They’re redistributing the wealth.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition committee has raised at least $3.7 million as it hurtles toward the lefty’s Jan. 1 inauguration, campaign officials said — far outpacing his predecessors’ pre-office hauls with mixed results.
More than half of Mamdani’s nearly 30,000 transition donors hailed from outside New York, with 91 of those ponying up the maximum $3,700 donation, according to campaign finance records.
The committee has so far raised a haul that puts to shame those from outgoing Mayor Eric Adams and his predecessor Bill de Blasio’s first term.
De Blasio’s 2014 transition committee raised $609,000, meaning Mamdani drew four times as much cash as his — at least until recently — favorite living mayor, records show.
Adams did better, raising $967,000 ahead of his ascendance to City Hall in 2022, but still far short of his socialist successor.
Mamdani’s campaign revealed this week that the transition raised $3.7 million, but official city Campaign Finance Board records have yet to include donations received in December.
Those slightly outdated campaign finance records show that 244 of Mamdani’s transition donors shelled out the maximum $3,700 allowed under the law.
Three of those donors actually exceed the $3,700 limit, a Post analysis of campaign records found.
Mamdani’s campaign said the transition sent back those maxed-out donations.
None of Mamdani’s transition donors were from people with overseas addresses, unlike his general election campaign — which had to return $9,000 in those potentially illegal donations.
Mamdani’s spokeswoman Dora Pekec focused on the healthy contingent of locals who coughed up smaller, more socialist-friendly amounts.
“Fueled by grassroots donors with a median donation of just $25, our transition fund makes it possible to recruit top talent and host an inauguration where thousands of New Yorkers can gather to celebrate our shared vision for a new era,” she said.
The transition has been notable for both its grand plans for a Lower Manhattan block party celebrating the socialist phenom’s inauguration and the team’s slow pace in filling key City Hall positions.
The bigheaded “Inauguration of a New Era” block party expects up to 50,000 New Yorkers who celebrate Mamdani’s ceremonial swearing in by his hero Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Mamdani’s transition will pay for the inaugural bash, his team said — although they haven’t yet provided an estimated cost.
His star-studded inaugural committee includes actors Cynthia Nixon and John Turturro, acclaimed novelists Min Jin Lee and Colson Whitehead and children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel, the transition announced Wednesday.
“This is a celebration of the movement that made this victory possible, and the beginning of a new dawn for our city,” Mamdani said in a statement.
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