{"id":19342,"date":"2025-10-28T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19342\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:20:08","slug":"brooklyn-republican-sends-mailer-tying-democrat-simcha-felder-to-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19342\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Republican sends mailer tying Democrat Simcha Felder to Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Republican running for City Council in heavily conservative and Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods has sent out mailers tying Democratic incumbent Simcha Felder to socialist mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the Democratic Party. Felder Mamdani Team. They will work together. That\u2019s what Democrats do,\u201d Republican Harold \u201cHeshy\u201d Tischler\u2019s campaign says in the mailer sent to voters in the 44th District that includes Borough Park, Flatbush and Midwood in southern Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that means the Mamdani Felder Democratic Party team will be WORKING AGAINST US,\u201d the mailer said. \u201cFelder Mamdani means LESS COPS, HIGHER TAXES. Stand up against the Mamdani Felder Democratic team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigns in Manhattan, New York City. REUTERS<\/p>\n

New York State Senator Simcha Felder. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

The campaign lit shows a picture of Mamdani next Felder and then a beaming Tischler underneath an image of the American flag.<\/p>\n

Felder, who has served in the council and state Senate since 2002, is a conservative Democrat with little in common with democratic socialist Mamdani.<\/p>\n

He even caucused with Republicans in the state Senate for several years and provided the deciding vote to keep them in the majority.<\/p>\n

A staunch supporter of Israel, Felder has not endorsed the Israel-bashing Mamdani.<\/a><\/p>\n

But he\u2019s not the only Democrat feeling the heat from Republicans over the lefty Queens assemblyman clinching the party\u2019s mayoral nomination.<\/p>\n

The campaign lit shows a picture of Mamdani next Felder and then a beaming Tischler underneath an image of the American flag. AP<\/p>\n

A staunch supporter of Israel, Felder has not endorsed the Israel-bashing Mamdani. William C. Lopez\/NYPOST<\/p>\n

The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, the NYS Republican State Party and suburban GOP candidates<\/a> have been using Mamdani as the bogeyman <\/a>in races across the state and country to scare voters by tying their opponents to the left-wing candidate.<\/p>\n

The Staten Island Republican Party has even mentioned Mamdani to score points in judicial races.<\/p>\n

Felder laughed off being associated with Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to have a much nicer trimmed beard than [Mamdani] when I was his age,\u201d Felder quipped.<\/p>\n

He also noted that he\u2019s running on the Conservative and Law Order ballot lines and had run on the Republican line in past races.<\/p>\n

Political mailer for Heshy Tischler for City Council.<\/p>\n

One of his former campaign strategists said voters in the district won\u2019t be fooled by the smear.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimcha Felder is well known in the community and his support is tremendous. Everything he says and does is taken at face value,\u201d said O\u2019Brien \u201cOB\u201d Murray, who ran Felder\u2019s first campaign for state Senate in 2012.<\/p>\n

Tischler, a conservative radio host, is a controversial figure.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to charges in 2021<\/a> that he egged on a mob to attack a reporter during an anti-lockdown protest amid the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.<\/p>\n

Tischler was sentenced to 10 days of community service after copping to a misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican running for City Council in heavily conservative and Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods has sent out mailers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7544,98,100,99,68,57,9,24,63,563,7714,87,13267,58,82],"class_list":["post-19342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-borough-park","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-exclusive","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-orthodox-judaism","tag-politics","tag-simcha-felder","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}