DSA takes aim at Hochul over taxing the rich after red sweep, report says: ‘We’re coming for her’

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 DSA takes aim at Hochul over taxing the rich after red sweep, report says: ‘We’re coming for her’
By Craig McCarthy,
Carl Campanile and
Matt Troutman
Published June 25, 2026
Updated June 25, 2026, 5:30 p.m. ET

Kath is going to face the reds’ wrath.

Mayor Mamdani’s socialist cronies vowed to target Gov. Kathy Hochul to push her on their “tax the rich” crusade — as the comrades boasted they “control” the Big Apple.

Democratic Socialists of America leader Gustavo Gordillo warned Hohcul that the emboldened far-left group will target her next after their candidates upset establishment Democrats in several key races in Tuesday’s party primaries.

“She knows we’re coming for her,” Gordillo told the New York Times.

The warning came after Mamdani-endorsed DSA congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, along with avowed progressive Brad Lander, swept their Democratic primary races Tuesday.

The red sweep across those three diverse Big Apple congressional districts covering parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx prompted a jubilant Osman Chaudhary, co-chair of the New York City DSA Electoral Working Group, to claim a socialist mandate.

Chaudhary rattled off a lengthy list of Big Apple neighborhoods, including the “People’s Republic of Ridgewood” and the “People’s Republic of Astoria” — both located along the city’s so-called “Commie Corridor” — under the DSA’s sway.

“We have a democratic socialist mandate in New York City,” he said on a DSA call Wednesday night.

“Don’t even try it. We control these areas, we won by massive margins,” he also told those considering challenging the DSA politicians, according to a clip shared on social media by Stu Smith, an investigative analyst at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

No point taxing poor people.

Rich people will move to lower tax jurisdictions or setup umbrella legal entities to shelter their wealth.

Poor people can't afford good attorneys, accountants, finanical advisers, and tax advisers.

[Fishrrman]

“She knows we’re coming for her,” Gordillo told the New York Times.

It could become an interesting test of power.

I believe that New York state is the only state in which the governor (by state law) has an almost-plenary power to remove the mayor of New York City from office.

This law was actually put into motion in the 1930's, when then-NY governor Franklin Roosevelt took steps to remove New York City mayor Jimmy Walker. Walker fled the country before the proceedings got too far.

So... NY governor Hochul has the legal means with which to strike back at New York City if she wants.

But... I doubt she'd ever make that move. I sense that she is terrified of zombie-mammi and has no idea what to do about him. She's little more than a Party apparatchik and can't think for herself, strategically or otherwise...

[Free Vulcan]

They don't have a mandate, their victories were achieved with very low turnout. They gamed it by turning out their bougie white 'intellectuals' class. Gaming the system is not a mandate.

Projecting that to a governor's race will be a tall order that I don't think they can pull off in lower density population areas statewide with large numbers of non-militant, non-rabid, non communist Rats.

In fact I think their over-aggressive power grab will backfire to a completely different political reaction than they expected, not just in New York but across the nation.

[Smokin Joe]

They don't have a mandate, their victories were achieved with very low turnout. They gamed it by turning out their bougie white 'intellectuals' class. Gaming the system is not a mandate.

Projecting that to a governor's race will be a tall order that I don't think they can pull off in lower density population areas statewide with large numbers of non-militant, non-rabid, non communist Rats.

In fact I think their over-aggressive power grab will backfire to a completely different political reaction than they expected, not just in New York but across the nation.

From your keyboard to God's eyes!