{"id":95915,"date":"2026-01-10T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:17:09","slug":"new-nyc-council-gop-leader-ready-to-battle-mamdanis-socialist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95915\/","title":{"rendered":"New NYC Council GOP leader ready to battle Mamdani’s socialist agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new head of the City Council\u2019s Republican delegation says he\u2019s committed to leading the fight against Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and preventing the Big Apple from becoming the Red Apple.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to be a voice for Republican, conservative and moderate, middle-of-the road New Yorkers, people who believe in common sense policies, and I think that job has never been . . . more necessary since the election of Mayor Mamdani,\u201d Staten Island Republican David Carr told The Post this week after being elected Council minority leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to accept policies [like city-run grocery stores] based upon a failed ideological creed, which is socialism. We are committed to doing everything we can to stop that, and we will find allies here in the Council, and beyond, in order to prevent some of these policies from coming into effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ManNewly elected NYC Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island). Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Carr, who became the conservative borough\u2019s first openly gay Republican elected official <\/a>when he joined the Council four years ago, heads a five-person GOP bloc vastly outnumbered by 46 Dems in the Council. Two moderate Democrats, Darlene Mealy of Manhattan and Phil Wong of Queens, often vote in line with the Republicans, forming a seven-member \u201cCommon Sense Caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr said he\u2019s hopeful newly elected Council Speaker Julie Menin, <\/a>a moderate Manhattan Democrat, will give the caucus more of a voice than it\u2019s had in past years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s deeply interested in the quality-of-life issues that we\u2019re all going to raise,\u201d said Carr, 38. <\/p>\n

The new minority leader said the delegation\u2019s objectives this session will include pushing legislation aimed at making home ownership more affordable \u2013 especially for first-time buyers \u2014 and lobbying the state to reform the dysfunctional tax-assessment system that unfairly burdens homeowners\u00a0in the outer boroughs.<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019s among the growing number of borough pols who support taking a fresh look at Staten Island secession. He supports new legislation by Staten Island Republican Frank Morano that would allow vehicles to turn right after stopping at red lights<\/a> \u2013 like the rest of the state except NYC.<\/p>\n

\"MayorCarr says he\u2019s committed to leading the fight to block NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and prevent the Big Apple from becoming the Red Apple. Micheal Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n

Carr briefly held the title of minority leader last year after ex-Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) resigned from the post to accept a job as a lobbyist, but Carr was ousted within weeks after losing a power struggle with Queens Republican Joann Ariola.<\/a><\/p>\n

Carr was able to reclaim the post after Bronx Republican Kristy Marmorato \u2013 an Ariola ally \u2014 lost her seat in November, which gave Carr the majority of support from GOP members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new head of the City Council\u2019s Republican delegation says he\u2019s committed to leading the fight against Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[301,5605,57,9,56,63,65,64,87,2134,1211,134,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-95915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-david-carr","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-republicans","18":"tag-socialism","19":"tag-staten-island","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915","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=95915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}