Andrew Cuomo says he ‘will move to Florida’ if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he’ll pack his bags and flee to Florida if he loses the NYC mayoral race to socialist Zohran Mamdani.
“It’s all or nothing. We either win or even I will move to Florida. God forbid!” Cuomo told business leaders and other honchos at a Hamptons breakfast hosted by supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/cuomo-i-will-move-to-florida-god-forbid-if-mamdani-become-nyc-mayor/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml191
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hey i want to be your mayor but ill just fuken leave the whole state if that other guy wins
What a dedicated and loyal representative of the people!
I love this place so much, except if I lose then I hate it
That would be a win-win for New York.
And a drop in the bucket for Florida.
That mentality is exactly what makes him so unfit for the job
Good election propaganda too. "If my opponent loses, he has so little faith in NYC that he'll leave" or somethjng
Good get the fuck out
Really? The most Republican, conservative, shit-holeiest state of them all? Fine, go be with your true people.
Don't threaten me with a good time
"I would rather a conservative hellhole like Florida than a state that gives mild concessions to the people"....I'm sure that resonates with new Yorkers.
It may explain why some New Yorkers retire to the South.
Is this a promise? Can we hold him to it? Not that Florida wants him either...
I hereby sign the executive order that the US shall have a "Good times threat act"
whereby any politician threatening it's majority voters with a good time if their candidate gets elected,
will face criminal charges if the politician in question does not follow through his or her threat.
If you are going to prosecute politicians for not following through on promises, you are going to have an awful lot of work ahead of you...
Someone should put in a law that if a politician is going to threaten to move somewhere if X happens,
and X happens, then by law s/he is exiled to that place.
I did not expect him to give Mamdani an endorsement at all, much less this soon after losing the primary.
Stop, stop. I can only be so excited.
Florida can have him
What about Adam’s or Sliwa? Cuomo thinks less of the democratic candidate than he does of republican candidate or the guy who’s gotten caught taking bribes and is now a trump suck-up to avoid being prosecuted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/andrew-cuomo-interview/
Luckily Adams doesn't seem interested.
People reading it like a contingency plan, but the "God forbid" makes me read it like Florida is the worst place in the world to Cuomo and he's using it as hyperbole for how bad NYC will become. I don't know if he meant it that way, of course, but I like the idea of using Florida as my benchmark insult.
That said, I totally agree that when Mamdami wins, Cuomo should be exiled to Florida as punishment-- he belongs there with all the other sex pests.
Oh no. Anyway...
Man, what is going on in New York City? The current mayor has been proven totally corrupt and working against the people (and some fucking crazy how he is STILL mayor?!)
And now this guy... Who the fuck is this guy?
I thought Newsom (CA governor) was bad here in California (he is), but man... I hope Mamdani wins. New York deserves better.
Not my vote to make, but I'd almost hope to see Zoran becomes mayor, just to see if he's true to his word. But too many examples of how electing someone/something for the wrong reason back fires.
So instead Let's just hope they make te right choice.
Florida is the closest thing we have to hell in the U.S. and it is where he belongs.
I dunno, we also have Ohio and Utah
What’s wrong with us in Ohio?
New Yorkers right now: Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Don't all New Yorkers come down here eventually? NJ too. The influx of conservative northerners is a big part of the mess we are in.
Sounds like it's not all of the if the more liberal people stay because they can handle the idea of taxes, tolls, higher population density, snow, winter, cultural diversity, and funding public school systems
We are in a very diverse city here, no matter what axis you spin it on, and not really conservative, it's not any kind of monoculture in Florida. Spot on about taxes, though I'm sure they aren't that much lower in reality, people move here thinking they are, then get hit with the sales tax, property tax, car insurance and property insurance.
The ones who are liberal while they're working and raising kids, then conservative when laws benefit someone other than themselves move.
The equivalent..."If I don't win then fuck all of you! I'm taking my toys and going elsewhere!!"
I'm just going to pack my weird nipples and go to Florida. Maybe, I'll kill some elderly ladies using my skills at sexual harassment.
kthxbye
Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
He's gonna move out of a state where there is a bridge named after his dad? I doubt it. Call his bluff....
Don't make promises you don't intend to keep. We learn that as children, did you not get raised by humans?
Seriously? Cats ima tidis?
Buh bye idiotic creep