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no_hypocrisy

(53,850 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 04:39 PM Tuesday

NYC TACO: John Catsimatidis does 180 re. Zohran Mamdani.

John Catsimatidis is a former failed candidate for Mayor of NYC.

John Catsimatidis owns Red Apple Media which includes RW radio station, WABC.

John Catsimatidis owns several upscale grocery stores in NYC (Gristedes and D'Agostinos).

John Catsimatidis swore that if Zohran Mamdani got elected Mayor of NYC, that he'd sell all his supermarkets and move to Florida.

John Catsimatidis thought himself a king-maker and used his radio station and hosts to ensure that Mamdani would not win. He went as far as to turn against a popular host, Curtis Sliwa. (Sliwa was so ubiquitous on the station, it was a known joke that ABC stood for "Always Broadcasting Curtis". Sliwa was the republican candidate for Mayor. "Cats" and his minions (hosts Rosenberg and Carter) dedicated air time to call for Sliwa to drop out of the race like current Mayor Eric Adams. But Sliwa hung in there and got 7% of the votes.

So, now call "Cats" CACO, for Catsimatidis always chickens out.

Zohran Mamdani’s biggest hater John Catsimatidis now calling for top NYC conservatives to work with incoming socialist mayor

Influential billionaire GOP donor John Catsimatidis — a fierce critic of socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — now says he wants New York conservatives to work with the incoming administration to ensure the Big Apple’s success.

The grocery store magnate hosted a round-table style panel at his WABC radio studio on Monday with right-leaning bigwigs like former NYPD Chief of Department John Chell and one-time Republican mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo.

“The one thing that we all hold in common is that we all love New York… and we want New York to thrive like it always has,” the Gristedes supermarket owner said during the unusual press conference.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-biggest-hater-john-catsimatidis-now-calling-for-top-nyc-conservatives-to-work-with-incoming-socialist-mayor/

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NYC TACO: John Catsimatidis does 180 re. Zohran Mamdani. (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Tuesday OP
Capitalism does quite well provisioning socialism bucolic_frolic Tuesday #1
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Dont take my supermarkets Starbeach Tuesday #3

bucolic_frolic

(53,385 posts)
1. Capitalism does quite well provisioning socialism
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:07 PM
Tuesday

or even communism.

Perhaps this is more accommodation with reality than change of heart, but still, it sounds nice.

Response to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

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