BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ZOhran Mamdani legislation DTSTAMP:20250626T115132Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:363-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n This is the legislation Zohran Mamdani implemented in the state assembly\n\n\n\n https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Zohran-K-Mamdani/ sponsor/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Each link is to the full documentation of each law. \n\n\n\n When I look at the laws he led on the following issues\, l isted below with enumeration of instance. The MTA and roads he will not ha ve influence over as mayor of NYC. But none of his laws taxed the rich to give to the poor. He only led on two laws concerning taxes straightly:  t wo laws to repeal of property tax exemptions of private higher education i nstitutions that receive tax exempt of one hundred million dollars or more [ colombia\, nyu top the list but all the private universities own a lot of land on real estate value worth alot of money. The idea of them being e xempt is they are schools and this saved money can go for other things now the public higher education institutions  colleges or universities: city college and the other city university of ny cuny schools\, the state univ ersity or suny schools\, own a lot of property to worth alot but they are state funded\, the problem is ] \, \n\n\n\n His only law concerning israe l was blocking not for profits based in nyc from engaging in israeli /zion ist settlement activity in gaza\n\n\n\n So his tenure in albany was not fi lled with adjusting tax law to support poor folk\, it was mostly mta laws/ road laws asking for money which he will have to do every year as mayor of nyc\,but I don't see a history of what he proclaims to do. and the mayor of NYC doesn't have the powers that an assembly person does to manipulate the financial environment of the state\, which is where many financial con cerns fall under. hmmmmm\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LED ISSUES\n\n\n\n MTA 1/2/3/4 \n\n\n\n Roads 1/2/3\n\n\n\n Property Tax 1/\n\n\n\n Tuition 1/\n\n\n\n em ployee Website 1/\n\n\n\n banking 1/2\n\n\n\n wage statewide 1/\n\n\n\n la w enforcement prohibitiion 1/\n\n\n\n private university tax 1/\n\n\n\n ra te hike 1/\n\n\n\n israel 1/ \n\n\n\n utilities 1/2\n\n\n\n government vo ting 1/2\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n A00801Expedites MTA capital project constructi on by establishing a process for utility relocation necessary for such con struction\n\n\n\n A00803Establishes in the city of New York a bicycle lane safety program to enforce certain restrictions on the use of bicycle lane s and/or protected bicycle lanes by means of bicycle lane photo devices\n\ n\n\n A00898Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemption s for private institutions of higher education\n\n\n\n A00940Requires the establishment of an appeals process for students who are denied the state resident tuition rate at any public university or college\n\n\n\n A00941Re lates to registration fees for certain motor vehicles\; repealer\n\n\n\n A 00946Prohibits landlords\, lessors\, sub-lessors and grantors from demandi ng brokers' fees from a tenant\n\n\n\n A00987Directs the department of lab or to post on its internet website and annually update the names of employ ers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance\n\n\n\n A01005Requires the MTA and the New York city transit authority to implemen t certain standards pertaining to applying and removing coatings from brid ges\, trestles\, elevated subway and railway tracks and stations\n\n\n\n A 01022Relates to establishing the banking bill of rights\n\n\n\n A01032Upda tes value capture mechanisms for NYC and the MTA\n\n\n\n A01058Requires th at the average annual wage and average weekly wage of the state of New Yor k be adjusted for inflation each year\n\n\n\n A01083Prohibits the creation of fake electronic communication service accounts and prohibits the colle ction and use of account information by law enforcement and other governme ntal entities\n\n\n\n A02130Repeals the tax exempt status of private unive rsities that receive real property tax exemptions of one hundred million d ollars or more\n\n\n\n A05442Enacts the \"rate hike notice act\"\n\n\n\n A 06044Enacts the Make Transit Affordable Act\; provides fare-free bus pilot program in New York City\n\n\n\n A06101Establishes the \"Not on our dime! : Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act\" to prohibit no t-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity\n\n\n\n A06541Prohibits payment card networks from as sessing penalties against small businesses or financial intermediaries who fail to comply with the credit card surcharge notice requirement\n\n\n\n A06542Enacts the utility shutoff protection act\n\n\n\n A06951Relates to p eriods suspending the operation of certain rate\, charge or other changes by utilities\, and provisions permitting utilities to retroactively recove r revenues they would have earned during such periods\n\n\n\n A08126Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms\ n\n\n\n A08808Extends provisions relating to public hearings on proposed r ules\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n FORUM POST\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc /topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 06 /26/2025\n\n\n\n Mamdani said he wants universal healthcare/free bus servi ce/and a rent freeze\n\n\n\n He will got to albany and ask to tax the rich and the governor or the state legislature will give the yes or no. \n\n\ n\n Something tells me like Obama\, Like Ocasio Cortez\, Mamdani will win and it will be a dud. The Donkeys can get elected but once elected the poo r plans fall apart into a cronyism. