'Anybody but Mamdani': 5 Groups Emerge to Raise Millions in Attack Funds

[Celerity]

Real estate titans and financiers are forming super PACs to try to defeat Zohran Mamdani. Some organizers say that they won’t succeed unless Mayor Eric Adams or former Gov. Andrew Cuomo drops out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/nyregion/mamdani-opposition-donors-mayor.html

https://archive.ph/qsYws



In the blood sport of New York City real estate, where comity can be hard to come by, the developers of some of the city’s most prized parcels appeared to be in agreement about one thing when they met in private this week. Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, had to be taken down. “Our goal is anybody but Mamdani,” Marty Burger, the chief executive of Infinite Global Real Estate Partners, wrote in one of two emails sent ahead of the meeting that were obtained by The New York Times.

To help, Mr. Burger proposed that his peers start by putting in $25,000 each to a new super PAC, New Yorkers for a Better Future, or to seed other groups. He cited potential ad campaigns attacking Mr. Mamdani; spending plans to boost specific rivals; and other efforts to register and turn out thousands of voters who typically sit out Election Day. A month after Mr. Mamdani’s primary victory stunned New York’s business elite, its leaders have begun cranking open a powerful gusher of outside spending to try to stop the man whose socialist policies they fear could sour the city’s business climate.

But with fewer than 100 days to go, they are still very much searching for a unified plan that could work. On Monday, the men whose companies run the Seagram Building and Hudson Yards joined the call for one anti-Mamdani super PAC, while leaders of a different super PAC invited donors to a $1,000-per-person fund-raiser scheduled for Thursday. “Fighting Mamdani is expensive,” the organizer, Betsy McCaughey, a former Republican lieutenant governor, wrote on the invitation. “But allowing him to win will cost you more.”

All told, there are already at least five groups jockeying to claim a reservoir of potentially tens of millions of dollars — each with their own leaders and goals. Several more groups are said to be in various stages of formation, including a campaign to register and mobilize anti-Mamdani voters that is likely to be run by Lisa Blau, the investor married to the chief executive of Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards. Others involve Republican allies of President Trump and a reality TV star who is friends with Mayor Eric Adams.

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[JanMichael]

1. Know your enemy

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[Tree Lady]

2. If they don't stop this

A republican will win.

[DBoon]

4. maybe that is the goal

[Polybius]

7. Mayor Curtis Sliwa?

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I can't see how he can win in any situation.

[a kennedy]

11. And OMG I sure hope he don't win.

🤬 🤬 🤬

[David__77]

9. That won't happen if Democrat support the Democratic candidate.

[brush]

3. For some reason I have a feeling Adams is suceptical to a bribe to drop out.

Wonder what gave me that idea?

[electric_blue68]

5. Oh, great. 😑 Thanks for the heads up.

[markpkessinger]

6. Disgusting . . .

By any measure, Mamdani won the primary fair and square. Even if ranked choice voting had not been in place, he still would have won by a nearly 7 point margin (based on the first round vote tally). Democratic voters in NY have made a clear choice, and it isn't Adams or Cuomo.

For the party establishment to fail to rally behind him is utter foolishness. At a time when Democrats are under water with younger voters, for the party to fail to embrace a candidate that has brought more energy and vitality to the NYC mayoral race than any candidate in living memory is just beyond stupid!

[JanMichael]

8. Agree 100%

[W_HAMILTON]

15. This article is about the wealthy donor class -- not """party establishment."""

Furthermore, as I have pointed out elsewhere, Schumer/Jeffries have shown MORE support for Mamdani at this point in the campaign than they did the last Democratic candidate for the position (Schumer didn't endorse till late October and Jeffries never endorsed at all).

Stop driving wedges.

[leftstreet]

16. +1

[Initech]

10. Fox News is going to steal this election from us, aren't they?

[a kennedy]

12. The Bastards......

🤬 🤬 🤬

[Nanjeanne]

13. As FDR said

When he described forces which he labeled "the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering." He went on to claim that these forces were united against his candidacy; that "They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred."

[uponit7771]

14. Makes him the better candidate