{"id":210118,"date":"2025-09-08T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210118\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:55:36","slug":"mamdanis-inner-circle-is-young-privileged-and-not-zoh-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210118\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani&#8217;s inner circle is young, privileged &#8230; and not Zoh diverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani insists he appeals to a broad cross-section of New Yorkers \u2014 yet his inner circle of cookie-cutter radicals is strikingly white and privileged.<\/p>\n<p>His highly paid key advisers and aides <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/02\/us-news\/zohran-mamdanis-brain-trust-is-full-of-young-privileged-lefty-radicals-with-little-government-experience-who-could-one-day-lead-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turn out to<\/a> have more in common with each other than with average New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>City residents\u2019 median income is $58,000; 64.5% are non-white. Mamdani\u2019s crew, like him, grew up in tony communities and attended posh private schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to push radical, left-wing agendas when mommy and daddy are bankrolling your lifestyle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elle Bisgaard-Church, 34, a California transplant with an Ivy League degree from Columbia University, is Mamdani\u2019s chief adviser and former campaign manager.<\/li>\n<li>Morris Katz, 26, a Tribeca native who grew up in his parents $5 million Manhattan apartment, is the campaign\u2019s top ad-maker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Julian Gerson, 29, attended the ritzy Dalton School and grew up in a multimillion dollar house in Woodstock.<\/li>\n<li>Dora Pekec, 25, is a Duke University grad.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Borenstein, 34, the campaign\u2019s highly compensated social-media videographer, grew up in a wealthy DC suburb and graduated from Fordham University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even aides who don\u2019t seem to come from privilege are hard-left, such as Cea Weaver, his  chief housing adviser, who says  \u201chomeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With under two months to go \u2019til Election Day, Mamdani\u2019s own charm may keep voters from noticing how narrow, and narrow-minded, his team actually is. <\/p>\n<p>But if he wins, he\u2019s going to find it very hard to govern the city with a crew that has little real idea how the other half lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani insists he appeals to a broad cross-section of New Yorkers \u2014 yet his inner circle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13239,40896,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,10452,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-210118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-socialism","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115168550951893179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}