{"id":644441,"date":"2026-07-31T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644441"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:25:00","slug":"immigrant-business-owners-prepare-lawsuit-against-mamdani-over-city-run-grocery-stores-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644441","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Several immigrant business owners\u00a0are preparing to sue<\/a>\u00a0New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plan for city-owned grocery stores, Fox News Digital confirmed Wednesday.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Multicultural Business Coalition\u2019s board voted this week to pursue legal action against the city over Mamdani\u2019s proposal to open five taxpayer-funded grocery stores that would sell food at prices up to 30% below traditional retailers<\/strong>,\u00a0according to the New York Post<\/a>, which first reported the vote Tuesday.<\/p>\n

MBC Chairman Frank Garcia said the coalition plans to send a letter to Mamdani\u2019s office in the coming days outlining its legal plans to protect bodegas, competing grocers and other small businesses. If the mayor does not respond or agree to meet within three weeks, the group intends to proceed with the lawsuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garcia said he has sought a meeting with the administration for months without success, despite public assurances from a city commissioner that officials would engage with all stakeholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commissioner said this administration is open to speak to everybody, and they want to hear from everybody,\u201d Garcia told Fox News Digital. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ve been waiting for a meeting for a couple of months. Why aren\u2019t they having me? We are ready to file the lawsuit if the mayor doesn\u2019t meet with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Garcia described the effort as nonpartisan, saying it is aimed at defending small business owners who are already struggling with rising costs in New York City.<\/p>\n

He said lawyers will be ready to file once the three-week window closes, citing support from a coalition of civil rights and community organizations across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re nonpartisan. So we\u2019re going to meet everybody, Republican or Democrat,\u201d Garcia said, adding that a Democratic Jewish organization and other civil rights groups have offered support and funding for the legal fight.<\/p>\n

The coalition was formed earlier this year specifically to oppose Mamdani\u2019s grocery store initiative and includes members from African, Asian, Caribbean, Hispanic, Jewish and Middle Eastern business communities. It has drawn backing from city and state lawmakers, including New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The looming lawsuit follows Mamdani\u2019s release of additional details on the city-backed grocery plan, which has drawn renewed criticism from opponents who have branded it a \u201ccommunist fantasy\u201d and a threat to independent grocers already operating on thin margins.<\/strong> The mayor has separately faced pushback over his endorsed rent freeze, which a group of city landlords is also seeking to overturn in court.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has defended the grocery store plan as a way to lower food costs for residents, pointing to it as a signature piece of his affordability agenda. Critics, including small business advocates and economists, have questioned whether a government-run retail operation can undercut private grocers without straining city finances or distorting the local market bodegas and immigrant-owned stores depend on to survive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/31\/2026 – 12:25<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores Via American Greatness, Several immigrant business owners\u00a0are preparing to sue\u00a0New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plan for city-owned grocery stores, Fox News Digital confirmed Wednesday. The Multicultural Business Coalition\u2019s board voted this week to pursue legal action against the city over Mamdani\u2019s… Continue reading Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}