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America’s Hatred Mayor? A Pastoral Accountability Special on Zohran Mamdani · Voices Of Life

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Welcome to the Voices of Life podcast, the ministry
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of the Church for Life. I'm Pastor David. Before
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we begin today's episode, I want to speak plainly
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and pastorally to every listener. This podcast
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is not political, it is not partisan, and it
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is not produced to defend or attack any political
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party or ideology. The Church for Life and this
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ministry, Voices of Life, does not care whether
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an elected official calls themselves a democrat
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socialist a republican a democrat or an independent
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or even a communist titles do not impress us
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and parties do not intimidate us what we do care
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about and what we are called to care about are
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the results of an elected leader's actions how
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those actions affect the moral character of a
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city how those actions influence the unity or
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division among its people and how those actions
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shape the spiritual climate the religious harmony
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and the ethical direction of the community they
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serve when leaders decisions begin to fracture
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the moral fabric of a city when rhetoric fuels
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hostility instead of healing when policies deepen
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division instead of strengthening community when
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governance becomes ideological performance instead
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of a responsible stewardship the church has a
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biblical responsibility to speak, not as a political
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actor, but as a moral witness. This episode is
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produced for one reason, to hold an elected leader
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accountable for the consequences of his leadership.
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Not his party, not his slogans, not his ideology,
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but his actions. And the impact those actions
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have on the people he was entrusted to serve.
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We do this with clarity, we do this with truth,
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and we do this with conviction that public office
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is a public trust. And when a trust is strained,
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the church must shine light, not heat. Today's
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episode is not about politics, it's about accountability,
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character, and the moral health of the city.
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Let's begin. Using the power of New York City
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government to pursue wealth redistribution, rent
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regulation, expanded public services, immigrant
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protections and restrictions on corporate and
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police power. New York once had a mayor called
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America's Mayor. You may remember him, Rudy Giuliani,
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whose image was built. on crime reduction, 9
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-11 leadership, and a close relationship with
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New York's Jewish community. Today, some critics
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say the city has something very different. America's
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hatred mayor, Zoran Mondani. Now that phrase
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is an editorial characterization, not a legal
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verdict. Even his harshest critics can't point
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to proof that he personally ordered violence
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against Jews or any other group. In fact, he
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has publicly condemned anti -Semitism. and Islamophobia
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and kept the city's office to combat anti -Semitism
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in place. But you have to look at people's actions
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or lack of action. And it's the lack of action,
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I think, that focuses on his true intention.
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So when you look at his campaign promises, let's
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start there, and how they've turned into disputed
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failures, half launches, and ideological experiments,
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the question becomes unavoidable. Has New York
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traded America's mayor, for a leader whose radical
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agenda is breaking the very city he claims to
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liberate. Remember, Zorin Mamdani only had his
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citizenship eight years ago. Does he really know?
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He wasn't raised here, so does he really know
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what it is to be an American and what Americans
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deserve and what we believe in? Today on Voices
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of Life, we're going to walk through Zorin Mamdani's
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record since taking office, promise by promise.
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controversy by controversy, and ask whether his
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free New York vision is actually making New York
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less free, less safe, and less stable. Membrani
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took office on January 1st, 2026 at age 34, telling
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New Yorkers, M. Donnie took office on January
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1, 2026 at age 34, telling New Yorkers, we will
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govern expansively and audaciously. He framed
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the agenda as freedom, not just benefits, but
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new definition of liberty funded by higher taxes
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on the wealthy and expanded municipal power.
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His core promises were bold. Universal child
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care. Rent freeze on roughly 1 million rent -stabilized
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apartments. free buses across the city, government
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-run grocery stores, higher taxes on millionaires
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and luxury properties. On paper, it sounded good,
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like a socialist dream. Government as a primary
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provider of child care, housing stability, transportation
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and food. But in reality, the price tag was enormous.
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Billions per year. and depended on Albany approving
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new taxes that Governor Kathy Hochul has repeatedly
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refused to authorize. And you have to remember,
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the city of New York is one of the most expensive
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places to live. I mean, tolls across the bridges
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are like $16. And they still have a deficit.
