It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We'll talk to the two directors of the New York

Working Families Party to begin the show today. Why? Well, there's a lot going on this week that is very

relevant to them and very relevant to many of you. In the New York State Governor's race,

did you hear this? They declined to endorse the Progressive Challenger, who was primarying

Governor Hockel. That was her lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado. Within a day after the

Working Families Party decided to stay out of that race, Delgado dropped out.

The progressive candidate, the Working Families Party backed in the New Jersey congressional primary this week, has apparently won that race on Alia Mejia, who was the most progressive candidate in that multi-candidate field

looking to succeed Mikey Cheryl there.

It is what they call Tin Cup Day in Albany.

You know about Tin Cup Day?

That's when the mayor of New York and others go in person to ask the state legislature

to approve their agenda.

In Mayor Mamdani's case and backed by the Working Families Party,

the mayor wants to increase taxes on the wealthiest New York individuals and corporations,

as you know, to pay for universal child care and other affordability priorities.

Now, on Monday's show, on that question, we heard an argument against

those tax hikes from Steve Fullop, president of the partnership for New York City. Yes,

that's Steve Fullop, who used to be the Jersey City mayor, Democrat. Now he's president of the

partnership for New York City, which represents 300 major businesses in the

city. Here's one of the ways Fullett made his case against Mamdani's call and his base's call to tax

the rich. The talking point that he had, Brian, was that we need to move New York tax rates

on the corporate side to replicate New Jersey.

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