There’s Zo love lost.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unveiled a brain trust of more than 100 New York elected officials he said will help enact his sprawling socialist agenda — but prominent pols who didn’t back his historic run got snubbed.
The “Elected Officials Advisory Committee” notably did not include Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Brooklyn) and incoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin, none of whom supported Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.
Some insiders — including sources in the room as the group privately convened Friday — mocked the Mamdani-loving lineup as monotonous.
“The elected advisory committee should include leaders who didn’t ‘endorse and champion’ Mamdani’s politics and policy agenda,” said Ken Frydman, a Democratic political operative.
“Like moderate Democrats, conservative Republicans and independents.”
The meetup came just 20 days before Mamdani takes office and he has so far only announced three administration appointments, including NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch — and none in roughly a month.
The Queens assemblyman and his handful of incoming top aides told the elected officials that more City Hall picks will be announced in the coming days, a source in the room said.
But the insider said Mamdani’s team largely talked big, with few actual details.
“It felt more like to validate them than us,” the source said.
The committee includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx), Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), who waited until just days before the Nov. 4 election to endorse Mamdani, also joined the group.
But even some prominent Mamdani backers didn’t make the cut, such as former congressman Jamaal Bowman.
Mamdani, in remarks to reporters after the committee’s first meeting, hyped the roster as a team that supports his “affordability” agenda from all ranks of government representing the city.
“It’s an approach that seeks to find cooperation amidst the collective that listens to different views, instead of hiding in an echo chamber,” he said.
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