Source: In These Times
by Thomas Birmingham
“It was early afternoon in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Amala Dufour was having her first canvassing conversation of the day. Clad in a bright, lime green baseball cap with ’FREEZE THE RENT’ lettering, Dufour handed a petition to a young Black woman, who, bracing the clipboard against her door frame to sign, had just recounted Dufour’s pitch to perfection. Both Dufour — and now the woman she just recruited to the cause — are among a group of more than 20,000 New York City tenants pledging to vote for Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, June 24, in large part because he is the only mayoral candidate unequivocally backing the call for a four-year freeze on increases in rent-stabilized apartments.” [editor’s note: If their only “choice” is between scumbag grandma-killer Cuomo and avowed commie Mamdani, not much hope for the Apple – SAT] (06/21/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-renters-tenants