FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “The Lost Generation”
LIBERAL PARTY OF NEW YORK
AUGUST 11, 2025
CONTACT: MARTIN HASSNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PHONE: 914-708-7805
Zohran Mamdani is the poster boy for the Democratic Socialist organization and for America’s “Lost Generation” – the worst educated 30 year olds in our history.
His primary victory to become the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York, has been met with panic by the city’s business and corporate leadership with charges that he is a communist, a socialist and has a radical agenda.
All of these charges give him an elevated status that he clearly does not deserve and ignores the fact that he has no training to run anything.
In fact, he is nothing more than the second coming of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young and very attractive bartender discovered by the otherwise dormant Democratic Socialist organization – after 38 years of total silence – who discovered a perfect formula for electing know-nothings to public office: pick an election where the opposition barely exists. It worked for AOC in a Congressional election where the sitting Congressman never came back from Washington to contest it. Now they are hoping it will work the same way for ZM.
The difference between the two jobs is critical. You can know as little as AOC knew about government – and still serve as a Congressional representative learning as you go, serving on committees selected for you and voting as you are told by leadership.
Running the city of New York when you have never run a thing – even a lemonade stand – is an entirely different proposition.
So let us do two things here: look at ZM’s proposals and look at the Borough of Brooklyn where Zohran’s “know-nothing 30 something brothers and sisters in the Lost Generation” are already in charge to see what we can expect about the future of NYC with him as Mayor.
He calls for a $30 hourly minimum wage, wants free buses, free child care,
a rent freeze in selective areas, teachers and parents running the school system, a government run supermarket in every borough.
None of these demands are communist or socialist. They are what sounds good to people who do not know they will not be achieved. They are the kinds of things that win votes – even if they are pie-in-the-sky. And they did.
In Brooklyn, those knowing as little as Zoran won election simply as Democrats. The Borough President wanted to build affordable housing that when finished would block the Sun from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and kill it. Neighborhood-hired lawyers and a District Judge stopped him. When an area was found where affordable housing seemed a natural, he wants to build a forest of trees and bushes.
In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, elected officials want an end to cars in the streets. They want a Roman piazza instead. They have closed streets and developed traffic patterns that not only limit commercial activity but are so dangerous that children have been killed crossing streets. There, a District Judge told Mayor Adams he could not safely revise the traffic patterns.
To expect a young man with absolutely no experience at running anything to run the city of New York is absurd…as absurd as his list of “things to do”. These ideas are neither socialist nor communist nor dangerous. They are just campaign gimmicks.
The Liberal Party supports the election of former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
We do so despite the fact that Mr. Cuomo did all he could to severely limit the activities of the Liberal Party and other independent political parties in New York.
Simply put, Mr. Cuomo is the only candidate running for office who knows how to govern because he has governed.
Mayor Adams is clearly involved in activities that got him indicted and he will never receive financial assistance in the campaign because of it.
Curtis Sliwa is a nice guy very familiar with city activities who is running futilely on the Republican line, is a radio talk show host and has never had any experience in government.
Let’s just remember that Zohran Mamdani is a boy hoping to do what AOC did – win an election where he seems to have little competition.
It seems Andrew Cuomo was chosen despite negative baggage he carries since he’s the only candidate with govt. experience. Why not Jim Walden?
8/25/2025
Good evening. This article hits a lot of nails on the head. I held several management and professional administrations in 21 years in NYC government, during 4 Mayoral administrations. As former Mayor John V. Lindsay aptly put it, serving as Mayor is the “2nd toughest job in America.” I am skeptical of many policies put forth by Mr. Mamdani, although I will acknowledge that he ran an excellent text-book campaign in the primary. He my view, he would be better suited to serve as Public Advocate. But a choice must be made. While I admire Mr. Walden and initially supported his candidacy, I am now firmly behind Andrew Cuomo as the best and realistic alternative to Mr. Mamdani. I support the NYLP’s endorsement of Mr. Cuomo for Mayor,
Prof. Stephen R. Rolandi, Larchmont, NY