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STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Mamdani’s Influencer Army Targets NYC CEOs to Sell a Tax Hike Wed Sep 30 19:48:59 2026

People around DSA Mayor Zohran Mamdani have been talking about a coordinated pressure campaign on the CEOs of the city’s largest employers. Sources told the New York Post the plan is a run of targeted posts meant to isolate certain business leaders while City Hall pushes a larger tax package into early fall. The September […] The post Mamdani’s Influencer Army Targets NYC CEOs to Sell a Tax Hike appeared first on StoneZone .

People around DSA Mayor Zohran Mamdani have been talking about a coordinated pressure campaign on the CEOs of the city’s largest employers. Sources told the New York Post the plan is a run of targeted posts meant to isolate certain business leaders while City Hall pushes a larger tax package into early fall. The September 28 exclusive said the “bullpen,” Mamdani’s inner circle, is preparing coordinated smears against top New York CEOs. The vehicle is his 200-strong “influencer army ,” described as a taxpayer-funded digital operation, a troll farm in all but name. The aim is to bash those executives and sell the public on his tax-and-spend agenda. Two aides were named as leading the digital side: Tascha Van Auken, 50, director of the Office of Mass Engagement and a veteran DSA organizer who ran Mamdani’s campaign ground operation, and Emilia Rowland , director of new media and cultural communications and a former DNC press secretary. Mamdani aides and DSA organizers, coordinating in Signal chats, planned a campaign against Partnership CEOs and board members. A Daily Wire / Manhattan Institute review of accounts in City Hall’s Signal chat orbit found posts backing police and prison abolition, dismantling ICE, and attacking Israel. Christina Brown, @missxtinab, celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination, writing “violence was an answer,” said ICE agents should be poisoned, and wrote that she hates America and wants it to fall. Megan Klink of Pretty Informed Girls called ICE “a f*ing Gestapo.” Cassie Willson, who has filmed with the mayor, posted: “Free Palestine, f*ck Donald Trump . . . billionaires shouldn’t exist . . . no war but class war.” Matt Bernstein framed a Hezbollah-inspired synagogue attack as “violence begets violence.” City Hall has released no full roster. Rowland said the office “engage[s] broadly and in good faith, including with people who may disagree.” The posts are the record. Their first institutional target is the Partnership for New York City. Kathryn Wylde is out. Steve Fulop, the former Jersey City mayor, took over in January. One source said the plan was to “blindside” Fulop because he is new. “They want to punch Fulop in the face,” the source said. “Kathy Wylde knew the ropes. Fulop is new, so there’s never been a better opportunity to go at CEOs.” More attacks on the Partnership board are planned through year’s end. Names already floated included Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, over drug prices, and Related Companies CEO Jeff Blau, tied to a $2 billion Hudson Yards expansion. “Anybody is fair game as long as you’ve got money,” one person briefed on the plans said. “There is a menu of options that is presented to the mayor.” The calendar is the point. Mamdani wanted the tax-the-rich agenda out in early fall to lock in state money at the start of 2027. He is seeking a two-percentage-point hike on incomes over $1 million and a rise in the top corporate rate from 7.25% to 11.5% . Combined with existing city and state levies, the top marginal rate on the city’s wealthiest would reach 16.8%, the highest in the country.   The Citizens Budget Commission has projected a $13.2 billion gap by fiscal year 2028. One Democratic insider doubted the tactic would move its targets. “Do they seriously think Jamie Dimon, who is responsible for overseeing $5 trillion in assets, is going to buckle because a few teenagers are pressuring him on TikTok?” The timing is also a headache for Gov. Kathy Hochul as she faces a Republican challenge from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla donated to her first campaign for governor, and Pfizer’s PAC has given more than $36,000 to state Democratic groups. Ryan Adams of Actum said Wall Street still treats Hochul as the adult in the room, “until somebody makes her choose.” City Hall denied it. Spokesperson Dora Pekec said: “This is categorically false. The New York Post is publishing a complete lie.” She refused to identify any specific inaccuracies. The Partnership was approached for comment before publication. Griffin later called the stunt “creepy and weird ,” said it endangered his safety, and raised pulling a $6 billion Park Avenue project. Citadel also has a headquarters in Miami. After a closed-door meeting with the mayor in May, Dimon said he has seen mayors “fail abysmally because they can’t administer themselves out of a paper bag, or ideology blinds them to practical, realistic, real-world policy.” In his April shareholder letter he wrote, “Individuals vote with their feet,” and described “a fairly large exodus of people and jobs out of some states with high taxes and high expenses.” He has pointed to that shift toward lower-tax states, including Texas, where JPMorgan has grown its headcount while cutting jobs in New York City. That is the bet City Hall is making in a city that still lives off the jobs and tax base of these companies and residents. A DSA mayor, a taxpayer-funded influencer army, and a plan to isolate the people who write the largest paychecks. DSA politics wants the money and treats the people who produce it in New York City as props for its unsustainable agenda. 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