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n MY COMMENT\n\n\n\ n  \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-abo ut-mamdani/#findComment-74774\n\n\n\n Posted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD\n\n\ n\n did you read my calendrial post? where i fully cite his legislative hi story? \n\n\n\n   18 hours ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n I don't believe POTUS OJ pulled any strings to get Cuomo out. Mamdani had a better message . \n\n\n\n Mamdani didn't win because of his message\, if you look at tur nout \, it is still low and if you look at voting blocks he has serious cu toffs. Mamdani defeated cuomo because cuomo has baggage. It is that simple . In the same way Mamdani has advantages against Eric Adams cause he has b aggage. It is the Obama+AOC mold. \n\n\n\n Person talks alot of stuff. Ge ts elected\, and then the rules and regulations of the bureaucracy force t hem to act against their stated high goals getting electing. Everything Ob ama said he wanted to do didn't happen. AOC's green new deal died. Mamdani if he wins will have to do like all mayors and go to albany and beg the g overnor for taxing powers. the governor will say no because if the governo r does for nyc then the governor will have to do for all the cities in new york state and once done for all once \, it will be demanded every year. so mamdani will not get the ability to tax the rich of nyc. And he knows t his which is why he has already adjusted to healthcare /freeze rent/univer sal childcare. Hochul will be willing to help the healthcare/universal chi ldcare which is part of her platform and most other cities in nyc like. Th e rent freeze is actually under the mayor's complete control and but debla iso rent freezed as well but had many problems with the real estate indust ry or nypd\, which mamdani will also have.  . As my calendrial post showe d\, if you want to have tax law you need to be where mamdani is leaving an d be in the ny assembly\, where he helped lead tax law. Mamdani can not al so protect immigrants\, immigration is a federal level act\, the mayor can do little to protect immigrants and nor can ny state and defying the fede ral government is unwise. \n\n\n\n @Pioneer1\n\n\n\n   18 hours ago\,  Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n\n Although I'm not a New Yorker\, I trust Adams bein g in that seat more than I trust this Mamdani dude I know next to nothing about.\n\n\n\n try reading my calendrial post\, it is fully cited to all h is laws\n\n\n\n Mamdani's problem for me is during his tenure he did very little tax law\, and focused on laws that demanded nys or nyc become more in debt by financing things. Then he runs as a candidate in the primary on a promise to protect immigrants from the federal government if elected wh ich the mayor can not do\, tax the rich and give money out to the poor whi ch is powers of new york state which the mayor can not do. \n\n\n\n At th e end of the day\, his campaign is all about identity. he is muslim/ he is born outside the usa/he is \"young\"  and a set of voters see those thin gs and think they come with good strategies or plans and they usually don' t. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-kn ow-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74780\n\n\n\n @ProfD\n\n\n\n   26 min utes ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n As mayor\, Mamdani would be putting press ure on the Democratic governor.  The party would not be in favor of it.\n \n\n\n well not much pressure\, remember if you are mayor of albany/birlin gton/yonkers/buffalo you don't want to tax the rich \, if anything you wan t to lessen the taxes to invite the rich in with their enterprises\, so ho chul will have many mayors against mamdani's call so it will be easy for h er to say no as new york state rarely makes city specific laws. \n\n\n\n   26 minutes ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n The Democratic party definitel y needs more people with personality\, energy and an agenda resuscitate it .