Why I am voting for Andrew Cuomo for Mayor, By Suzanne Murphy

I am voting for Andrew Cuomo because he is the most experienced of the three candidates running for Mayor of NYC.

I am voting for Andrew Cuomo because he is the only candidate who can beat Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani as an existential threat to my way of life as a New Yorker and as a Jewish woman raising a daughter here.

Mamdani’s only real job has been as an Assemblyman and, in that position, he didn’t show up for 50pct of his votes. Would you have a job if you only showed up 50pct of the time?

Zohran Mamdani embraces socialism. Not an American ideal. As Winston Churchill famously said, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries”. That is not how I want to live and I think is patently un-American.

Mamdani vilifies the police who keep us safe.

Mamdani has no plan for job creation in our city. In the first half of 2025, 6000 net new jobs were created in NYC down from 66,000 in the same year prior.

Mamdani refuses to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada“, which is code for “kill Jews”.
Mamdani has said that the war in Gaza is a Genocide. This actually marginalizes the true meaning of the term and is wholly inaccurate. He does not denounce Hamas or the fact that they put babies in ovens and killed women during the act of raping them. He is also deafeningly silent on the violence the Palestinians are now unleashing on each other.

Mamdani happily poses for photo-ops with someone who has been branded an “unindicted coconspirator of the first World Trade Center attack“ and whose son has been accused of having ties to Hamas.

Mamdani wants to legalize “sex work”. In the words of an erudite friend of mine, “In my view, “sex work” is not work. It is violence against the girls, women boys and men who are trafficked into it, either due to extreme parental abuse, psychiatric fragility, enormous poverty, and a complete lack of economic alternatives. “Working” as a prostitute, is like working in a plutonium factory and being assured of a very short shelf life. Although there are rare exceptions, I do not see women of wealth choosing this so-called job.” More than that “sex work” is clearly forbidden by Mamdani’s own religion.

Mamdani is anti LGBTQ, maintaining dual citizenship in a country that at best says gays are criminals and at worst wants them punished with the death penalty. He has been seen with and embraced the leaders that espouse these views. Actions speak louder than the words he may have used to say his views are otherwise.

These and MANY more are the reasons why I SAY NO TO ZO!

I firmly support Andrew Cuomo to be the next Mayor of NYC. Decent rational human beings who care about NYC should do the same!