With City Hall unlawfully pushing a “yes” on five charter-revision questions this year, we see no choice but to recommend a “no” on them all.
One of them should be uncontroversial: Question 5 simply requires a bit more honesty about rainy-day funds.
The others are much more dubious, reducing the power of local communities to contest mayoral moves on everything from street design and bike lanes as well as reducing oversight of city contracting.
But the substance matters little when Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his minions are illegally “weaponizing” a $1.6 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to push ballot questions that will vastly increase his grip on Gotham.
It’s a blatant violation of municipal law, which strictly bars officials from using public cash to push ballot measures.
Not to mention how the TikTok-style videos running on city LinkNYC kiosks are as much ads for Mamdani as for the five proposals — an even uglier abuse of taxpayer cash.
A good general rule of thumb on all ballot questions is to go thumbs’-down unless you see a clear, convincing case for the proposal.
But when pols are putting taxpayer dollars on one side of the question, every sane citizen has a duty to vote the other way.
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