\n\n\n\n well i liked adrienne adams but the problem outside of her being a woman is that she isn't selling anything. adirenne adams says\, she wil l do little things and hat doesn't get the commonly called far left exitec \, they want to hear things that legally don't work. but adrienne adams is n't also trying to court the old bureaucracy\, so she isn't going to say \ , she is in love with nypd. candidates like her exist but neither side of the party of andrew jacksn like her.... \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n  https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani /#findComment-74786\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @ProfD\n\n\n\n The problem NYC has is it has outgrown the status of a city. NYC isn't equivalent to Buffalo b ut they each have the same status. Now NYC could try to become a state [it is legal] BUT the remainder of NY state will never vote to allow NYC to b e free from it. At least I don't see that happeneing easily.  The federal dollars NY state gets because of NY city are too precious to give up and the remainder of New York State likes the influence it has on NYC which i may add is usually against NYC's betterment to be blunt. Black people talk about the projects but the original plan from the federal government was to put the projects in upstate new york and never in nyc. But the 99% whit e towns and villages upstate new york complained to high heaven. They did not want the non white/non christian/fiscally poor populace of NYC living next to them. It is that simple and so \, no upstate new york\, but the mo ney was coming to new york and so... put them all in NYC. and the rest of the states rural/small town white populaces followed. People today talk ab out green but part of why the projects were meant to be outside nyc was fo r health\, but again the white people of upstate new york in their 99% tow ns and villages said no. And this is similarly true for Los Angeles or Chi cago or other. And to make it worse when the urban congestion led to infra structure breakdowns in cities\, the same towns that wouldn't accept proje cts next to them were overjoyed to accept jails for people in the city to go to\, which help the tax base of upstate new york city. The black church was happy to support jails away from the black urban populaces but as oft en the black church didn't realize it was hruting the black populace in bi g cities. I don't know how much money the black populace of NYC and other non white populaces have spent on the white towns to see their loved ones in the jails upstate. ....  NYC can try to have a special status made for itself in NY State law but again\, the remainder of NY state would be aga inst that. So NYC has an elemental problem. It has outgrown the status of city cause it really isn't. NYC is a state that has the status of a city. I argue easily\, if NYC was a state all the mayors from Lindsey to Adams w ould had done differently\, but absent the freedom of a state \, and bound to the laws of a city...their are limits. The mayor of NYC is very limite d even though it seems such a powerful post. The governor of NYState reall y is more powerful than the mayor of any city in  New york State. The pro blem with people like AOC or Mamdani is for all of their supposed radicaln ess\, their plans really aren't good. AOC's green new deal was again\, gre at philosophical reading for the people cheering mamdani on now\, but func tionally\, no way. One thing people forget is it isn't uncommon for people to be elected in the usa and then have a negative wake up call to the mec hanics. Remember the tea party\, that sect in the party of abraham lincoln POAL. People remember them but don't remember their most important lesson which many so called socialist or far left liberals learn once elected. T hat the plans you have you didn't fully think through. Great to get electe d. people cheer. Talk about the change is coming and then you get in and r ealize the mechanics of government require more than your one sentence des ires. This isn't easy\, and that is why so many legislatures seem deadlock ed. The tea party realized many other POAL members wouldn't vote to reduce the government size. Sometimes things are needed. The usa has a populace over three hundred millions. that is a lot of mouths. welfare programs can 't be just cut away and while media makes black people the great benefacto rs the truth is white people are. Yeah\, lower the military size but again the usa is in the global policing business which matters when you want to control the price of oil. yeah tax the rich but as newsom tried in califo rnia already\, when you do that the rich left to texas. You can't stop the m from leaving the state. and when they leave what do you tell the workers in the state who relied on this firm? And when the rich are gone are you going to tax the poor? And when the rich are gone\, and the city is going deeper into a debt hole what then? Who do you blame? what do you do? where do you go? Bootstraps\, to what job? and then when people commit illegal acts\, law enforcement? it is a spiral downward.  I really think when it comes to government too many people focus on what they want and not how t o get what they want. