Josh Kraft should go to Uganda.
There he was able to meet the New York City in Zohran Mamdani in Kampala, the capital, and find out how he can primarily win a mayors.
Not a primary in Kampala, the capital, where Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago – a kind of Eric Adams from Uganda – is surrounded in 2026, but by applying what Mamdani did in the Big Apple on what Kraft hopes to do in Boston.
Lukwago was once dropped off for incompetence and office abuse, but he retained his office after a High Court had thrown the charge away.
Mayor Adams of New York was sued by a federal large jury on accusation of political corruption, but the charges were later withdrawn by the US Department of Justice.
Apart from that, Mamdani Kraft can learn a lot, especially how to unlock a deep -rooted sitting – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Kraft only talks about cycle paths and the white stadium will not cut it.
Mamdani, after winning the New York Democratic Primary for mayor, returned to his home country last week to celebrate his wedding.
Mamdani is a holder of joint Uganda/American citizenship and possesses land in Uganda. He returns to New York at the end of the month.
Kraft could of course have requested a meeting in New York. But a trip to Uganda in East Africa would be electric, daring and politically daring. And no one with their right mind nowadays goes to New York.
By the way, if Mamdani can campaign for mayor of New York from Kampala, Uganda, why is Kraft, campaign for mayor of Boston, not from the same place? Moreover, Kampala is safer than New York or Boston.
It would also show that Kraft was willing to go to the ends of the earth to hit Wu.
If it is treated well, Kraft could also manage a wedge between Mamdani and Wu, a colleague -free stuff socialist, who has found inspiration in the primary victory of Mamdani, although Mamdani, a Muslim, has refused his support to return to the globalization of the Intifada, who asks for the murder of all Jews.
Kraft happens to be Jewish.
Nevertheless, Wu, who commented on Mamdani’s primary victory,: “It is inspiring to see that someone who led a campaign on a joyful, positive vision of doing things to win people to win millions of dollars of negative attacks and a much dark vision of what cities are and what they stand for.”
Wu apparently did not think that the support of Mamdani to Hamas and the anti-Israeli rioters in Columbia, where his father teaches.
But Wu is surprised by Mamdani’s call for free buses, free childcare, rental control, supermarkets run by the city, discouraging the police, fighting ice, taxing white neighborhoods at higher rates, rental control, the abolition of billionaires, and, in addition to other impossible promises, the arresting of the Israëlaëahu.
It is no wonder that Andrew Cuomo, who now runs for mayor as an independent, joke promised to move to Florida, just like everyone else, is chosen as Mamdani as mayor.
Cuomo, 67, refers to Mamdani, 33, as the ‘child’. Yet it was Mamdani who ate the lunch of Cuomo in the primary campaign.
Still, if WU is inspired and finds joy in what Mamdani is promising, then we must all be on our way to Florida.
Yet she is on her way to demolish Kraft.
From the last poll, Wu Kraft shows in the provisional of 9 September with 30 points, or 59.8% to 29.6% for Kraft.
Kraft would need an orphan greeting to do better in the November elections.
Wu not only has the power of the Incumbency, but she is a political professional who stood up on the political ladder to become a mayor by the city council. Kraft is new in the game and that can be seen.
The Uganda scenario is of course just a dream, just like Kraft’s campaign for mayor.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonerald.com
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