{"id":31451,"date":"2025-11-07T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31451\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:26:11","slug":"tax-the-rich-chant-breaks-out-as-gov-hochul-takes-the-stage-at-zohran-mamdani-ny-ag-letitia-james-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31451\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tax the rich\u2019 chant breaks out as Gov. Hochul takes the stage at Zohran Mamdani, NY AG Letitia James event"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014\u00a0It\u2019s the Zoh show.<\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani jetted down to Puerto Rico for the annual SOMOS political retreat, where he basked in his victory<\/a> by co-hosting a cocktail reception Thursday with embattled ally Attorney General Letitia James.<\/p>\n

Chants of \u201ctax the rich\u201d broke out as Gov. Kathy Hochul took the stage at the DC 37 union event that had to be moved outside the El Caribe Hilton to accommodate the more than 200 attendees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more you push me, the more I\u2019m not going to do what you want,\u201d quipped Hochul, who showed at the Mamdani reception after giving remarks at a separate event celebrating Empire State tourism.<\/p>\n

\"NewMayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will host a cocktail reception at the SOMOS conference with his ally Letitia James. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The dual Hochul and Mamdani events underscored the dynamics at the tropical conference, an annual event where New York state Democrats booze, schmooze and cut deals.<\/p>\n

Mamdani entered the retreat as the triumphant, history-making mayor-elect intent on reshaping New York City and the Democratic Party in his democratic socialist image.<\/p>\n

But his dreamy vision of a progressive Big Apple likely still needs the support of Hochul, a Mamdani backer who has nonetheless stubbornly rejected supporting his calls to raise taxes on the wealthy.<\/p>\n

She was also confronted with chants of \u201cTax the rich\u201d when she spoke at a pro-Mamdani rally in Queens that featured lefty stars Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders shortly before Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

While in San Juan, the soon-to-be-mayor will be rubbing shoulders with Albany Democrats, who have shown growing signs they\u2019re warming to hiking taxes<\/a> on the rich to pay for Mamdani\u2019s $10 billion agenda.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s supporters have also signaled they\u2019ll back primary challenges against Dems who don\u2019t support his socialist agenda.<\/p>\n

\"NewThe event overlaps with an event hosted by Gov. Kathy Hochul. James Keivom<\/p>\n

City Council Democrats could also help or hinder Mamdani\u2019s agenda, depending on if a progressive or a moderate Dem becomes speaker. <\/p>\n

Behind-the-scenes at SOMOS, moderate Julie Menin (D-Manhattan) and Mamdani ally Crystal Hudson (D-Brooklyn) are duking it out for the speaker spot.<\/p>\n

The confab has seen newly minted mayor-elects attend with the political wind at their back one year, only to have them abruptly change the next: just ask Eric Adams.<\/p>\n

Adams flew off to SOMOS<\/a> in 2021 fresh off his mayoral win to hobnob with Hochul, James and other power players.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Adams famously shunned the conference<\/a> as his troubled administration faced never-ending scandals and hints of a federal probe that ultimately led to his federal indictment.<\/p>\n

Mamdani plans to stay at the four-day retreat until Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014\u00a0It\u2019s the Zoh show. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani jetted down to Puerto Rico for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,398,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,63,19090,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-31451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-letitia-james","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-puerto-rico","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31451","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=31451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}