Subj : Re: Tangled Web To : Aaron Thomas From : Ron L. Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 07:20:21 -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to IB Joe <=- AT> I don't understand what businesses have to gain by operating in NYC in AT> the first place. Property is too expensive there. But if youre family has owned the building free and clear for a couple of generations. You don't have to pay rent. I will argue that the businesses that had to pay rent already left. Then there's the work involved to start a business somewhere else, as well as move all your stuff there. AT> There's something fishy about all the media focus on Mamdani. It AT> creates a faulty narrative that "Even Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams would AT> make a better mayor than Mamdani." But to me one is just as bad as the AT> other. It doesn't matter. Only the losers are left in NYC now because they are the only ones who "benefit" under socialism. AT> Now would be the perfect time for the GOP to produce a strong AT> candidate, but of course they're not doing that. Waste of time and money to do that. Let NYC die the death it deserves and then cleanse it and rebuild it. .... I have seen the data...now bring me some I can agree with ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616) .