Lucas: Hate won’t work in the New York mayor’s office
No sooner was Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York than the city payroll dropped from employees to That is the number of city workers Mamdani who has never run anything or had a real job will oversee when he is sworn into office in January to run a city of eight million people Boston by contrast a city of people has a city work force of particular employees and a mayor Michelle Wu who already has four years as mayor under her belt Mamdani is new He is just a three-term member of the New York Assembly where he did have a staff of a half dozen people and an absentee record of fifty percent Now the Democrat Socialist will be mayor of free-market New York City headquarters and financial capital of the United States with a population that includes one million Jews He is also pro-Hamas anti-Israel and a sharp critic of the racist New Your Police Department which he wants to defund and is unlike Wu who has a strong working relationship with the Boston cops We have to make clear Mamdani mentioned in a of late resurfaced video from that when the boot of the NYPD has its boot on your neck it has been laced by the IDF the Israeli Defense Force So good luck with that The first city employee to flee the new administration was New York Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker who is Jewish He handed in his resignation the day after Mamdani s win Next in line could be respected and effective tough on crime New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch who is also Jewish That resignation could come when Mamdani who has yet to condemn the Intifada which calls for violence against the Jews orders Tisch to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu as he promised should Netanyahu come to New York Or it could come in January when specific three to four thousand New York cops are scheduled to leave the department reducing the number of cops to around the lowest number in decades That is more cops leaving than the makeup of the entire Boston Police Department While it is natural to compare Mamdani with Wu in that they are both young politically triumphant anti- Trump progressives there are differences as well While Boston is not New York Wu knows how to run a major city and has done so for four years Before that Wu was a veteran member of the Boston City Council Mamdani has not run anything Another is that Wu is a Christian who was born in Chicago after her parents migrated to the U S from Taiwan She has no hang-up with Jews or with anyone else Mamdani a naturalized citizen was born in Uganda to Muslim parents of Indian descent who migrated to the U S when he was seven years old His relationship with the Jewish group in New York has been of major concern While Wu is Roman Catholic she does not wear her religion on her sleeve except when she testifies before Congress Muslim Mamdani does What the two have in common though is their hatred of Donald Trump as witnessed by their Trump taunting voting process night win speeches on Tuesday Both acted as though they had just defeated Trump Wu did not even have an opponent Wu objecting to ICE s raids rounding up criminal illegal immigrants called Trump a criminal who acts like a king But a funny thing happened While Wu was slamming Trump ICE agents swooped down on a car wash in Allston and scooped up eight individuals suspected among other things of being in the country illegally The king struck again Standing up to Trump is going to take a lot more than words Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at peter lucas bostonherald com Mayor Michelle Wu Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill Boston Herald File
