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Rule No. 1 at Mamdani’s City Hall: Keep the public in the dark

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The arrogant socialists running Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall believe they can rule by decree and without restraint.

Even as this crew constantly touts its own “transparency,” it’s blatantly stonewalling on basic Freedom of Information Law requests, routinely setting a yawning six-month turnaround even on even mundane matters.

Commissioner Ana Maria Archila of the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs arranged a notorious meeting with Iran’s UN ambassador, which only came to light when the State Department squashed it.

City Journal asked about other meetings Archila may have arranged with America’s avowed enemies; the mayor’s office said it’d take at least six months to comb through the records.

Six months? All it takes is to look at her calendar.

It turns out........

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