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I mean, their budget is, I think, larger than
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the state of Florida's budget, and they still
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can't make ends meet. But yet, he wants to spend
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more money. and thinks he's going to get it from
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more taxes on the rich. So from the beginning,
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Mamdani sold New Yorkers a sweeping affordability
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revolution without actually having the tools
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to pay for it, or even a real plan. Let's start
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with one of the most symbolic promises, government
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-run grocery stores. This has been done in other
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cities, so let's see what he said here. During
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the campaign, Mamdani pitched municipal groceries
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as the answer to food costs. One store per borough,
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cheaper staples, and the direct challenge to
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private grocers. Early reporting put capital,
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and he said, Early reporting put the capital
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needed around $30 million. But then as the plan
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unfolded and the reality hit him, because apparently
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he did not do his homework, the plan is now being
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described to cost $70 million in capital funding
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for five stores. More than double. More than
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double the initial figure and roughly triple
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what many voters heard. the simple campaign messaging.
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Economists and small business owners are sounding
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the alarms. You have independent grocers out
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there. You have some chain stores too. But the
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independent grocers warn that the city subsidized
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stores will undercut them and destroy their family
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businesses. Price stability is in doubt. Can
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the city really keep a staple of 30 % cheaper
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without massive ongoing subsidies? I mean, the...
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The typical margin in the stores is under 5%.
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So that means that the city would have to pay
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75 % of the cost of your groceries. On top of
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everything else. On top of running the stores.
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Doesn't make a lot of sense. But let's go on.
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Legal challenges are already forming, accusing
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the city of unfair competition and using taxpayer
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money to pick winners and losers in the grocery
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market. Meanwhile, other cities have already
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tried government grocery store experiments with
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closures, financial losses, and political backlash.
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They were failures. You should always learn from
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history. That's why history is so important.
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But McDonough is pushing New York into a model
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that has a track record of failure everywhere
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else. But with a bigger price tag and more ideological
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zeal. Now add the pietiteer tax fiasco. The city
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began notifying property owners about a surcharge
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in July. The idea? Tax non -primary luxury residences.
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to fund public programs so that means if you
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were only a part -time new yorker you lived elsewhere
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in the country that was your somewhere else in
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the country was your primary residence or even
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somewhere else in the state and you had a condo
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or home in the city of new york you would have
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to pay this tax but here's the reality the city
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published a supplemental property role of over
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960 000 records far beyond the 11 ,000 to 31
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,000 properties originally expected to be affected.
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Owners of primary residence and even a working
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-class neighborhood found themselves on the list.
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A shopping mall appeared in the database. That's
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how well they took a look at these things. Privacy
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concerns exploded as names and addresses were
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made easily searchable. That means that if I'm
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a criminal... And I'm wanting to look for some
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targets. You just gave me a target list because
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now I know who's got the money, where they live.
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I have that all in the database. The court, the
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court, someone, of course they went to court,
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you know, the property owners did because the
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city required an affirmative action on the property
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owner to prove. That they don't need to pay that
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tax. Not the other way around where the city
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needed to prove it. Remember, it's always the
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government that needs to prove their case. But
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no, they flipped it on its head. Making the citizens
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defend themselves. Wait a minute, I do live here
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full time. And my property is not worth what
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you're saying it is. So a lawsuit was filed in
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Staten Island. Courts have already paused the
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rollout after litigation, and critics call the
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entire implementation mislaunched, sloppy, attempt
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class -based taxation that hurt ordinary New
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Yorkers and sowed confusion. And interestingly
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enough, when the court order came, it said that
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the database is to be taken down. Well, we here
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at Voices of Life, four days after the order,
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the database was still up in defiance of the
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court order. Now, whether the judge took action
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against Mayor Mamdani personally or the city,
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either fined him or jailed him or whatever we're
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going to do, I don't know. We haven't gone that
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far, but we do know that four days after the
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court order, the city was not in compliance.
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So when we talk about Mamdani's promises, we're
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not just talking about ideology. We're talking
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about execution. Somebody that never worked a
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day in their life, how can they understand? how
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anything is done you have to surround yourself
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with good people not people just because they
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share your ideology and clearly ma 'am downey
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has surrounded himself with inexperienced people
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that have a specific ideology but have no idea
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how government runs so government groceries and
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appear to tear tax are perfect examples of big
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slogans turning into messy disputed failures
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Mamdani has sought to substantially reform or
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constrain some police practices while simultaneously
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retaining the NYPD and publicly supporting officers
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performing their duties. Now on policing, Mamdani
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campaigned as a critic of the New York Police
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Department's tactics, promising to dismantle
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units like Strategic Response Group, limiting
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cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
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All those wonderful things. And yet, and I think
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I heard him say that he was going to ask the
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police commissioner for her to step down to deputy
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police commissioner. But yet, once in office,
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he found himself standing next to police commissioner
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Jessica Tisch after shootings, praising officers
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after a Times Square attack, and touting reductions
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in murders and shootings. And they never reduced
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her. It kept her, and she still is as of today,
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the police commissioner. So, once he got there,
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he probably couldn't find anybody to take the
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job, but that's a whole other issue. But the
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tension between radical rhetoric and practical
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dependence on NYPD exploded in a very personal
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controversy. His wife planned a trip to Lebanon
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and Syria. Yes, the countries, not a city in
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the United States, the countries. The countries
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that are currently under conflict, that have
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wars going on. And he wanted the NYPD to protect
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his wife. Okay, taxpayers to pay police who have
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no jurisdiction, no authority, nothing. They
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couldn't even bring their guns there unless they
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got some kind of approval from the State Department
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and that would require diplomacy with that particular
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country and they would have to agree to it. This
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made no sense whatsoever. And considering that
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his wife is a Muslim, why would she need protection
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anyway? But nonetheless, multiple outlets reported
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that Mandani's office initially said the NYPD
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would accompany his wife, Rama Duwaji, on a personal
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trip to countries on the State Department's Do
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Not Travel list. So, He wants to endanger U .S.
