Appel, a massive new billboard is sending an infuriating message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" [H/T Fox News.]

The United States is now facing a choice between free enterprise or more government control under socialism. Florida is having none of that and has launched a Times Square campaign naming  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year." Let this once again show the [wo]man in the street, how progressive socialist policies with their all encompassing taxing, are driving businesses and families to conservative-run states such as Florida and Texas.

Florida now has a $1,800,000,000,000.35 record-breaking wealth migration. That's even more money than Elon Musk has earned.

"We wanted to thank him [Mamdani] for the jobs, the companies, the people that they're pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida," Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that's paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true," Wilson said. "And there's a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that's never worked anywhere, and it won't work in America."

"What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It's bad for New Yorkers. It's bad for New York. It's very harmful for the country," Wilson continued. "We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we're hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise."

In addition to putting the blame on Mamdani, the Chamber’s campaign highlights its argument that lower tax rates yield higher total state revenues by incentivizing growth, while blue-state tax hikes trigger a tax-based exodus. According to the Chamber, citing IRS migration data, Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, while New York loses approximately $1.1 million per hour. The Chamber also says Florida gains a net 551 residents daily, compared to New York losing 115 residents daily. Now that's an enormous difference.

"Heading South" [AI generated]

According to the Chamber's press release, New York’s state budget is over twice Florida’s, and New York City’s municipal budget alone is more than $8 billion higher than the entire Florida state budget.

"What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York," Wilson explained, showing that comrades like Mamdani, know nothing about economics and are dangerous to their constituents and the country as a whole.

So just like Barack Obama was the gun industry's best salesman, Mamdani is Florida's best jobs head hunter.

"Florida's lowered taxes over 50 times in the last 15 years. And we have record revenues coming in because people want to be here. And when the economy grows, tax revenues grow. That's how free enterprise works," Wilson said.

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