Y’all, NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani doesn’t just have a transition team; he also has 17 transition committees staffed with 400+ people. It’s no wonder he’s begging for millions of dollars in transition funding.
Legal Insurrection previously reported how several members of his key transition team were staunch “defund the police” advocates. This week, however, Mamdani announced the formation of those 17 transition committees, including two that undoubtedly were created to cater to his socialist base:
The Mamdani team will have the expected committees on transportation and public safety, for example, but he will also have two committees that have not been part of other mayoral transitions, including one on worker justice and another on community organizing.[…]Mamdani said his government would show “the importance of turning what people say no to into that which they say how to.”
Already, questions are being raised about some of the people appointed to these committees. Among them is disgraced former Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory, whose antisemitism – which included support for the Nation of Islam – got her booted from the Women’s March movement in 2019:
The Women’s March cut ties with Mallory in 2019 after founder Teresa Shook wrote in a Facebook post that Mallory and three other leaders had “allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment, and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs.” Shook called on the co-chairs to leave the organization, stating that their extremism had “steered the Movement away from its true course.”
Also on the Committee on Community Safety are other anti-police voices:
A lefty academic who literally penned a book titled “The End of Policing” sits on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team focused on public safety – along with a rag-tag roster of other anti-police reformers.Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College sociology professor, was among 26 advocates, scholars and former NYPD officials tapped Monday to staff Mamdani’s Committee on Community Safety amid the mayoral turnover.[…]Diehard “defund the police” advocate Joo-Hyun Kang is the director for Communities United for Police Reform.She has slammed police unions as an obstacle to reform.
Mamdani also has a Legal Affairs Committee, which includes Ramzi Kassem, an attorney who has represented al Qaeda terrorists and, earlier this year, pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil:
The mayor elect appointed Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer best known for representing al Qaeda terrorists, as a legal adviser. Kassem’s former clients include Shaker Aamer—a “close associate” of Osama bin Laden—and Ahmed al-Darbi, an al Qaeda member convicted in 2017 for bombing a French oil tanker, among other Guantanamo Bay detainees.
There was also this guy:
At least one admitted Assata Shakur comrade also made the team:
[Lumumba] Bandele has a three-decade personal relationship with Assata Shakur, the convicted murderer and FBI-designated fugitive who escaped U.S. custody and fled to Cuba — and who died earlier this year in Havana.In this clip, Bandele recounts multiple trips to Cuba to meet her, including bringing artists like Common, hip-hop duo Dead Prez, and Talib Kweli to “sit at her feet.” He says Shakur gave him ongoing “assignments” and put a “battery in my back” to work to “bring comrades home.”
This guy wrote an entire thread on the Community Organizing Committee alone. This was his first entry:
(click here to learn more about “Mr. FAFO”)
Not that Mamdani didn’t tell Big Apple residents who he was prior to getting elected, but good grief.
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