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

The Mayor’s controversial, $54-million office of “Mass Engagement” repeatedly spammed New Yorkers with Mamdani-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...