A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t shake his New York state of mind.
That’s one interpretation of his remarks at the 2025 Florida Sheriffs Association Summer Conference in Orlando, in which the Governor invoked the dread specter of the Big Apple and mayoral campaign front-runner Zohran Mamdani as a framing for his tried-and-true law and order message from beginning to end.
“I think you’re going to end up at this conference next year, potentially, be talking about, hey, they elected some anti law enforcement mayor in New York City, and now all these NYPD cops want to come work in our agencies and get the $5,000 bonus, and I think that that’s, unfortunately, something … that may happen if they do this (in New York),” DeSantis said early in his remarks.
DeSantis would invoke “transfers from other states” again soon enough.
“Like I said, I do think you’re going to see strong interest in New York City if this election goes the way that some people are predicting. I mean, I don’t know about you, but would you want to put on a uniform and go out and serve if the mayor doesn’t even think your agency should exist or get any funding at all, doesn’t think police should go in dangerous areas, that they should send social workers into there? That ain’t my cup of tea, and I don’t think anybody who wears the uniform thinks those policies will succeed.”
DeSantis has called Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in New York, a “communist” who could begin the “collapse of New York City.” He has complained that the candidate wants to replace police with social workers. He’s said repeatedly that he expects the price of real estate to go up because of the exodus of arrivals from the Empire State.
Yet his commitment thus far seems mostly rhetorical. He has not, for example, lent his political apparatus to Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee in the NYC mayoral race.
10 comments
Larry Gillis, Director-at-Large, Libertarian Party of Florida
July 29, 2025 at 9:56 am
“IF MAMDANI DID NOT EXIST, IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO INVENT HIM”.
Bless the good people of the City of New York for electing this clown. (The Republican nominee doesn’t have a chance and Andrew is a joke).
Every time we need to remind the rest of us what will happen if we don’t pay attention, Mamdani is there to close the deal for us.
Big Apple, you go!!
Ron Ogden
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 am
“. . the dread specter of the Big Apple and mayoral campaign front-runner Zohran Mamdani. . .”
Mockery is a tool for people who have no responsibility and you use it frequently, but leaders like DeSantis rightfully fear and properly warn us against raving socialists like Mamdani. Consider the conflict between Mandani’s political image and his personal life: you would think he would choose to celebrate his recent marriage in the city he says he wants to lead, New York; but where does his go, he goes to his parents palatial estate in Uganda,
Bill Pollard
July 29, 2025 at 12:01 pm
Mamdani is not a Communist, Ron. And Larry, this time I don’t agree with you. He is not a clown. Mamdani has some ideas that we should examine. They just might work.
Larry Gillis, Director-at-Large, Libertarian Party of Florida
July 29, 2025 at 1:38 pm
Democratic Socialist, yes. I will always give ideas “the full Monty”, even ones I suspect are wrong/wrong/wrong.
Engels
July 29, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Which ideas should we examine, comrade? Defund the police? Close all jails and prisons? Government-run grocery stores with long bread lines like Moscow or Havana?
Larry Gillis, Director-at-Large, Libertarian Party of Florida
July 30, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Which particular “comrade” are you questioning this time, Tovarisch?
(Your absence from the last Cell meeting was noted).
Seminole Steve
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 am
If AOC endorses the commie then you should run away from this guy.
tom palmer
July 30, 2025 at 7:18 am
DeSantis should spend more time focusing on the deficiencies of his own regime rather than ranting about what is happening hundreds of miles away. Mamdami is a useful distraction from his own incompetence.
My Take
July 30, 2025 at 6:58 pm
The pseudo-Nazis warn of the pseudo-Communist.
Where did the Americans go?
Lee Hemings
July 31, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Democratic Socialists of America changed its charter at its most recent national convention to adopt Marxist-Leninism and commemorate revisionist histories and legacies of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mao, and Castro. Stalin was left out. They now call for the end of the free market and the ownership of private property. There is a great article on this in The Atlantic (a left-of-center publication). AOC and the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor are proud members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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