Bernie endorses Zohran. The Times endorses Rahm. We early voted.

Saturday millions of us took to the streets in a historic protest against the authoritarian regime.

To put an exclamation point on the weekend Anne and I walked up the block to John Jay High School in Brooklyn to early vote for Zohran Mamdani as mayor of the city of New York.

Since I had done some phone banking for Zohran, we were invited to his giant rally with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday night. We couldn’t make it since we had friends and family over for a birthday party (mine!) and then there was the Brooklyn Pride Parade down the street.

From all reports, the place was on fire.

This morning the campaign announced the endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders.

Bernie is arguably the most respected and popular political figure in America.

There sill remains a question of how well Mamdani will do among New York’s Black and Latino voters.

As far as the Cuomo campaign is concerned, recent ads that have flooded television have shifted from focusing on Cuomo’s so-called experience to out-right Red baiting and racial fears.

They remind me of the ads we saw when the Chicago Democratic Machine tried to defeat Harold Washington with ads that cried out, “Deafeat Washington before it’s too late.”

Cuomo’s ads scream, “RADICAL”, “RISKY!” along with pictures of Momdani in a traditional Indian Kurta.

Then there was the New York Times which this weekend ran an editorial endorsing nobody who was actually in the race, but spent a huge amount of column inches bashing Zohran.

They described the race as “vexing”, as in causing annoyance, frustration, or worry.

What would cause the Times to be less vexed?

Apparently someone like Chicago’s disgraced former mayor Rahm Emanuel, whom they applaud as a pragmatist.

The Times says that they liked Rahm as a school reformer, not mentioning that he shuttered 50 public schools in Black and Brown communities, the largest public school closure in American history.

The Times makes no mention of Rahm’s cover-up of the police murder of Laquan McDonald, which forced the mayor out of office.

I guess that wasn’t vexing enough.

*This post was written by a human with no help from AI. All spelling errors and errors of syntax are mine and mine alone.