Zohran Mamdani - Democratic Socialist Mayor of NYC

[myboynoah]

Governing is hard.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The warmth of collectivism just killed a bunch of homeless people. Whoops.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

It's good to see teh social justice warriors are getting paid positions in NYC. All that social justice warrioring is paying off.

Haha.

Sticking it to the man by becoming the man.

[Moliere]

It's good to see teh social justice warriors are getting paid positions in NYC. All that social justice warrioring is paying off.

[dabrockster]

This country is being run into the ground by a pervy, geriatric ex-reality TV and various hateful and otherwise unqualified cabinet members. Conservatives need something to get worked up about and awfulize over.

Or maybe we look at the hypocrisy of lefties like yourself and love to pour out your bullshit when the coin is flipped on your side.

Pay no attention to the guy who pistol-whipped a Cab driver.. Amiright Frankie.

[frank ryan]

One appointment at a time. Are you willing to concede that the multiple paragraph hit piece was pretty unwarranted for one of 400 New Yorkers on committees? If you look at his reasoning for the appointment, it makes a lot of sense:

This country is being run into the ground by a pervy, geriatric ex-reality TV and various hateful and otherwise unqualified cabinet members. Conservatives need something to get worked up about and awfulize over.

[LVAllen]

Wait. Soo. Stanley Richard who was also incarcerated was named as the new commissioner. GASP!!



https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/1/3...n-commissioner

One appointment at a time. Are you willing to concede that the multiple paragraph hit piece was pretty unwarranted for one of 400 New Yorkers on committees? If you look at his reasoning for the appointment, it makes a lot of sense:

We put together a team of more than 400 New Yorkers who are on 17 different committees, and these are New Yorkers who bring with them both a fluency of the policies and politics of the city, the places that they've succeeded, the places that they've failed, and we will take all of their experiences and their analysis into account as we build a city for each and every person.

[Northwestcoug]

Wait. Soo. Stanley Richard who was also incarcerated was named as the new commissioner. GASP!!



https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/1/3...n-commissioner

If he's qualified then bring it on. Either the penal system has both justice and rehabilitation goals or it doesn't. If he's paid his debt to society then let him address what he likely knows too well.

[dabrockster]

Now see, there's a more valid criticism! Bringing an ex-con to run the NY jail? That seems sus, as the kids might say. But then you get to this line:

"serve on the incoming administration's criminal legal system transition committee."

Your complaint is that he got appointed to one of 17 transition committees? Not even that he appointed him to serve in his administration with a portfolio that includes the criminal justice system, but that he's on a committee with.. let me check.. 19 other members?

This kind of thing is why I can't take your criticisms at face value.

Wait. Soo. Stanley Richard who was also incarcerated was named as the new commissioner. GASP!!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed Stanley Richards, the former head of The Fortune Society, to serve as the city’s next commissioner of the Department of Correction.

Richards, a longtime criminal justice reformer, has a unique perspective of the city’s DOC and the jails the agency runs. He once served as a top deputy in the DOC under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. He’s also fought for reforms from the outside as an advocate and criminal justice nonprofit leader.

Richards also knows what it's like to be locked up in the city’s jail complex. With his appointment on Saturday, Richards became the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the DOC.

https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/1/3...n-commissioner

[LVAllen]

Now see, there's a more valid criticism! Bringing an ex-con to run the NY jail? That seems sus, as the kids might say. But then you get to this line:

"serve on the incoming administration's criminal legal system transition committee."

Your complaint is that he got appointed to one of 17 transition committees? Not even that he appointed him to serve in his administration with a portfolio that includes the criminal justice system, but that he's on a committee with.. let me check.. 19 other members?

This kind of thing is why I can't take your criticisms at face value.

[dabrockster]

I know. Let’s not worry about Snow or trains when we can look at the hiring of a convicted felon to run Rickers.

“Que the defense or why he is a good hire and all the experience he brings as an activist and former role as First Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. Originally appointed by De-Blast (SHOCKER!).. An appointed position. Not hired for experience in how to run a state-agency. But again, he is not going to be running things as the r federal govt. runs Rickers due to the poor conditions etc.

Mysonne Linen, once convicted of armed robbery, has been appointed by New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani to serve on the incoming administration's criminal legal system transition committee.

The Bronx-born rapper, who was once signed to Def Jam Recordings, served seven years in prison after his 1999 conviction for two armed robberies. He has since become a social justice activist, co-founding of the organization Until Freedom, which combats racial injustice.

The 49-year-old was a rising rap star in the late 1990s when a Bronx jury found him guilty of being part of a group that robbed two cab drivers - on June 8, 1997, and March 31, 1998, according to the New York Daily News reporting at the time.

Linen has always insisted he was innocent, arguing that he had no reason to take part in the robberies because he was making money in music, as his breakthrough as a solo artist had taken place that summer.

While he was cleared of assault, he was found guilty of three counts of robbery, weapons possession and possession of stolen property, according to the New York Daily News.

Benny Boscio, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, a labor union representing correction officers, is one of the multiple people who have spoken out against the choice.

“It is both disheartening and deeply disturbing that individuals who are convicted felons and have a history of breaking the law are being given the opportunity to help shape the future of New York’s criminal justice system,” he told the New York Post.

[Northwestcoug]

Hey let's give Mamdani more than a month to make the trains run on time, OK?

[LVAllen]

Ha. Look for any excuse other than the fact they have an incompetent Newly Elected Mayor who has never held an office in his life..

I live in Columbus, Ohio and the city and all of our streets were cleared within days.

Riiight. Because it's the Mayor who is plowing the roads, not 2,500 Sanitation workers in 12 hour shifts, backed up with another 500 emergency shovelers and 8 snow-melting machines.

This is such a ridiculous criticism. They weren't unprepared. They weren't on strike. He didn't withhold snow removal services, cut their budget, or act in any way different than any other mayor.

[dabrockster]

I mean, record-breaking amounts of snow will do that. New Jersey is also having trouble with clearing it, so if someone is pretending that this has something to do with the mayor, the facts disagree.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live...-winter-storm/

Ha. Look for any excuse other than the fact they have an incompetent Newly Elected Mayor who has never held an office in his life..

I live in Columbus, Ohio and the city and all of our streets were cleared within days.

[LVAllen]

I guess the NYers didn’t get the memo about how they all need to “collectively” get their shovel and help clear the roads..

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I mean, record-breaking amounts of snow will do that. New Jersey is also having trouble with clearing it, so if someone is pretending that this has something to do with the mayor, the facts disagree.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live...-winter-storm/