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Starting a new thread to track the Mamdani administration

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/zohran-mamdanis-female-transition-team-features-familiar-names-rcna242140

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Here’s a look at who’s leading the plans for Mamdani, a democratic socialist, to take office:

Lina Khan, former Federal Trade Commission chair
Khan, who served as FTC chair under Biden, is known for going after corporate giants, specifically by enforcing antitrust laws, and for trying to lower prescription drug costs by targeting pharmacy benefit managers. On her watch, the FTC sued Amazon and Meta, alleging monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. She has made enemies with billionaires like Elon Musk, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and IAC and Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller.

Khan resigned almost immediately after President Donald Trump took office earlier this year.

Melanie Hartzog, former New York City deputy mayor
Hartzog, who will serve as co-chair of the transition team and the team’s director, is deeply familiar with City Hall. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed her deputy mayor for health and human services. Before that, she was the director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, where she oversaw the largest municipal budget in the country.

Elana Leopold, political strategist
Leopold, also a de Blasio alum, was a senior Mamdani campaign adviser and will serve as the transition team’s executive director.

Maria Torres-Springer, former first deputy mayor
Torres-Springer served as first deputy mayor in current Mayor Eric Adams’ administration before she resigned this year after he was indicted on federal bribery and campaign finance charges. (Adams denied wrongdoing, and a federal judge dismissed his case at the urging of the Justice Department.)

Like Hartzog, Torres-Springer has held several roles in municipal government, including deputy mayor for housing, economic development and workforce, and Department of Housing Preservation & Development commissioner.

Grace Bonilla, nonprofit president
Bonilla is president and CEO of United Way of New York City. She previously held several roles in the administrations of de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg.

Bonilla was appointed by de Blasio to serve as executive director of a new task force on racial equity and inclusion. For Bloomberg, Bonilla served as deputy commissioner overseeing the Office of Community Affairs and Immigrant Services, and as assistant deputy commissioner with the Office of Constituent Services.

 

 

Looks like a damn good transition team to me.

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I mean, the resumes seem fine to good, but 3 out of the 4 names have ties to fucking DeBlasio, with a smattering of Bloomberg in there. Not actually guys known for having popular or even populist mayoral runs. Some might cynically call that shit The Swamp. 

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2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I mean, the resumes seem fine to good, but 3 out of the 4 names have ties to fucking DeBlasio, with a smattering of Bloomberg in there. Not actually guys known for having popular or even populist mayoral runs. Some might cynically call that shit The Swamp. 

How many living people, under retirement age, have experience with these particular bureaucracies? Should he have gone the Trump route of hiring HEB bagboys to head up the nation's cybersecurity agency?

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

How many living people, under retirement age, have experience with these particular bureaucracies? Should he have gone the Trump route of hiring HEB bagboys to head up the nation's cybersecurity agency?

That's not really an answer. People spent years here, justifiably shitting on DeBlasio and Bloomberg, and now you're turning around and pimping the guys who were all over his staff as some transcendent dream team? If Gavin Newsome wins the presidency and hires Stephen Miller is all forgiven?

I'm sorry I disagree with your take these seem like great hires. I like Khan. The rest doesn't seem too fucking great. And lets not pretend there aren't a fuck ton of qualified people who could step into the NY political machine. Don't act like there's 10 people out there total and this guy just nailed the top 4. 



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