<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Wednesday, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani revealed the four members of his transition team. Examining their public comments, it is not difficult to see why the hard-leftist Mamdani would select them.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani, 35, named Elana Leopold — who served in several senior roles under former Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio — as well as former FTC Commissioner Lina Khan, Maria Torres-Springer, former Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development &amp; Workforce in Eric Adams’s administration, and Melanie Hartzog, former Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services under de Blasio.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Leopold helped run the Broad Room, “a political action training camp for young women and those who identify as nonbinary,” <a href="https://fortune.com/ranking/40-under-40/2020/monica-klein-elana-leopold/">Fortune</a> reported.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Khan, who was born in London to a family of Pakistani origin, served as Chair of the FTC from June 15, 2021, until January 31, 2025. <span data-state="closed">She has slammed the Trump administration, <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener/publications/lina-khan-stone-lecture?utm_source=chatgpt.com">saying</a> </span>at the 2025 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality at the Harvard Kennedy School, “As we look beyond the DOGE wreckage, we should figure out what a reformed approach to governing should look like, rather than assume we should go back to the way things have been.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We&#8217;re here to talk about what I think will be legacy-defining for this administration, and that is our support of minority and women-owned businesses across the city,” Torres-Springer <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2024/11/transcript-mayor-adams-celebrates-back-to-back-record-breaking-years-supporting">stated</a> in November 2024.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking about the New York Democratic proposal to raise the age for teenagers who have committed crimes to serve time in adult prisons, Hartzog <a href="https://www.nyrealestatelawblog.com/manhattan-litigation-blog/2015/march/lets-keep-kids-out-of-prison/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>, “It’s outdated. It’s unfair. &#8230; We need to keep youth out of adult prisons.” In 2021, when the De Blasio administration required all New York City employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, she <a href="https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/all-new-york-city-employees-will-be-required-to-get-covid-vaccine-report?utm_source=chatgpt.com">declared</a>, “This mandate is a bold step that protects our families, friends, and communities, including those that are not yet eligible for the vaccine such as our City&#8217;s youngest residents. It builds on our continued leadership and innovative strategies to fighting this pandemic and bring us a step closer to a recovery for all.”</p>

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