🚨New York ranks dead last in the Tax Foundation's 2026 Tax Competitiveness Index. If the status quo remains, our ability to compete with other states, whether over affordability or employment opportunities, will continue to diminish. 🔗Statement here: upstateunited.com/news/upstate-u…

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As governor, Andrew Cuomo (D) directed around $1 billion of tax money to build a state-owned factory for Musk's company, Tesla. The project resulted in a bid-rigging scandal. Tesla is currently behind on its job-creation targets so New York is renegotiating the lease. (Again.)

The 2025 #NYCMayor general election has seen $24.7m in ad spending, 280% more than the 2021 general election. Advertising opposing Zohran Mamdani has surged in the closing weeks of the election, with 44% of aired spending in the last two weeks attacking the Democratic nominee.

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans. Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next. cnn.com/2025/11/03/pol…

.Sen. Mike Gianaris says Mamdani will need help from Albany — and he’ll get it. “I’m here tonight to tell you, he has got partners in the state government who are gonna work to enact this agenda in January.”

The big reveal: Zohran Kwame Mamdani says he voted YES on the housing-related ballot questions 2-5 gothamist.com/news/zohran-ma…

Mamdani votes against the even-year election proposal for NYC. In 2023, he voted in favor of moving most county and town-level election (outside NYC) to even years.

Democratic nominee Zohran Kwame Mamdani⁩ voted for himself on the NY Working Families Party⁩ ballot line this morning, his campaign spox tells me. The third party backed him over Cuomo in the primary

Mamdani on Trump's various threats to New York City if he wins: "I will treat his threats as they deserve to be treated, which are the words of a president and not necessarily the law of the land," saying he will use courts and bully pulpit to push back.

The signature proposal Zohran Kwame Mamdani wants voters to have in their minds when they go to vote: his pledge to deliver universal childcare, he tells The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast

Fascinating interview w/ Mamdani from 2021, soon after he was first elected, but this part stuck out: "If you have any vision for New York living up to its promise, it is a vision that will require defeating Andrew Cuomo." jacobin.com/2021/02/zohran…

Hashmi is the first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office *ever* in US history

📢We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969! 🗳️🗳️ Polls are open until 9pm. If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote

Andrew Cuomo's political career bookended by New York City mayoral election losses. In the case of his father, it was the precursor to a storied electoral career. For the son, it's a coda to a scandal-induced resignation.

Zohran Mamdani was elected the 111th mayor of New York in a historic victory that will put an avowed democratic socialist in charge of the city that serves as the capital of global finance. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Throwback to five-and-a-half years ago, when I covered then political newbie Zohran Mamdani's first campaign for Assembly as a DSA insurgent. "Meteoric" has been used to describe many politicians' rises, but it really is true for Mamdani cityandstateny.com/politics/2020/…

Democrat Michael Cashman narrowly beat Republican Brent Davison to win the 115th Assembly District seat, according to unofficial tallies. He'll begin serving the remaining year of former Assemblyman Billy Jones' term after the results are certified. northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/525…

Fresh off of a historic election victory, Mamdani names his transition team dlvr.it/TP5Kyk

Will DSA have a role in the transition? “I am looking forward to having every member of my coalition being a part of our transition. The transition will be guided by the work that we need to do,” Mamdani vaguely responds.