Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo picked up a key endorsement in the NYC mayoral race Saturday from a union representing thousands of bus operators and other transit workers citywide– that wants no part of a “free bus” plan being pitched by socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Leaders of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726 and the ATU New York State Legislative Conference Board formally endorsed Cuomo during a Staten Island rally, saying they support his mass transit vision that includes expanding the city’s “Fair Fares” program that funds half-price transit fares for poor New Yorkers.

They said they also oppose socialist Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky plan to provide New Yorkers free bus service, in large part because a similar $50 million experiment in Kansas City failed miserably.

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