Big Tech employees have created a quandary for their companies with their financial support of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor.
According to a New York Post analysis of campaign finance data, tech workers were among the biggest group of donors to Mamdani, who won the Democrat primary earlier this summer and is widely considered to be the Big Apple’s mayoral front-runner.
The 33-year-old member of the New York Assembly vowed to raise taxes on the wealthy, and his past calls to defund the police have set off alarm bells among the city’s business and tech leaders, many of whom fear that his progressive policies will spur a San Francisco-style mass exodus.
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