As a certain pop song goes, it can be confusing to be a girl these days. Girls — especially “hot girls,” in the parlance of the internet — take a particular kind of walk (a “hot girl walk”) and eat special dinners (“girl dinner”).
They also back political candidates — usually progressive ones, including Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani — as well as somewhat arcane political concepts, like ranked-choice voting.
Into the fray of “girl” interests, a new contender has emerged: Cool Girls for Capitalism, a group that has sprung up in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign to support former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And capitalism.
On Saturday afternoon, one of the group’s creators, Danielle Goldman, stood just outside Washington Square Park in Manhattan and unloaded bright pink T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan from the back of a white pickup truck. As “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen blared from a speaker, Ms. Goldman and a handful of other canvassers called out things like “Save New York” and “Socialism has never worked.”
The message on the back of the T-shirts was more direct: “Vote Cuomo.”
Ms. Goldman, who runs Open Avenues, a nonprofit that helps select international workers find jobs in the United States, started the group in late October with Erica Wenger, a 28-year-old venture capitalist who founded the firm Park Rangers Capital.
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