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Posted on 12/06/2025 8:43:53 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
At a private home in the West Village on Tuesday evening, a cryptocurrency billionaire, a Qualcomm heir and a son of George Soros hosted a sold-out fund-raiser for Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s incoming mayor.
The next morning, Mr. Mamdani was off to TriBeCa, where a Hunt oil fortune heiress and a major cryptocurrency advocate held another fund-raiser for the mayor-elect.
Next week, he is slated to appear at a star-studded reception on the Lower East Side featuring Hollywood royalty, including Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Tituss Burgess and the director Mira Nair, who is Mr. Mamdani’s mother. The cheapest ticket costs $1,000.
Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won the mayoralty with promises to take on modern oligarchs and lower living costs. But as he works to fund his transition and Jan. 1 inauguration, he is increasingly turning to some of his wealthiest benefactors — many of whom are his ideological allies — for help.
The Mamdani transition team said on Friday that it had raised more than $3 million to date from nearly 30,000 people, using contributions as large as $3,700 from wealthier donors to supplement thousands of smaller contributions.
The funds are supporting a transition staff that appears to be larger than those of his recent predecessors…
Mr. Mamdani has attracted far more small-dollar donations than is typical during mayoral transitions; 95 percent of the contributions to his transition committee were under $250, and the average donation in November was $88, the committee said. In contrast, the donations received by Mayors Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio during their transitions averaged more than $1,000 each.
Still, the rush of events with wealthy donors runs counter to Mr. Mamdani’s populist image and puts him in a relatively unfamiliar position.
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How many of those billionaires will stay in Communist New York City? - unless they cut a deal with Momdani:
Hey New Yorkers ... as Obama once said ... “Elections have consequences”.
IOW he’s just what we all think he is: an Indian scammer spouting juvenile Robinhood slogans (elect me! take from the rich, give to the poor!) so he can slurp up massive donor cash that he’ll siphon off to himself.
The Times expects us to buy that he has and cares about “grassroots donors”.
Show them to us
Let us see them. Show them to us. We watch the Bannon show. We know what grassroots looks like
A fabulously wealthy, educated New York housewife I grew up near said it best about 20 years ago. The New York Times is a Muslim rag
How long his taliban beard grows will be a sign of his allegiance!
Welcome to New Uganda.
He was elected more than a month ago and the New York Times has published zero articles about the mass exodus from New York City and the crashing real estate prices.
Huckster Mr. Haney draws a crowd they came just to hear his hustle gig for money.
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