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citizens' lives. He doesn't care. Apparently
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he doesn't care. He's only been a citizen eight
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years. So, you know, it's not any skin off of
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him. Because he's going to order somebody to
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go, hey, you go with my wife. Well, a spokesperson
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claimed the NYPD had strongly recommended a security
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detail. The NYPD publicly contradicted that.
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His office is saying that the NYPD is the one
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that suggested this. And NYPD said, no, we didn't
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say that. They do not send officers to level
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four advisory countries for discretionary personal
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travel. That makes no sense whatsoever. She wasn't
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on a diplomatic mission or anything like that.
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But anyway. And Donnie later called it a miscommunication.
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But the police union leaders blasted the idea
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that detectives would deploy overseas for a private
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vacation at taxpayer expense. Again, not his
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money. He doesn't care. So, we have a mayor who
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criticizes police power at home, tries to dismantle
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specialized units, yet whose office reported
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to have sought NYPD protection for personal family
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trip into an active conflict region. That is
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not just ideological inconsistency. It's a picture
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of privilege and double standards, limiting police
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resources for ordinary New Yorkers while expecting
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those same resources to be available for his
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own household. Recent reporting has revealed
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that Maandani's administration has maintained
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a private signal group involving approximately
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200 social media influencers. One of the most
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disturbing developments in Van Romney's first
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eight months isn't a tax or a bus fare. It's
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how he communicates. Investigations have revealed
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a private signal group of roughly 200 social
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media influences tied to his administration.
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According to the report, influencers receive
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privileged access to city hall information and
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policy messaging. Some were unpaid loyalists,
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others were poorly paid contractors funded by
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the city's agencies. Their content often appears
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as independent commentary, but not labeled as
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government -sponsored messaging. These people
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were paid somewhere between $5 ,000 and $25 ,000
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per campaign. And yet, it makes it seem like
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it's someone in the public saying this, but it's
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not. deliberate social rhetoric of an ideology
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that he's pushing at government expense through
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these social influencers. The city council has
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scheduled a hearing to ask some basic questions.
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Not only on this, but on other things that he
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has messed up on. But they did ask for this particular
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thing. Who was paid? How much? Which agencies
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funded them? Were posts required to disclose
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governmental relationships? Were signal messages
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auto -deleted by passing public records law?
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And that was the other thing, that supposedly
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these things were deleted after a while. This
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isn't just modern PR. It looks a lot like taxpayer
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-funded propaganda, using influencers to push
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a radical agenda while sidestepping traditional
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journalistic scrutiny. At the same time, critics
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point to infrastructure neglect, complaints about
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delayed maintenance, and... uneven attention
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to basic city services, a governing style that
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seems to be more focused on national and international
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ideological battles, Israel, Hindu nationalism,
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immigration, than on fixing streets, subways,
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and public facilities. That's what the mayor
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is supposed to do. He is not the mayor of the
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world. He is the mayor of New York City. When
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a mayor spends more energy cultivating influences
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than maintaining infrastructure, New Yorkers
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are right to ask. whose image is being protected,
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and whose city is being neglected. And yet, the
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last time the city council asked him to appear
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before him to explain some things from the mislaunching
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of the taxes, for example, like that, nobody
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from his office, including himself, showed up.
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He will not take the time to explain himself.
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And you know why? Probably he can't. He probably
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doesn't have the answers. So the easy thing is
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avoid the questions, and that's what he's done
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up to now. But I compliment the city council
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for trying to hold him accountable, trying to
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get to the truth. And I hope they continue to
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do this until they get the truth. Criticists
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can point to his highly confrontational rhetoric
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toward Israel, his repeated attacks on Netanyahu.
