Subj : Re: Mamdani's NYC
To   : IB Joe
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Mon Oct 06 2025 04:31:30

 IJ>  AT> I'd do it if I knew how, but the process isn't straightforward and th
 IJ>  AT> nominees are always what I'll call "elite." The way stuff works in Ne
 IJ>  AT> York is you have to know somebody to get anywhere, or else you just w
 IJ>  AT> at Taco Bell.
 IJ>  AT> 
 IJ> 
 IJ> It was more a Rhetorical question... Could you imagine the 100s of
 IJ> millions of dollars it would take to run a campaign and you won't win...
 IJ> Never mind the money... The political capital would be the most costly.

The cost probably depends on what you're running for and how much you want to win. The owner of a local dry cleaner company ran as a Republican in a state assembly race and all she did was put her name on the ballot and was never heard from again. It's a common phenomenon around here. There's no logical reason to believe that she wasted any of her own money on that "attempt."

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