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Mamdani is nothing but hostile to NYC business community — but leaders still won’t stand up to him

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Mayor Mamdani to the business community: “Drop Dead.”

And the business community is falling to the floor and rolling over.

In his latest absurd and counterproductive attack against the city business community, Mamdani has banished executives from a fund-raising advisory board to finance various charities.

Yep, that’s as dumb as it sounds. These people had good ties to the business community, and helped raise money for first responders, schoolchildren and other causes.

But we can’t have those evil capitalists in the Mamdani government, so they’ll likely be replaced by union representatives.

And if the new board raises less money from Wall Street for charity? Mamdani doesn’t care; he’d rather tax them anyway.

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What I find most fascinating about this is that Mamdani believes he can get away with it — and he’s right.

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