{"id":87998,"date":"2026-01-03T06:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:49:03","slug":"mamdanis-radical-hires-will-deliver-for-the-left-while-nycs-other-99-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87998\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s radical hires will deliver for the left while NYC’s other 99% suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since he dropped the news around the year-end holidays and his inauguration, you may have missed how Zohran Mamdani saved many of his most radical appointments for last.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the new mayor named Ali Najmi to chair his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, which picks judges for family and civil courts and interim appointees for criminal courts; Najmi is big on making the bench more \u201cdiverse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani outright ordered the committee to find more diversity picks and to get public defenders and other anti-prosecution types more involved in judicial selections: Expect the city\u2019s courts to become even more eager to put criminals back on the streets. <\/p>\n

The day before, he picked Cea Weaver to run his Office to Protect Tenants: She\u2019s a proud radical who has called for<\/a> the city to force private landlords out of business so it can seize their buildings; that\u2019s partly why she praises his rent-freeze plans as likely to \u201cdeepen the crises\u201d in the housing marketplace.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s\u00a0spent years advocating unabashed Marxism<\/a>: \u201cElect more Communists,\u201d ran a tweet<\/a>\u00a0from December 2017; \u201cSeize private property,\u201d another in\u00a0June 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just before the New Year, Mamdani chose Kamar Samuels as schools chancellor. <\/p>\n

On top of wanting to end<\/a> Gifted & Talented programs, Samuels is so obsessed with racial re-engineering of the school system that he\u2019s won praise from far-left \u201c1619 Project\u201d chief Nikole Hannah-Jones.<\/p>\n

And before that came the mayor\u2019s elevation of two radical lawyers to the city\u2019s top legal jobs.<\/p>\n

Tapping Steven Banks as corporation counsel is putting the fox in charge of the henhouse: The longtime Legal Aid attorney spent decades suing the city to expand homeless services into a multibillion-dollar industry; as homeless czar in the de Blasio years, he doubled homelessness spending (without, of course, reducing homelessness). <\/p>\n

Banks has said that government ought to use eminent domain \u2014 seizing private property \u2014 to provide free housing for everyone.<\/p>\n

Ramzi Kassem\u00a0will serve as City Hall\u2019s chief counsel; he recently defended<\/a> Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and before that an al Qaeda terrorist who pleaded guilty to planning a major terrorist attack on a French ship.<\/p>\n

As a student at Columbia in 1998, Kassem wrote an article blaming \u201cEuropean Jews\u201d for all the problems in the Middle East; he was a top Biden adviser on immigration, when the main policy was to let everyone in, no questions asked.<\/p>\n

Then, late on Friday, the new mayor named political organizer Tascha Van Auken to run a new Office of Mass Engagement, which seems designed to use taxpayer funds to ensure that radical activists have maximum pull with every city agency.<\/p>\n

Yes, Mamdani has hired some de Blasio and even Adams retreads, but he plainly really means his inaugural vow to govern as a Democratic Socialist.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s going to deliver for the far left at the expense of the other 99% of New Yorkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since he dropped the news around the year-end holidays and his inauguration, you may have missed how Zohran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,42273,304,2000,41579,9,24,63,299,7701,42256,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-87998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-cea-weaver","12":"tag-editorial","13":"tag-homelessness","14":"tag-kamar-samuels","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-radicalism","20":"tag-steven-banks","21":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87998","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=87998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}