Mamdani Win Will Ravage Entire State
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, November 05 2025
New Yorkers, brace yourselves for crazy laws and huge tax hikes.
Zohran Mamdani's win Tuesday should send tremors far beyond New York City. A Mamdani victory will ignite wholesale legislative attacks on property owners, charter schools, law enforcement and businesses all across New York state. From Buffalo to Amagansett, nothing will be spared.
In New York, the big decisions about criminal law, education, rent laws and taxation are legislated at the state level, not locally. Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America will be calling the shots in Albany as well as at City Hall. New Yorkers, brace yourselves for crazy laws and huge tax hikes.
Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly from Queens until he is sworn in as mayor, gathered endorsements from the state's top legislative leaders and sizable blocks in the Assembly and Senate, including 27 Assembly members and 16 state senators, even before his victory.
His conquest Tuesday elevates him to national stature but also sets him up as the de facto head of the Democratic Party in New York state, far more influential than Gov. Kathy Hochul. Her approval rating is in the basement, and she's fawning desperately over Mamdani to curry favor with the Left.
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