The upstart now surging ahead in polls to be top banana in New York City as the race to succeed Mayor Eric Adams takes shape more than four months before election days was schooled at the Harvard of the North, in Brunswick.
Maine’s pre-eminent institution of higher learning proudly boasts “preparing the next generation for climate and sustainability.”
Little does Bowdoin College realize it may be becoming a cauldron of unsustainable climate warriors and left-wing radicals.
In its heyday the Brunswick school produced original thinkers.
Before it went woke, the college pumped out luminaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Joshua Chamberlain and Franklin Pierce.
They may have been radical thinkers in their day but they’ve got nothing on Zohran Mamdani, Bowdoin class of 2014, endorsed by the New York City Democratic Socialists of America for mayor of the country’s biggest city.
While at Bowdoin, Mamdani co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
The Uganda native graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies.
In his junior year he wrote a piece for the school paper lecturing why college parties where booze is served shouldn’t be “places without consequence.”
Sounds like a fun guy.
After Mamdani got involved in politics, his work included field organizing for socialist Tiffany Cabán, who ran a failed 2019 campaign for Queens County District Attorney.
Mamdani has represented New York’s 36th State Assembly district in Queens since 2021.
He worked as a foreclosure-prevention counselor before running for office, evidence that Bowdoin prepared him well to govern 8,000,000 people.
Suffice to say his politics are not those of Republican Curtis Sliwa, the famed head of New York city’s civilian police force also running for mayor.
Founder of the Guardian Angels, Sliwa’s crime-fighting prowess is nothing to fool around with.
In fact, his national reputation even brought him to Portland, Maine in 1980 when he helped organize a satellite arm of the Angels.
Sliwa and his wife Lisa, who co-founded the Angels, met with young crime-fighter wannabes in Deering Oaks, a park near Portland’s Back Bay.
Mamdani has no such sweeping reputation, Bowdoin or no Bowdoin.
Sliwa is so confident his platform can Trump a socialist’s that he believes he can be elected even as a Republican in liberal New York City.
But it’s former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who is closest to Mamdani in the polls, trailing him by just a few points.
Mamdani ‘s Bowdoin-derived socialist thinking includes plans for government-owned grocery stores, taxpayer-financed “free” child care, making NYC an LGBTQIA+ sanctuary city, and creating the Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, to name just a few.
His plan for fighting crime? Hire social workers, not cops.
