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Mamdani has said transition officials like Mysonne Linen will make both 'personnel recommendations' and 'policy recommendations'Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped a convicted felon who served seven years for a string of armed robberies targeting New York City taxi drivers to advise him on the "criminal legal system." Mysonne Linen, a rapper-turned-social justice activist, will serve on Mamdani's "criminal legal system committee," 1 of 17 committees that Mamdani created to help transition into his administration. Mamdani said the appointees "will be tasked with not only making personnel recommendations but policy recommendations."Linen served seven years in prison for armed robberies in 1997 and...

November morning in New Hampshire. Pat Buchanan is standing among the men and women of a footwear factory, listening to the assembly-line cobblers about the threats posed by cheap imported shoes to not only their jobs but their communities and their country. It’s an early winter evening in Wheeling. The guys at the pub [wonder] what they will do when the smelter shuts down, never to be re-opened. How could we lose? Surely America will see what’s coming? Surely conservatives and the Republican Party will embrace the cause of these Americans whose efforts defeated first fascism and then communism, only...

Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani expressed confidence that he is leading a “movement that won the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party” in a progressive-packed rally Monday.Mamdani spoke alongside embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James, former Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan, and a host of other progressive Democrats in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.The state assemblyman is battling with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa to become the city’s next mayor.The Democratic Socialists of America member got his hits in on President Donald Trump while rallying his movement, which showed...

Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist and Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, shocked the political establishment with his primary win last month, including New York City real estate executives, with his radical ideas, like rent freezes and tax plans that single out specific neighborhoods. Marc Holliday, CEO of SL Green, a New York-based real-estate investment trust, is hosting a fundraiser for Mamdani's opponent, Mayor Eric Adams, at One Madison Avenue, one of his office towers, on Wednesday, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Holliday invited dozens of New York City's top real-estate executives to the rooftop cocktail...

The millennials now are the majority of the population. It's no longer the baby boomers. You have to have the ability to get millennials which I have...