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DSA at City Hall's table
Good-government group Citizens Union says Mayor Mamdani's Democratic Socialists of America chapter crossed an ethical line by staffing a table alongside city agency staff and transit advocacy groups at his city-run Central Brooklyn bus riders' town hall. The city's Conflicts of Interest Board declined this spring to write clear rules on political activity at government-sponsored events, leaving critics with no rule to cite as Mamdani's ties to his self-described political home draw scrutiny over where his movement ends and City Hall begins.
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NYC-DSA set up its own table alongside city agency staff and transit advocacy groups at Mayor Mamdani's Central Brooklyn bus riders' town hall, prompting Citizens Union executive director Grace Rauh to call it deeply concerning, Spectrum News NY1 reported. City Hall said DSA's transit working group was invited for its expertise, the same as Riders Alliance and Transportation Alternatives, while DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo said the group was one of many nonprofits offering tools to fight for a stronger bus system.
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