Critics ripped Brooklyn School for utilizing its public campus to host what quantities to a partisan occasion to spice up socialist Zohran Mamdani’s bid to change into NYC mayor.
The “Combat Oligarchy” City Corridor hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) set for Saturday night time at Brooklyn School’s Leonard & Claire Tow Middle for the Performing Arts crosses the road as a result of its promotions tout the looks of “particular visitor Zohran Mamdani,” in accordance with Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who served as a CUNY trustee for 15 years throughout the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
“It is a political occasion,” Wiesenfeld informed The Put up.
“Oligarchy my ass. Sanders is coming to New York to assist Mamdani.”
“There isn’t a counterpoint,” stated Wiesenfeld, including different mayoral candidates – together with incumbent Eric Adams, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa – aren’t scheduled to talk.
Jerry Cammarata, a longtime Staten Island Republican operative and educator who as soon as sat on town’s former Board of Training, can be elevating a stink.
“It being completed at a public school!” he raged. “Maintain a candidate debate — not defeat the integrity of public training!”
“There ought to be an outcry from the Board of Trustees, condemning the occasion and demanding cancellation. If not, they gave approval and are complicit in disrespecting the sacred floor of a public school and the extraordinary neighborhood round them.”
Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa stated Sanders is “returning to his roots” at Brooklyn School – the place the lefty attended throughout the 1959-1960 tutorial 12 months earlier than transferring to the College of Chicago — to push Mamdani.
“He’s trying to deliver it full circle in passing off his socialist torch that he carried to his protégé Zohran on the campus that fed his socialist beliefs. He now has developed AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] his inheritor obvious, and Zohran his protégé.”
CUNY deferred remark to Brooklyn School, which is a part of the taxpayer-funded metropolis college system.
The faculty in an announcement stated “the Leonard and Claire Tow Center is part of the Brooklyn School campus. Any candidate is welcome to hire this facility.”
Reps for Mamdani and Sanders didn’t return messages.
Mamdani earlier Saturday walked alongside fellow comrade Sanders on the Labor Day Parade alongside Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
