Mamdani’s booming ‘agit-prop’ bureau shows he’s – Latest News
Making New York City work won’t ever be Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s precedence; his strategy to governing is all about his image and selling his radical allies.
Witness the plans for a metasticizing Office of Mass Engagement, set to grow to $5.2 million in salaries as its headcount balloons 186%, with 26 new hires drawing an average of $125,000.
This isn’t the mayor’s (additionally ample) press workplace, nor agency-directed group engagement: It’s political organizing; its first process is recruiting people to show up at Rent Guidelines Board hearings to supply a show of mass assist for Mamdani’s rent freeze.
Another half, of course, is the assist for far-lefty challengers to progressive Democrats like Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman.
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(Since Speaker Carl Heastie ran level for Mamdani’s priorities during finances negotiations, the mayor’s not backing major challenges in opposition to Heastie’s Assembly incumbents this yr, although the Democratic Socialists are actually trying to choose up power within the Legislature.)
The mayor’s additionally salting metropolis authorities with radicals, from a new NYPD-bashing sheriff to refusing to renominate even de Blasio-appointed judges his staff deems insufficiently activist.
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Mamdani’s solely actual nod to conserving metropolis authorities working is his retention of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, although it stays a query how long that may final when he retains ordering harmful forbearance of lethal threats.
Beware: Even if the NYPD stays strong, the remaining of metropolis authorities is headed off the rails as long as City Hall is targeted solely on profitable more energy for the mayor’s motion.
