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Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoral primary by 12% after ranked choice voting, winning 2/3 of all ranked choice votes.
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As someone who has been in several of the struggle sessions around him, I don't think he's the second coming of Lenin, but from what I've heard about his plans for NY, I generally think his position will be useful as long as attempts to implement them occur. He'll either get them through, which I think would increase leftward support, or he'll get ratfucked in the most blatant manner possible. Both are useful for agitprop. The only thing that would be a net negative, in my opinion, would be bending the knee.
From some of the vids I have seen come from him, it does seem like he's already planned around getting ratfucked to some degree when attempting to implement change and use it for agitation, but frankly, I've been busy, so I haven't consumed enough to take a hardened stance.
I worked on the campaign and can tell you with certainty that he has been prepared for resistance and ratfuckery all of the way
I've been unemployed and realized too late the campaign was paying canvassers $30/hr (per the job posting). I would have done that!
Now I'm just refreshing his jobs page hoping for something new. I'm tired of tech work anyway.
Don’t sweat it too much. Only a handful of canvassers were getting paid (less than 100 out of 50000 if I had to estimate) and it was mostly to have people on staff who were fluent in one or more of the rarer languages found around the city to reach enclaves of particular language speakers that were hard to find regular volunteers for.
If that does describe you though, keep your eyes posted around the second half of this month. Some new positions like that should be opening up. It’s pretty much all assessment and drafting up strategy for the time being.