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One month into his term as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has literally weathered his first storm, and the results have been less than glowing.
Sixteen people died on the frozen streets of New York before Mamdani reversed his take on forcing the homeless into shelters on bitter cold nights. Many city crosswalks, particularly in the outer boroughs, remained impassable as snow turned into rock-solid boulders of ice, and garbage piled up almost as high as the snow, as sanitation crews that were forced into snow removal had to play a losing game of catch-up.
Yet all of Mamdani’s sycophants wanted to talk about how resplendent the mayor looked in his new winter jacket, made just for the press conferences. Vickie Paladino (R-19) represents northern Queens in the City Council; she appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to hammer Hizzoner for worrying more about his wardrobe than his city.
Paladino told host Larry Mendte that Mamdani talks a good game, but actions speak louder than words: “Our sanitation guys, they were out 24-7. Now, as a leader, as a mayor, you get in front and you say a few things, right, but you hand it over to the sanitation commissioner, who happens to be a really good guy, who happens to know the job, who has people underneath him, thank God, that are still around for that many years that they can handle the situation. Mamdani is all about the photo ops and what he’s going to do. He is an absolute failure.”
Paladino then invoked the mayor who is best remembered for bungling a snowstorm to make a comparison: “I was around for John V. Lindsay, and I remember very clearly hearing in my house, ‘He’s done’. This is ridiculous; our outer boroughs were forgotten about… [but] he gets up and plays weather man again, that we’ve got sub-zero temperatures coming. You know what? He doesn’t know a thing about what he’s talking about. This is absolute failure, and we’re going to see more.”
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