AOC doesn't want to be New York City mayor. Most likely, she has bigger plans
AOC doesn't want to be New York City mayor. Most likely, she has bigger plans
She called for Eric Adams to stand down — but she doesn’t want his job. Meanwhile, seasoned New York politicians fear a primary challenge from her. That’s exactly why she isn’t launching one
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Being NYC Mayor is harder than being President. You've got the same 24/7 spotlight and much less actual power.
If Giuliani could do it how hard can it be? Seems that you don't even have to have a grasp on reality.
9/11 era Giuliani was more coherent. The man is losing it.
You mean the same Giuliani who lost an election and took a mob of racisr police to occupy city hall to prevent a black guy from being sworn in as mayor?
Someone lied to you.
David Dinkins was Mayor before Giuliani.
He lost his election.
Rudy did bring a mob of cops to city hall, but they never "occupied" it.
I hate Rudy as much as anyone, but keep the facts straight.
9/11 era Giuliani was also more or less working directly with the Russian mob, because he did a great job in the years leading up to it of scraping out the Italian mob (say what you will about them, but at the end of the day, they were staunch anti-fascists), leaving an enormous power vacuum that the Russian mob quietly filled. It was very much a situation of “better the devil you know” that was categorically and intentionally ignored. Organized crime is of course not great, but at the same time, the Russian mob is on a whole different level - not to mention, they’re effectively a branch of the Russian state.
The man is losing it.
LOL that happened a long time ago.
9/11 era Giuliani was more coherent. The man is losing it.
Chronic alcoholism finally caught up with him.
In some ways you have more concentrated power.
To quote a mayor of NYC: "I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have."