{"id":196431,"date":"2026-04-14T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196431\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:07:07","slug":"chicagos-mayor-fundraises-in-the-bronx-with-former-rep-jamaal-bowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196431\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s mayor fundraises in the Bronx with former Rep. Jamaal Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mayor headed to the Bronx for a private reelection fundraiser Monday night. No, not New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but a different leftist big-city mayor: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.<\/p>\n

Johnson is in town to speak at a National Urban League summit<\/a>, so former Rep. Jamaal Bowman co-hosted a fundraiser for him at Sankofa Haus, an event space in the South Bronx. Guests who had paid between $50 and $7,000 for a ticket enjoyed rum punch and hors d\u2019oeuvres \u2013 including miniature chicken sandwiches, vegetable spring rolls and salmon bites with spicy mayonnaise \u2013 while Bowman moderated a panel with Johnson and Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell. City & State spotted congressional candidate and former Assembly Member Michael Blake among the 30 or so people in the audience.<\/p>\n

Bowman and Johnson have a great deal in common: they\u2019re both Black former educators known for their unapologetically leftist politics who just turned 50 years old and have faced their share of negative press. Bowman told City & State he thinks Johnson \u2013 who won the Chicago mayoralty with great fanfare in 2023 but now faces a tough reelection fight \u2013 deserves a greater national profile in progressive politics.<\/p>\n

For Bowman, hosting a fundraiser for Johnson is part of his larger project to \u201cbuild up the Black left.\u201d In 2024, he launched a super PAC<\/a> to help progressive candidates engage Black communities. And last year, he was a surrogate for Mamdani, even organizing an event for the future mayor to meet with progressive Black leaders at Sankofa Haus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mayor headed to the Bronx for a private reelection fundraiser Monday night. No, not New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[23563,128,8287,3088,3066,879,9,24,63,78300,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-196431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-brandon-johnson","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-fundraising","12":"tag-heard-around-town","13":"tag-jamaal-bowman","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-political-fundraising","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}