Reading George Fox

I wrote the following as a comment on Lawyers, Guns, & Money the other day but it got flagged as spam because Disqus doesn’t like VPNs: It’s actually more likely that Mamdani will be the next Laguardia. The smart money is assuming he will win.   And the local (as opposed to state) power brokers are also bending the knee.   Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn is a literal crook (she’s embezzled party funds) and has been fighting off the progressive block’s attempt to remove her for years. But she’s also a survivor and she ditched Adams for Mamdani shortly after he won the primary.   It’s the state level Dems in Congress who are freaking out and they are notoriously bad at winning (Pelosi called them out for losing the House in 2022). They are attempting to use Westchester & Long Island talking points in the five boroughs which is only going to consolidate local Dem voters to vote party line in an anti-Trump election.   Mamdani ended up beating Cuomo by 12 points, which is why you have David Patterson (a has been) trying to get two of Adams, Cuomo, & Walden to drop out. Given the egos involved, it…