Zohran Mamdani’s campaign persona called into question by vote to give himself raise: critics

Source: New York Post

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani voted to drastically raise his state Assembly salary on the taxpayers’ dime days before Christmas 2022 — a move critics are citing as clashing with his campaign image as a political outsider fighting for the working class. The pay hike brought state lawmaker pay from $110,000 to $142,000 a year, after they gave themselves a bump from $79,500 just three years earlier. That brought the state legislature including Mamdani – who lives in one of the city’s coveted rent-stabilized apartments — to an income level that is now 77% above the median for city dwellers, and almost three times that of the median for New York state residents.