Mamdani Uses Taxpayer Money to Build a City-Funded Activist Army

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Mamdani Uses Taxpayer Money to Build a City-Funded Activist Army

New York City may be broker than a barista with a college degree but that isn’t stopping socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani from funding his activist army.

On Wednesday, the mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement rolled out a program called “Organize NYC” that’s billed as a “long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

The first thing these paid activists will do is to get people to participate in the Rent Guidelines Board hearing in June.

Volunteers will canvass across the city to encourage tenants and landlords to testify ahead of the board’s June vote, which will determine whether rents increase or remain the same for more than 2 million New Yorkers.

This vote mainly has to do with a potential further rent freeze in the city.

The mayor’s office said in a statement that these publicly paid community organizers “will not advocate for any specific outcome,” but you can bet that critics of the program aren’t buying it.

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New York, let's get organized.In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made.We can do better. If we want a city that works for tenants and landlords alike, we need New........

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