Is the Big Apple really longing for the de Blasio days?
According to a New York Post report, NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team is packed with Democratic Socialists of America members, and staffers for former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio are getting coveted committee roles.
From The New York Post:
The 400 comrades tapped by Mamdani to help his transition into City Hall include the local DSA’s co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser, who recently bragged that the mayoral election’s outcome counted as a “mandate” for their shared socialist agenda.
“We’re looking to actually build a very different City Hall,” Mamdani, a DSA member, said during a press conference in East Harlem announcing his 17 transition team committees.
Gordillo will serve on the economic development and workforce development committee, while Mausser was named to the committee on small businesses and Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise.
The committees largely follow the template of past mayoral turnovers, covering traditional issues such as health and economic development — with the exception of two new ones focused on the lefty causes of “community organizing” and “worker justice.”
More than 70,000 New Yorkers applied from every single ZIP code in the city to work in Mamdani’s administration when he takes office Jan. 1, Mamdani said.
Several notable high-profile names on the committees include:
Former FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, a veteran of Eric Adams’ administration, who is on the government operations committee.
Rodney Harrison, a widely respected NYPD and Suffolk County police official, will serve on the community safety committee.
De Blasio’s former health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot sits on the health committee.
Kathryn Wylde — who heads the business group Partnership for New York City, is part of Mamdani’s economic and workforce development committee.
Jed Walentas, the chair of Real Estate Board of New York, gives the real estate industry a voice in Mamdani’s transition as part of its housing committee.
Christine Marinoni, wife of lefty “Sex and the City” actress and onetime gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, is on the youth and education committee. She had donated $1,100 to Mamdani’s campaign.
More over at The New York Post:
NYC DSA leaders get coveted roles in Zohran Mamdani transition as mayor-elect crams committees with lefty advocates, de Blasio vets https://t.co/irCNKTuj00 pic.twitter.com/UcOYGROTvb
— New York Post (@nypost) November 25, 2025
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