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his earlier promise to arrest Netanyahu, his
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support for BDS, his refusal historically to
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recognize Israel specifically as a Jewish state.
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So the label America's Hatred Mayor comes largely
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from Mondami's posture toward Israel, wealth
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and power. Starting with Israel, he has been
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one of the country's most outspoken critics.
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of Israeli's government. He supported BDS, refused
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to endorse Israel specifically as a Jewish state,
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and even pledged during his campaign to enforce
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an international criminal court warrant against
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Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli Prime Minister
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entered New York. Can you imagine that? First
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of all, the United States has no relationship
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with the international criminal court. It's a
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farce. It's... I think in a last... 14 years
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if you look this up, since 2012, all the prosecutors
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happen to be Muslims. How did that happen? Why
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is there not some diversity? Very interesting
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question. But anyway, we don't have a relation
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with him. There's no way he could have arrested
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Benjamin Netanyahu under any circumstances. But
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even after he found out he couldn't, he was still
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urging the federal government to take action
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against Benjamin Netanyahu. This is not the job.
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of a city mayor i don't care if you're city of
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new york city of miami city of los angeles that's
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not your job and after taking office he revoked
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adam's era israel related policies these were
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wonderful policies in the city's embrace of the
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ihra definition of anti -semitism while insisting
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he still opposes anti -semitism okay you oppose
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it but you took away the policies related to
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it How does that work? Alright, moving on to
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wealth. This is where he really messed up. He
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has aggressively pursued higher taxes on millionaires
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and luxury properties. The Pierre de Tax and
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the broader Free New York agenda are explicitly
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designed to redistribute wealth from the rich
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to fund public services. Well, that's a problem.
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Number one, When people who may have wealth realize
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they're going to be getting this tax, they're
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going to move. That's been happening. He's lost
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businesses because of his actions when he made
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some silly commercials where he pointed out individuals.
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These are not actions of a mayor of a large city.
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These are the actions of someone who is an immature
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child. That's really what I have to say. I don't
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know what his parents did, but they missed something
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somewhere along the line. He has no moral grounding.
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And that is a problem for the leader of a major
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city. And that's why we're doing this today.
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This is part of it. So let's talk about business.
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He has targeted Amazon with fines, restrictions,
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legislative pressure, accusing the company of
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exploiting workers and communities. Yet, also
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launched Open for Small Business. a deregulatory
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initiative with more than 50 reforms to cut red
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tape for restaurants, bodegas, and barbershops,
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and even with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to discuss
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government efficiency. So is he anti -business?
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Not exactly. He's hostile toward concentrated
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corporate power while trying to present himself
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as a friend of small business. though many small
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business owners see his grocery plan and tax
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policies as existential threats. The key is Mamdami's
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record shows coherent democratic socialist ideology,
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tax the wealthy, regulate landlords, corporations,
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protect tenants and illegal immigrants, challenge
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Israel and traditional institutions. Critics
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argue that this ideology in practice punishes
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success, destabilizes investment, and inflames
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social divisions, especially around Israel and
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Jewish representation, without delivering the
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promised affordability resolution. And he even
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has gone further trying to take private property
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away from owners by doing a campaign of excessive
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Code violation. Well, if he set his code department
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out on the New York -owned housing, they could
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be there all year and get all these violations
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and the city of New York would owe millions of
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dollars to itself. But instead, they're targeting
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the mom -and -pop -owned apartment. And then
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he's going to try to take it, and then he even
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said in his statements that we'll either give
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it to the tenants or we'll give it to a non -profit.
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You know what that is? That's not even socialism.
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That's communism. So he says he's a democratic
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socialist, but it sounds like he's a communist.
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His actions show or demonstrate communism. So
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he can call himself whatever he wants to call.
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We all know when we did a podcast, and we're
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doing a series right now on how socialism and
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communism, Marxism, Leninism, is all detrimental
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to faith, to the church, to moral standing. Because
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the state becomes God. And that's the direction
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he's going in with this. At the same time, several
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of his programs have produced tangible results,
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including expanded child care, rent stabilization,
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and reductions in some categories of violent
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crime. Let's be fair here. Mamdani can point
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to some real outcomes. A rent freeze for roughly
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1 million regulated apartments. The landlords
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argue the process was politically manipulated
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and one representative resigned in protest. But
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supposedly there was emails or texts from the
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mayor's office to the member of this board to
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vote a certain way and do a certain thing. And
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that's not the way government works. That's not
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transparent. And I know there's an investigation
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into that. So they don't know how that's going
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to come out. But freezing rent is fine as long
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as you freeze taxes and you freeze insurance
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costs and maintenance costs. If you freeze those
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three things, there's not one private owner that
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would care if you froze rent. But what's the
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reality? Maintenance costs continue to go up
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because of inflation. Property taxes continue
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to go up. and insurance costs continue to go
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up, but you want to freeze the rent so that the
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owner of the properties should be paying for
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the tenants stay there? That makes no sense.
