Newsmax continues its freakout over Zohran Mamdani being mayor of New York City with a Jan. 2 article:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to reshape the city’s judiciary, and his latest appointment is raising fresh questions about whether the selection process will become even more politicized under the city’s new progressive leadership.
In a press release issued Friday, Mamdani announced the appointment of civil rights and election attorney Ali Najmi as chair of the newly revitalized Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
The mayor also signed an executive order aimed at making judicial selection “more transparent and accessible” to New Yorkers.
The article quoted no actual critics, instead whining that he’s Muslim and liberal:
According to the NYC News Service, Najmi was born and raised in Queens, comes from a Pakistani background, and is Muslim.
He is a graduate of Oberlin College and CUNY School of Law, and has been involved in Democrat organizing, including leadership roles tied to the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, a group he helped found to mobilize Muslim voters and boost progressive candidates.
Najmi has also made clear his deep alignment with progressive criminal justice priorities, backing proposals to shift public safety away from traditional policing models — a direction critics warn could further weaken law-and-order enforcement in the nation’s largest city.
Jim Thomas sought to blame Mamdani for issues that predate his mayorship in a Feb. 5 article:
Tens of thousands of New York City residents reported losing heat or hot water in January as freezing temperatures plunged. Some tenants blamed democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for an inadequate response, while city housing officials pointed to enforcement tools and long-running infrastructure problems.
Accounts given to the New York Post described tenants in multiple neighborhoods who said they went days without heat or hot water during January’s cold weather.
[…]Breitbart reported that about 80,000 people called 311 in January to report a lack of heat and hot water, calling it the highest monthly total on record.
Separately, the city’s Housing Preservation and Development agency posted season-to-date figures showing 215,045 heat complaints for the current heat season through Jan. 29, compared with 187,775 over the same point in the prior heat season.
Mamdani, sworn in Jan. 1, is facing questions about the city’s emergency response and heat enforcement.
The report also linked the surge in complaints to Mamdani’s housing agenda and his appointment of tenant advocate Cea Weaver to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.
Thomas didn’t mention that the New York Post is a right-wing, anti-Mamdani newspaper.
Sam Barron manufactured another controversy in a Feb. 10 article:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism after skipping the installation of the new archbishop of New York, becoming the first city mayor in nearly a century to miss the ceremony.
Ronald Hicks was installed last Friday as the 11th archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan in a ceremony attended by thousands.
Though Mamdani was nowhere to be found, he acknowledged the event with a post on social media.
[…]The mayor’s office told the New York Post that Mamdani had a scheduling conflict, sending one of his deputy mayors, a Catholic, to the ceremony instead.
“The mayor didn’t go, but he tweeted about it,” an aide for Mamdani told another reporter, according to the Post.
Since at least 1939, every New York City mayor, starting with Fiorello LaGuardia, has attended an archbishop ceremony.
Barron similarly failed to disclose the New York Post’s anti-Mamdani agenda.