From members of his transition team to his administrative appointees, Zohran Mamdani has made clear that a centerpiece of his agenda as the Big Apple’s mayor will be enacting his goal of “replac[ing] the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” as he indicated in his inagural address to New York City residents at the beginning of the year.
One of the ways the Democratic Socialist Party member seeks to do this is through the appointment of a housing woketivist by the name of Cea Weaver, whom he appointed to head the “newly revitalized Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants” on Thursday:
The revitalized Office to Protect Tenants will serve as a central coordinating body to defend tenants’ rights, stand up to landlords, and ensure city agencies act swiftly on behalf of renters facing unsafe or illegal conditions.Weaver currently serves as Executive Director of Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc. She played a pivotal role in securing passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019,landmark legislation that closed loopholes allowing landlords to dramatically raise rents and deregulate rent-stabilized apartments. A
As has been the case with others whom Mamdani has entrusted to carry out his utopian vision, Ms. Weaver’s social media history (or, as she might say, “herstory”) has been combed. Let’s just say that while none of it is surprising, it nevertheless serves as yet another reminder to the near 51% of those who voted for Mamdani that it’s too late to be careful what they wished for:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.“Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.[…]“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said [in August 2019].Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.
Here are some of the videos and tweets that have been unearthed:
In response to the reports about Weaver, Mamdani is standing by her – and why wouldn’t he? He expressed similar sentiments as an up-and-coming New York state assemblyman:
New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani touted his “end goal of seizing the means of production” during a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference.[…]“What I wanted to make sure to say is that when we-, when our position starts to change, when we start to accumulate power, when we start to elect individuals such as myself and my other slate mates into local office, we are started to be treated in a different way than we used to be. And the way in which power engages us now, it is very critical for all of us to remember what it is that we are fighting for, and to remember that our agenda is an agenda that must not be dictated by calculus, but by conviction,” said Mamdani. “And what I mean by that is that the many things that we believe, some of them are already popular in this moment. Right now, if we’re talking about the cancelation of student debt, if we’re talking about Medicare for all ,you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country. But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS, right? Or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”
Needless to say, Weaver’s resurfaced remarks have again put the Mamdani administration on the Trump DOJ’s radar:
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who took action in the final weeks of his administration to make life harder for Mamdani, also weighed in, and did not hold back:
Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle.
You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that “white supremacy.”
That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.
These final thoughts from George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley on the matter are rather fitting:
Yep. Hey, 51% – we toldjah so.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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