Zohran Mamdani insists he appeals to a broad cross-section of New Yorkers — yet his inner circle of cookie-cutter radicals is strikingly white and privileged.
His highly paid key advisers and aides turn out to have more in common with each other than with average New Yorkers.
City residents’ median income is $58,000; 64.5% are non-white. Mamdani’s crew, like him, grew up in tony communities and attended posh private schools.
It’s easy to push radical, left-wing agendas when mommy and daddy are bankrolling your lifestyle.
- Elle Bisgaard-Church, 34, a California transplant with an Ivy League degree from Columbia University, is Mamdani’s chief adviser and former campaign manager.
- Morris Katz, 26, a Tribeca native who grew up in his parents $5 million Manhattan apartment, is the campaign’s top ad-maker
- Julian Gerson, 29, attended the ritzy Dalton School and grew up in a multimillion dollar house in Woodstock.
- Dora Pekec, 25, is a Duke University grad.
- Donald Borenstein, 34, the campaign’s highly compensated social-media videographer, grew up in a wealthy DC suburb and graduated from Fordham University.
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Of course, even aides who don’t seem to come from privilege are hard-left, such as Cea Weaver, his chief housing adviser, who says “homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.”
With under two months to go ’til Election Day, Mamdani’s own charm may keep voters from noticing how narrow, and narrow-minded, his team actually is.
But if he wins, he’s going to find it very hard to govern the city with a crew that has little real idea how the other half lives.