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Number two, expanded child care seats and elimination
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of out -of -pocket costs for thousands of low
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-income families despite serious implementation
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failures and providers forced to borrow money
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while waiting for city payments. City of New
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York does not pay on time. And if you're a very
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small business running a child care, you know
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what? You've got to have some money out there,
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probably I'd say three to four months worth of
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capital to run your business. Without it, you'll
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go bankrupt because you're not going to get reimbursed
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as quickly as they say. And there's already enough
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programs out there for pre -K and things like
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that. You know, who's to say what is low -income
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families? Why are there so many low -income families
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in a city that costs a lot to live in? I mean,
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if I can't afford to live there, I'm going to
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go move. I'll move outside the city, other parts
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of New York, or I can move to some states that
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probably, I could probably live on 20 % of what
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I'd be paying in New York. So if I'm really low
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-income, why am I staying there? It's a question
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to ask. Well, there's declines in murders and
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shootings, even as felony assaults against seniors
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and other categories remain elevated. Not sure
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where that's going. I don't know. That's probably
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still because the police department is still
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intact the way it is, the broken windows policy,
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things like that. Not really sure where that
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is. I'd have to kind of look at that and then
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might just do that. Might just do a follow -up
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on NYPD and do a special podcast on that. So
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the story isn't simple. It's not total failure
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and it's not total success. But it is a pattern.
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Big promises sold as moral imperatives. Partial
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delivery with serious collateral damage. Ideological
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battles that overshadow basic governance. And
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influencer networks and media operations that
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blur the line between public information. propaganda
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we don't want propaganda we want the truth we
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want information that helps us you know we are
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all intelligent if you tell us the news this
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goes for all media outlets you tell us the news
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the way it is we're gonna formulate our own opinions
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based on our morals and values but when you spin
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it when you say it sensationalize it when you
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make it up you're not helping anybody you're
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helping yourself and you certainly are not following
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the responsibility as a journalist under the
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first amendment which means you're not protected
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you're not a journalist and that part is what's
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very troubling is where journalism has gone today
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where everything is spun around so many times
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okay what is the truth where did we go but for
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this the question we opened with from america's
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mayor to america's hatred mayor isn't a slogan.
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It's an invitation to accountability. If Mandani's
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agenda is truly about justice, then it must be
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judged not by hashtags and speeches, but by whether
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New Yorkers can afford to live in their city,
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whether small businesses survive, whether public
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infrastructure is maintained, whether law enforcement
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is used fairly, not for personal trips, not as
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a political punching bag. and whether taxpayer
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money funds services, not secret influencers'
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campaigns. You know, and one last thing we didn't
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bring up and didn't talk about so much, Mamdani's
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administration has some kind of foreign affairs
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office, and that foreign affairs official was
30:29
going to reach out to Iran. Iran, who we have
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a war with, who we have active negotiations with,
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what in the heck does the city of New York, think
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they need to do with Iran when we have economic
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sanctions and everything else. Didn't go through
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appropriate channels like the State Department,
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didn't do any of that. And that just shows you
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Mamdani's careless and radical agenda. See, to
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him, the Iranians are his people. That's what
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he believes in. He was raised that way in Uganda
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where he was born. later South Africa, back to
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Uganda, and finally the United States. So that's
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a whole story in itself. But we are concerned
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as a church as to what he is doing as mayor of
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New York City. This has been Voices of Life special
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on Zoran Memdani, America's hatred mayor, and
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the contested reality of his first months in
31:31
office. We may do some future episodes. We'll
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dig deeper into the influencer scandal, the city
31:37
council hearings, and the human stories behind
31:39
those policies, the grocers facing closure, the
31:42
landlords navigating new enforcement, the illegal
31:45
immigrant families caught in this sanctuary rhetoric,
31:48
and the neighborhood crime. And we will be keeping
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an eye on it. We will monitor it, and I do promise
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a follow -up. Until then, I'm Pastor David. Stay
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informed. Stay discerning. And remember, freedom
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without truth is just a slogan. Until next time,
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this is Voices of Life, a ministry of the Church
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for Life. Thank you for joining us.