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\,\n\n\n\n I don't know if you follow NYC but the battle over the casinos is huge. The realit y is\, everyone in government wants those casinos but the non black commun ities that the potential casino owners want to locate to dont' want them. The years of dumping everything in black regions of the city has left the black regions with no space. The only spaces left is with non black region s who know a casino near where they live will change everything for them f inancially for the worse. rents will skyrocket\, and the regions energy wi ll change. casinos are rife with alot of negativity for all the money they make. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if -you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74879\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n \n\n\n Here is the problem with the usa today\, in terms of government\, t he people voting against you offer more help by their existence than your legislative quality. \n\n\n\n As my original post stated [ https://aalbc .com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ ]  \n\n\n\n Mamdan i' legislative record speaks more to his reality than his speeches. But fo r most in the usa\, speeches have more value and personal identity have mo re value.\n\n\n\n Biden became president because of Schrumpt\, so many vot ed against or not for schrumpt. Ocasico Cortez won because the white guy i n that bronx district was totally disconnected from latino voters who usua lly don't vote. and have dropped in voting after AOC's entry. MAmdani won because Cuomo has many who dislike him and so do Adams\, which gives Mamda n an advantage. \n\n\n\n And this goes both ways. Hillary Clinton was per fect for Schrumpft. And Mamdani is a godsend for every republican who is o n an anti immigrant/ anti north east / pro isolationism stance. MAmdani is the embodiment of that which ttheir voting blocks fears. Nothing Mamdani can prove otherwise cause he will only be at best mayor of NYC \, a positi on of limited power. again\, if he was truly serious about doing good he w ould stay in the assembly but he sees a chance to be the first muslim/asia n/socialist mayor of NYC and that can be very fruitful for him personally. Remember\, england had their first asian prime minister and like MAmdani he talked a talk and then in the bureaucracy faltered. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ n @Pioneer1 adams isn't guaranteed to keep the spot. yes the real estate industry\, yes law enforcement\, yes the private fiscal institutions will be able to support adams as an independent\, which is underrated by some. By being an independent adams allows a combination of elephants + donkeys. But Mamdani has a strong crowd in the donkeys. The problem mamdani has is \, he will need to explain how he is going to do a number of his promises and he hasn't. \n\n\n\n It is a race. I don't know why people don't think it isn't a race. The debates will be huge. The one thing in mandani's cam p is what I call a little obama effect. Asians may vote in droves for mamd ani and that may pull him through if he can split all the other votes. \n \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-mor e-about-mamdani/#findComment-74946\n\n\n\n @Pioneer1\n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n\n How are you going to be the of a city that contains Wall Street and the Diamond District and Park Avenue...but openly say that you don't think billionaires should be allowed?\n\n\n\n Because it is possible. You seem to think Mamdani doesn't fit New York city or NY State or the USA but the USA has a long history of socialism in parts. And more importantly\, MAmdani has an engaged voting group. No not the whole city. I didn't say Mamdani will win\, but MAmdani can win. We will see how the numbers play out. \n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n \n Because he can't.\n\n\n\n well I argue\,  he can explain a plan that can provide more money into new york city\, it can't be taxing the rich ca use he doesn't control that\, the governor or state legislature of new yor k state does  and the legislature will never agree to his tax desires nor will the governor be able to because so many cities in new york state wil l be against\, but the mayor does have powers and i think if he focuses on what mayors can do and proposes a radical agenda\, he can convince and wi n it. But he has to be daring in that way and based on his legislation in the new york state assembly he isn't as daring or radical as some suggest. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @ProfD\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   8 hours ago\, ProfD sa id:\n\n\n\n Maybe Mamdani believes he can tap into whatever got former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio elected.