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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. "There's just not a lot of experience" isn't a reason to tout hiring a bunch of Jeff Fisher's of NY politics, even if that were the case, which it isn't. 

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4 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. 

What if I told you that Mamdani was just a DeBlasio reboot with some updated SFX and a modern diverse cast? 

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Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

What if I told you that Mamdani was just a DeBlasio reboot with some updated SFX and a modern diverse cast? 

Chainsaw will never believe it. 

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What if I told you that Mamdani was just a DeBlasio reboot with some updated SFX and a modern diverse cast? 

I was going to say, why are we irate that the guy who declared DeBlasio the greatest NYC mayor of his lifetime and basically ran on DeBlasio’s platform ended up hiring DeBlasio people?

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18 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

there aren't a fuck ton of qualified people who could step into the NY political machine.

How many people can say they've worked for an NYC mayoral administration in the 21st Century?

You definitely wouldn't hire anyone from Giuliani's or Eric Adams' administration. That leaves Bloomberg and de Blasio. Mamdani made no secret about the fact he believed that de Blasio was the best mayor in his relatively short lifetime, so it's not that crazy to see de Blasio alums on the transition team. He's a mayor who has actually frozen the rent before, after all.

Bonilla is one of those people who made a career out of serving vulnerable communities and was hired by Bloomberg to do woke DEI stuff, and she's someone de Blasio kept on for more woke DEI stuff. If Mamdani wants to supercharge public service to lower-income New Yorkers, it would be hard to think of someone with a better resume.

Are there other candidates who could serve on the transition team? Possibly, but if they haven't worked for de Blasio, they aren't going to have as much experience doing this specific job in that specific place. NYC Mayor's office is a blueblood P4 program. Success and experience at a G5 or a lower-level P4 might not necessarily translate to success at the blueblood.

I think these are all good hires. Especially Lina Khan.

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2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

How many people can say they've worked for an NYC mayoral administration in the 21st Century?

You definitely wouldn't hire anyone from Giuliani's or Eric Adams' administration. That leaves Bloomberg and de Blasio. Mamdani made no secret about the fact he believed that de Blasio was the best mayor in his relatively short lifetime, so it's not that crazy to see de Blasio alums on the transition team. He's a mayor who has actually frozen the rent before, after all.

Bonilla is one of those people who made a career out of serving vulnerable communities and was hired by Bloomberg to do woke DEI stuff, and she's someone de Blasio kept on for more woke DEI stuff. If Mamdani wants to supercharge public service to lower-income New Yorkers, it would be hard to think of someone with a better resume.

Are there other candidates who could serve on the transition team? Possibly, but if they haven't worked for de Blasio, they aren't going to have as much experience doing this specific job in that specific place. NYC Mayor's office is a blueblood P4 program. Success and experience at a G5 or a lower-level P4 might not necessarily translate to success at the blueblood.

I think these are all good hires. Especially Lina Khan.

He literally hired someone who was on Eric Adam's staff. Granted, she resigned. But she was on it. 

I'm simply saying, DeBlasio, when he was mayor, was NOT popular. Regardless of how Mamdani views him. If the guy wants to be successful, and stick around, I hope he does more than follow that guy's blueprint. 

Everyone loves Lina Khan, including me.  

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6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

He literally hired someone who was on Eric Adam's staff. Granted, she resigned. But she was on it. 

I'm simply saying, DeBlasio, when he was mayor, was NOT popular. Regardless of how Mamdani views him. If the guy wants to be successful, and stick around, I hope he does more than follow that guy's blueprint. 

Everyone loves Lina Khan, including me.  

That's the one pick that stood out to me, more than the Bonilla pick. But fuck it he's got an absolute and irrevocable mandate to institute sharia law and communism in the five boroughs. I'm not worried about a lowly transition team member who accepted a job from Turkey's best friend.

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all this hubbub over this guy's preferred sky daddy. really most of the problems in the world can be boiled down to this. so sad. seems like he's a good guy with a genuine want to help NYC be a better city. too bad his guy is called allah and not jesus. 

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It's impossible to run a 100 percent effective and transformative term even in the most ideal of circumstances. 

This is the worst national climate Americans have been in since the civil war. 

Just push to get money back from the rich and use it to improve quality of life for NYC residents and try to move the ball forward towards ending this extreme oligarchal control. That's all he can really do. Some people are going to be pissed off, if it's mostly the top 5% wealthy that end up pissed then it's a win. 



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