Jessica Tisch could win next mayors race: ex-Gov. David Paterson

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch could win the next mayor’s race given her service record and “dynamic’’ speaking ability, according to former head of the state Democratic Party and ex-Gov.David Paterson.Paterson raved about Tisch after hearing her speak at a Police Athletic League event last week — while rapping her boss, current Mayor Zohran Mamdani, over his divisive anti-Israel rhetoric.“I am so glad I got to introduce her because she was fabulous,” Paterson said Sunday of Tisch while appearing on 77 WABC radio’s the “Cats Roundtable” program.“The statistics that rolled off the top of her head.

Her sensitivity to different communities.Her desire to make New York safe – to get people to walk their dogs at night again, which they had stopped doing,” the former gov said.“It’s amazing how much she’s done.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she became the next mayor of the city.… She has that kind of dynamic way of talking to an audience.

I was … spellbound by her performance.”Radio-show host John Catsimatidis, a Mamdani critic and chairman of the Police Athletic League’s board of trustees, said Tisch would be a top contender in 2029, should she run.Paterson added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right to call out Mamdani at the United Nations last week.“[Netanyahu] really laid it on the line to a number of people, including Mayor Mamdani, who he called the Antisemitic Mayor,” Paterson said.“Well, [Mamdani] earned that by trying to imply that he has the right to arrest Netanyahu because … the court in Brussels that nobody listens to … condemned him with war crimes,” Paterson said, referring to the mayor’s threats to cuff the PM when he came to the Big Apple amid the Hague’s International Criminal Court issuing a warrant for him.A red-faced Mamdani was later forced to admit he had no power to arrest Netanyahu.In July, Paterson also co-wrote a letter with Dov Hikind, former Brooklyn assemblyman and f...