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Zohran Mamdani's incoming staff includes the mayor-elect's longtime chief advisor, who has been dubbed the "chief architect" of Mamdani's campaign proposal to have social workers respond to certain non-violent 911 calls in New York City.
The heavily criticized proposal was drummed up by the Ivy League-educated, California-native Elle Bisgaard-Church, a relative political newcomer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Bisgaard-Church was tapped by Mamdani Monday to once again be his chief adviser while running the helm at New York City's City Hall after serving in the same post during his campaign and during his state assembly days.
Bisgaard-Church has been credited with being pivotal to getting Mamdani's message to voters, and campaign staff dub her the "chief architect" behind Mamdani's Department of Community Safety proposal, according to CBS News.
Be informed, not misled.
CBS News says, "She brings a bold progressive vision and a commitment to drive real change in City Hall."
Change would be an understatement. New York City will now become an official experimental lab for socialism.
Socialism has never worked in human history, and it won't work now. The problem is that it dies slowly and takes everyone and everything down with it---except those few who amass personal power from it.
CBS tells its viewers, "Mamdani said the appointments would help him build 'a powerful and competent administration that delivers an affordable, livable city for working people.'"
"I've spent my entire career guided by a commitment to serving working New Yorkers. Today, we stand at an exciting moment of promise for our city. I'm grateful to help build and carry out this vision for a new era of leadership, and to ensure that City Hall deploys all of the tools at its disposal to deliver on Zohran Mamdani's affordability agenda," Fuleihan said.
"It's been the honor of a lifetime to lead the campaign that brought hope back to New York City. Now, with sleeves rolled up, I look forward to delivering on the Mayor-elect's affordability agenda and demonstrating what a well-run City Hall can do for everyday New Yorkers." Bisgaard-Church said.
"Excellence was the rubric around which we built our campaign team, and it will be the framework through which we approach every governing decision. And excellence is not abstract. It will be reflected in the highest levels of City Hall and the advisors who most shape my decision-making," Mamdani said.
So, what are they really up to?
Fox News reports, "When developing the Department of Community Safety proposal, which aims to replace police officers with mental health professionals to deal with non-life-threatening emergencies with a focus on subway stations, Bisgaard-Church reportedly spoke to mental health experts, public safety officials from other cities, and former New York City Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Department Rodney Harrison. The new department will cost approximately $1.1 billion, according to a campaign proposal on Mamdani's website."
They note that "In addition to leading Mamdani's much-maligned Department of Community Safety proposal, Bisgaard-Church was a key player setting up weekly standing meetings with the New York City DSA chapter throughout the campaign to incorporate leadership from the groups that helped Mamdani win."
During a feature interview last month ahead of the looming mayoral election, the former student at private liberal arts Swarthmore College and the Ivy League's Columbia University, compared her motivations to those of the DSA.
"I still feel daily, deeply ashamed to live in a place where we allow people to sleep on concrete at night … and I fundamentally believe it doesn’t have to be that way. It represents (a) political choice," Bisgaard-Church told New York's City & State. "The place where I have seen that shared sense of rage at such a moral failure has been in a handful of movement organizations, including New York City DSA."
Seeing five democratic-socialist candidates win their 2020 primaries in local races in Brooklyn and Queens that initially galvanized Bisgaard-Church to apply for a role on Mamdani's team while he was a state representative, according to her City & State feature. It was a public affairs fellowship that initially brought her to the Big Apple. Still, Bisgaard-Church reportedly thought she would just end up working at some government agency after a couple of stints at various nonprofits in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Just hours after railing against the Democratic Party establishment in his victory speech, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hired an all-female transition team full of veterans from the former administrations of Michael Bloomberg, Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio, and Joe Biden.
Among those transition team members is Lina Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission chairperson under Joe Biden. When Lina Khan was chair, the FTC faced accusations from Republicans of eroding agency independence and bipartisanship, collaborating with foreign regulators to undermine U.S. companies, politicizing antitrust enforcement, and unlawful rulemaking.
Among those accusations were claims that Khan was sidelining career staff in favor of fresh blood from a cadre of dark money nonprofits funded by liberal billionaires like George Soros and Pierre Omidyar, while simultaneously pushing a strong antitrust enforcement agenda supported by such groups.
Over time, the AI Now advisors on the trade commission were credited on multiple occasions with helping craft policy and messaging, according to the FTC's website during Khan's tenure. The FTC also appeared to adopt policy statements that aligned with AI Now analyses.
Another adviser brought on to assist the trade commission under Khan, who previously worked at the Omidyar-backed Democracy Fund, had his job description amended shortly after joining to include language about helping the commission on "enforcement efforts." Law professor John Kwoka, also tapped as an advisor to the commission under Khan, previously advised the Open Markets Institute, where Khan herself was the director of legal policy. The Soros, Omidyar, and Ford networks have all passed grants to the Open Markets Institute.
Among the critics of Khan at the time of her chairmanship was Christie Wilson, the lone Republican commissioner at the FTC, who eventually resigned due to Khan's leadership. Wilson accused Khan of flouting due process and the rule of law, while also confirming she had sidelined career professionals at the FTC.
"Former FTC Chair Lina Khan became synonymous with her hostility toward businesses large and small during the Biden Administration and one of the ringleaders of Bidenomics," said GOP strategist Colin Reed when asked about Mamdani's transition team appointments. "Already the incoming mayor is breaking one of his core promises to shake up the status quo and usher in a new day."
When Fox News Digital reached out to Khan about her tenure at the FTC, she replied, "No comment."
Takeaway
It looks certain that George Soros, Omidyar, and Ford will be calling the shots in New York City. They have repeatedly shown that they hate America and all we stand for.
Back in 2020, the Washington Times published this in an op-ed, "George Soros is 89 years old, but by gosh, before he dies, he’s going to see to the internal destruction of America."
"At least that’s how it seems."
"How else can we listen to his words in Davos, Switzerland, track his funding of American political races and pay attention to what he says about President Donald Trump, capitalism, and the leftist causes he backs and the leftist Open Society Foundations he runs, and come to any other conclusion?"
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
