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Team Mamdani’s pied-à-terre-tax hearing boycott shows total contempt for democracy

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mass doxxing of city property owners was such a PR disaster that his office boycotted the City Council’s hearing about the pied-à-terre tax rollout, preposterously claiming that it couldn’t let anyone speak about an issue that’s the subject of an active lawsuit.

Rubbish! The city faces constant litigation on all sorts of issues — labor disputes, NYPD policies, charter schools — without preventing the mayor’s office from talking freely.

No: Team Mamdani simply wants to duck accountability for the latest in a series of high-profile missteps.

So it boycotted a public hearing packed with testimony about the thousands........

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