What a bullshit misleading and intentionally inflamatory title. The city council wants to give everyone in city goverment a raise, namely themselves. Mamdani would just be one of many to get the raise if it were passed. He has nothing to do with asking for, advocating for it, or even any sign currently that he would approve it as mayor. And even if he did agree to it, 100k is not a massive amount of money in NYC, and the city council getting a 16% raise for the first time in 10 years after record breaking inflation isn’t crazy either. This title is intentionally phrased to imply corruption on Mandani’s part when the actual story has barely anything to do with him.
This seems like right wing bait. I don’t have a problem with people making 200-300k especially in a very high cost of living place like NYC. I have a problem with people who literally make 1,000x that. Let’s not forget the math on how absurd being a billionaire is. Working class needs to stop this infighting and focus on the real problem.
They need to peg their salary to some kind of metric or have some kind of cap based on the lowest paid employee.
I think their salary should be the median wage of their constituents.
This would drive politicians of all levels to try and improve the lives of everyone they represent.
You get in representing your local section of council and average income is 100k that’s what you earn.
You make changes and improve lively hood, all for a sudden you earn 110k everyone is 10k richer.
The biggest issue I see is it might cause politicians to drive gentrification in their represented area though.
Agreed, should be tied to minimum wage. That said, the cynic in me thinks they’d just change the multiplier as they pleased.
Is it bad optics? Absolutely.
But anyone who earns an actual paycheck should be on the same team, or at least given the benefit of the doubt.
The enemy makes their money by simply having money, that’s not what this is.
Sign the bill to ingratiate yourself with the councilors. Then, each quarter publically and loudly donate 25k USD to programs that are being un- or under-funded by the council. Win-win.
Especially if this will convince the council to raise the NYC minimum wage to a living wage.
This made me think about how the Swedish left party does things, if you are a member of the left party and hold an elected position, you are only allowed to earn X SEK, if the held position grants you a higher income, anything above X goes to the party.
It’d be so dang nice to live in a world that had this as the standard. Almost hard to imagine after living all this life stateside, but I’d like to believe it could someday be
Is this necessary?
I’m sure they think so. Its not just an increase for Mamdani, it is for all of City Council. Their last pay increase was 2016 according to the article.
This of course is not a vacuum though, and I’m sure the rest of New York’s average workers have gotten the hard end of a stick for the last decade as well.
I’m sure that most NYC workers have seen a $100k raise over the last 9 years so this all seems above board.
To be fair… that’s just Mamdani’s… it’s a lot less for the regular council members. Not sure how exactly it’s structured since Mamdani’s increase would definitely be more than 16%.
A proposal filed this week by Councilwoman Nantasha Williams, a Queens Democrat, would boost council members’ annual pay by 16% from $148,500 to $172,500, the New York Post reported.
If approved, the proposed pay hike would also apply to the new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and borough presidents. It would raise Mamdani’s pay to nearly $350,000 from the current $258,000 with benefits.It looks to me a bit more like establishment Dems trying to lay a trap for a Democratic Socialist taking office. He approves it and seemingly immediately does the opposite of part of his election platform, improving affordability for average New Yorkers. Or he doesn’t and there’s immediate friction with basically every member of the council board that he needs to actually accomplish anything.
Yep, even the article itself basically implies that it’s sabotage:
Mamdani would be required to sign the bill — and face criticism from voters — or veto it, creating early friction with councilors whose votes he’ll need to advance his legislative agenda.
He could maybe take it and donate the money, but people are so low information they wouldn’t find out.
Like Trump does with his presidential salary?
Lol, I think ive gotten like 2 or 3 raises since 2016. So give them like $3.00 like the rest of us and call it a day. That would be $6240 extra a year.
Normal jobs give like 3% raises per year. This is not that.
This is almost precisely that. It’s 1% more than 3% per year over 10 years for mayor, and half that for the council members.
Ah. Well I stand corrected. Thanks.
Politicians.
I’m gonna laugh when he pulls a Fetterman
Maybe he will, but this title is intentionally misleading to make you think it is about Mamdani being corrupt. In fact he has nothing to do with the NYC City Council’s actions, who are clearly trying to get a raise for themselves (a 16% raise and the first one in 10 years after record breaking inflation… not the craziest ask), and will only be one of many to get a pay raise in city government if it is passed. And there is no word on whether Mamdani even approves of this pay raise.
Does he have a long history I’m pulling the shit fetterman did but it was all ignored in the election?
His model would be AOC not Fetterman. Platner is the next Fetterman.
Let’s hope, but so far the odds are good he will not be the lefty people think he is.
There’s nothing to indicate he will about-face like Fetterman. He will endlessly compromise, concede, and triangulate like AOC does and that’s what he has been doing, (eg Tisch). That’s the inevitable reality of being a socialist politician in a capitalist state and why Marx advised against actually getting elected, especially to an executive. Believing he was secretly a fraud all along is Hollywood brained.
In what ways did you predict that Fetterman would flip prior to being elected?
Fetterman never said he was a socialist or anti-zionist. People only ever liked him because he was pro m4a and because the elites hated him for wearing hoodies in the senate. No one knew just how much of a raging Zionist he was until after 10/7. Fetterman is not the reference for Mamdani. That is AOC.
Time will tell
Lol goddammit, you have one job
What job? The job he hasn’t been sworn into yet?
