The leftist New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani might not be the business community’s first choice to run the Big Apple, but a growing contingent in Gotham’s fat cat class say they can can change his evil ways – or at the very least work with him to soften his Marxist rough edges, On The Money has learned.
To be sure, this isn’t a majority opinion among the city’s business elite. Most are scared to death that a radical with Marxist views on the economy, past calls to defund the police, someone who won’t denounce the term “globalize the Intifada,” could be our next mayor. But that could be that case after Mamdani won the Democratic primary in this heavily Democratic city, besting former governor, and party moderate Andrew Cuomo by a comfortable margin.
As On The Money has reported, the business community’s allegiance to Cuomo is now fraying;