Originally Posted by
choddo
As a Brit and therefore someone that assumes sarcasm unless there’s strong evidence to the contrary, even I needed that clarification.
But then I haven’t really been observing Mamdani’s progress. I do suspect he’s slightly less of a crook than Guliani or Adams.
I hope you're right. It's too soon to say about Mamdani, and we know political forces can make an honest person into a crook. I don't remember corruption by Giuliani while he was mayor, but there was plenty when he was one of Trump's henchmen. He was a nasty person with bad policies, but that's not the same as corruption. He didn't understand that the government can't regulate the people's speech.
Adams was a huge disappointment. Right before he ran for mayor, I met him at a cyclist rally called a die-in where we all lay on the ground to simulate all the dying of cyclists by car drivers. He was a cyclist and sympathized with us. But then he became totally corrupt, and he canceled projects for making streets safer because his big donors didn't want them to go through.