JESSICA DIECKMAN, MORE ALARMING MAMDANI INFO

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THE FOLLOWING LETTER APPEARS IN THE MOST RECENT GAZETTE:

To the Editor, As November in NYC approaches, more alarming facts suggesting Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani is unfit for the job of NYC mayor continue to surface.

NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association president Scott Munro has suggested that the number of police retirements is likely to skyrocket should Mamdani win the upcoming election. NYC Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry corroborates these sentiments, pointing out that NYPD staffing has been on the decline, and an unsupportive mayor would make things much worse. He has explained that, “We can’t afford to have a mayor who ignores the problem or tries to take us backward.” The true attitude behind statements from Mamdani to ‘defund’ and ‘dismantle’ the ‘wicked and corrupt’ NYPD are hurriedly spun as references to cutting excess overtime or dealing with natural employment attrition. With meaningless, campaign-friendly boastings that a Mamdani mayorship would offer the city, ‘prevention-first, community-based solutions,’ it is highly unlikely that Mamdani will get a Police Union endorsement. This is bad news: if an overcrowded island of 8.5 million people does not take care of its police officers, it will not take care of crime.

Mamdani has plans to throw a wrench in the works for the funding and growth of the successful charter schools that serve a high number of minority students. These charter schools perform far better than the public schools located in the same regions of the city. Ever the entrancing wordsmith, Mamdani hides his intentions to attack and dismantle existing charter school space-usage behind vague suggestions that he will ‘address the unevenness of our system.’

Targeting these successful schools and their funding will only promote failure and hardship for students currently doing well, and will be disastrous for an upcoming generation of young learners: Mamdani also plans on preventing new charter schools from opening anywhere in the city, no matter how poorly the public schools are performing. If Mamdani truly cared about black and Hispanic students, he wouldn’t be making such horrible plans. The schools that best support NYC students’ success are the ones students should have the option of attending.

In the big picture, his policies have the ability to take the city to rock bottom. What happens to the city will effect surroundings areas. Once both the individuals and the businesses with money depart to other metropolises in the US, socialist Mamdani won’t have other peoples’ finances to tap to fuel his programs, and it’s highly unlikely that the federal government will bail him out of the mess he will create.

NYC voters beware and be aware.

Thank you,
Jessica Dieckman