\n\n\n\n That was three terms of bloomberg.B loomberg let the NYPD be unpunished for their inefficiency\, and he was a huge advocate for the real estate industry of the city. Those two things g ave bloomberg huge voting supports. NY city has a high end real estate mar ket but people forget how many mid to low end realtors are in the city ful l of black folk/women/asians/muslims and bloomberg aided all of them in th eir agenda against rentors. The NYPD loved that he simply didn't demand be tter of the NYPD whenever they operated poorly. And they voted for bloombe rg as a block. The fact that bloomberg also employed many in the private m edia industry in the city helped. \n\n\n\n BUT\, the rentors of the city hated bloomberg\, the people the NYPD abused and got away with abusing hat ed bloomberg. The public media sector \, independent\, also had issue with bloomberg. So with his third term up\, a huge energy for someone who woul d freeze the rents/tell the NYPD to clean up their act/support the public sector bureaucracies of the city existed and de blasio\, former agent for mayor dinkins was the most aligned candidate to that set. But\, de blasio automatically became enemy to the nypd who hate any mayor calls the nypd w rong. the real estate industry \, high + low end\, hated the rent freeze. and the private sector didn't like the lack of energy for private sector a ctivity so...adams came in. Pro NYPD to the core. supports the real estate industry\, and in that\, supports what I call the black financial aristoc rats of the city who are more in the number than ever before. He did his c ity of yes thing which is a huge rezoning plan that is massive. that gave the real estate industry the ability to slot buildings in every space in t he city\, will allow for more mixed used buildings to save the skyscrapers from being money pits. But\, really isn't addressing the lack of jobs or industry in the city. Which is where mamdani has strength. Mamdani 's base are the just turned adults who are in a city devoid of jobs\, devoid of o pportunity\, and with ever increasing cost of living. The reality is\, eve n if Mamdani losses\, his movement will win in four years with the way the city is being managed. It isn't the fault of anyone past 1980 but many of the big cities in the usa are mismanaged but they have been mismanaged si nce the 1950s. \n\n\n\n NYC used to have every single industry\, used to be a hub for all things\, then came the mid 1900s and the white suburban m ovement and the business flight. Those two things were mismanaged by nyc a nd the other big cities in the usa. So much so that by the 1970s the usa e conomy couldn't survive being based on gold and had to use its own debt as a currency based on its militaristic power to finance itself\, and it wor ked but it is not 2025.  I restate\, MAmdani's campaign isn't about the i ssues that propelled de blasio. Mamdani's campaign is about a legacy of po or fiscal capitalistic management that has come to bite not only nyc but t he greater usa\, it is just that nyc is ahead of the curve. the usa wouldn 't allow black workers into unions or wouldn't allow unions and allowed fi rms to flee the country than deal with unions\, then allowed regions of th e country\, suburbs\, to live like leeches on cities \, who were allowed t o be the dumping ground for all the non white folk as well as all the form er towns folk as the countries industrial labor base was moved over seas f or cheap labor. And now the robot worker era is coming and people already don't have a job but the global financial system means that markets are ba sed on global standings so the rent in the cities can keep rising even if the populace in citiies is more and more unemployed. \n\n\n\n Even Hochul \, the governor\,  tried to make a paycheck go out to all new yorkers  a nd yet so many disliked the idea on all sides. why? the labor outlook isn' t good. The only reason can be the fear some have that the usa will have t o now give monthly paychecks to keep the system of fiscal capitalism afloa t. But did and does not the usa hinder the native american community from owning businesses on reservations? did and does not the usa hinder black t owns/ or regions in cities from owning a business? did and does not the us a hinder many women from equal wages when they are doing the same job? \n \n\n\n The USA through its military scenario before commonly called world war 2 or strength after said war\, has always been able to maintain an int ernally inequal fiscal capitalistic system\, but now in 2025 with the most powerful military\, its internal system needs adjustment and the flexibil ity to change as needed doesn't have a simple legal pathway through. The c onstitution wasn't built with modern usa in mind. It was built assuming on ly white men would be able to have a full life in the usa and all others h ad part lives as the behest of white men. It was built assuming the usa wo uld never be in the business of supporting economies of foreign countries as a side strategy to keep intersoveriegn agreements/arrangements. It was built assuming the usa would never have an immigration policy that allows an open door for the world's fiscal poor. \n\n\n\n so\, Mamdani can win\, but most of what he says he wants to do\,he has no way. He has to adjust his goals\, cause if he doesn't adjust his goals and he wins\, he will joi n AOC + Obama and I find both of them make voters less interested.When you look at obama's exit\, the people who voted eight years ago were not enth used.  I argue the bronx has become worse voting wise since AOC. so... \ n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250626 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR