The funniest outcome with the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City was the outrage by progressives and leftists who overwhelmingly voted for him.
They revealed their hypocrisy this week when ten residents joined the Village Organization for the Integrity of Community Engagement (VOICE) in their suit against the City after Mamdani announced plans earlier this year to turn a building at 8 East 3rd Street into a citywide intake shelter to house homeless adult men.
"No one is more ‘not in my backyard’ than white progressives. This community voted for Mamdani in a landslide but don’t want to live with the consequences" Michael Henry, a former New York attorney general candidate, wrote on social media outlets. He was joined by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rick Scott (R-FL) with posts of their own.
Election District 45, the area that includes the East Village, voted for Mamdani in a 70.1% victory over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who garnered just 26.0% of the vote.
Mamdani announced the temporary housing project at 8 East 3rd Street as a way to accommodate the closure of Bellevue Shelter, a separate homeless intake site that the mayor’s office said had deteriorated too far for use.
"The Department of Social Services (DSS) and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will immediately implement an operational plan to vacate 30th Street and relocate the critical functions to other sites. There are approximately 250 individuals in the shelter and the DSS is working to relocate these individuals by mid-March," Mamdani’s office said in an early March press release.
To implement this temporary action, Mamdani relied on an emergency declaration from 2022, a power originally issued to handle an influx of asylum-seekers.
The mayor’s office also detailed that a second accommodation site would be opened at 333 Bowery Street, beginning on May 1, to house families without minor children.
Once again, the people who foisted this Socialist (read Communist) on the City, are now the loudest to protest his actions. But this, folks, is what they voted for, and now they may be looking for a “do-over” because it is impacting THEM.
Oh yes. Elections DO have consequences, and it is painful when it is not what they expected. And ‘Not In My Backyard’ makes them look so hypocritical.
Enjoy your consequences, you leftist hypocrites; you just got what you wanted for everyone else.
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