Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned Wednesday that New York Metropolis mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s shock major win had turned her into the “therapist in chief” — as she sought to quell furor over the socialist’s radical “tax the rich” plan.
The governor, who’s but to endorse Mamdani after his mayoral win set off a political earthquake inside the Democratic occasion, signalled she deliberate to dam his push to hikes taxes for Huge Apple millionaires and enormous firms, if he’s elected.
“I’ve spoken to hundreds of business leaders saying, ‘Listen, nothing is going to happen to this city without me being aware of it and involved in it’. So don’t talk about packing up and leaving and all these other overreactions,” Hochul informed MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.
“I’ve become the therapist in chief it seems. So I’m saying to everybody, ‘We’re going be okay.’ Maybe it’s the mom in me. I know how to calm down situations and we’ll get through this.”
“Don’t panic everybody. Let the process play out, let the voters decide and then we’ll deal with it,” she added.
Mamdani has stoked widespread outcry along with his promise to boost taxes for the town’s ultra-wealthy, in addition to his slew of anti-Israel feedback on the marketing campaign path — together with his refusal to sentence the “globalize the intifada” rallying cry.
Hochul mentioned she raised the 2 points immediately with Mamdani once they spoke lately.
Along with reassuring the enterprise neighborhood, the governor mentioned Mamdani’s primary job was “healing” his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers.
“I said ‘You have a lot of healing to do with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it’,” she mentioned.
“So job number one is to straighten that relationship out if you can and to get them to understand that if you become the mayor, we don’t know the outcome, but if you become a mayor that you’ll be a mayor for everyone and no one should have to about being in a city and feeling less safe because of who the mayor is and their religious beliefs.”
