Mamdani’s $54M mass engagement office did little to get out the vote with questionable campaign

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial, $54 million “Office of Mass Engagement” repeatedly spammed New Yorkers with Hizzoner-branded pleas to vote leading up to the primaries this week, in what some critics called a barely legal campaign that had little effect on turnout. The newly created unit — which has been slammed as a “propaganda office” — spent weeks emailing and texting Big Apple voters with reminders about the June primaries that was denounced by some as a publicly funded electioneering effort by the mayor. “There are some things that are legal but unethical, this is one of them,” one city political operative said of the effort.