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My only (so default biggest) issue with Mamdani is he kept Jess Tisch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Tisch
She’s the nepo daughter of the Lowes CEO which somehow was good enough to become NYPD commissioner under Eric Addams.
If there was ever a reason to keep her, it’s getting NYPD to arrest ICE. If that doesn’t happen here, I can’t think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.
If that doesn’t happen here, I can’t think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.
Politically this is gift to Mamdani that she holds the position:
- He didn’t appoint her, so he has low risk of keeping her
- It can make him look apollitical that he is willing to keep on staff from the previous administration and not act purely on political grounds
- He earns political points, influence, and support from the rich family because he did not remove her
- She knows she has a political target on her back, so she’s incentivized to keep him happy carrying out his mandates
- When NYPD has a scandal, he can immediately point to her, and her leadership, and fire/prosecute her for it
- When the removal finally does happen he’ll score points with his base for removing yet another relic of the Adams administration and be able to appoint a reformer
