‘Grassroots’ Organization Fighting Miami Charter School Expansion Is Led by Democratic Operative Arrested for Stealing From Target, Pocketing Proceeds of GoFundMe Campaign, and Stiffing Mom’s Nursing Home

An activist group in South Florida that has launched a campaign against the expansion of charter schools in Miami-Dade County and bills itself as a group of "Miami moms fighting for your child’s right to read and learn" is led by a disgraced Democratic operative with a rap sheet that includes shoplifting from a local Target store and a lengthy history of civil judgments.

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Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ stunt backfires as billionaires push back



New York City Democrat mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest political stunt has wealthy investors signaling they may rethink their commitments to the once-flourishing city — just as BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales predicted.

“They’re not going to just sit there and take it. They’re going to do something about that. What do you think these millionaires that don’t even live there full-time are going to do?” she asks, showing a video Mamdani released revealing his plans for the rich.

“When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we’re taxing the rich. I’m thrilled to announce we’ve secured a pied-a-terre tax, the first in New York’s history. This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full-time in the city,” Mamdani explained in a promotional video.


And they’re not happy — especially billionaire Ken Griffin.

Mamdani “doxxed” the CEO of Citadel in his video, pointing out the location of his apartment.

“I don’t think this should come as a shock to anyone. He wasn’t very happy about being name-checked in this little, you know, ad. And so, Ken Griffin now is pushing back after Mamdani featured ... his $238 million penthouse in the tax-the-rich video,” Gonzales explains, pointing out that in a letter to Citadel’s employees, the COO subtly hinted at a possible re-evaluation of its New York City investment.

“Because you see, as the story goes, he was planning on investing $6 billion into a development project. And now he’s like, ‘You know what? I don’t know if I want to do that. I don’t know if I want to continue investing my money in a city that just wants to tax me into oblivion,’” she continues.

“Who could have possibly predicted that that would be the final result of Zohran Mamdani just trying to get the rich to pay for all of his free stuff, which as we know isn’t even free? So, things are not going well on that front,” she adds.

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Who 'Contributes' to New York City?

New York City's socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, posed on Manhattan's Central Park South on Wednesday and gleefully announced his plan to tax pied-à-terres worth over $5 million.

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Biden Lobbied To Grant Clemency to Culprit Who Leaked Tax Returns of the Wealthy to Left-Wing News Outlet

President Joe Biden is facing pressure to commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the former IRS consultant who leaked the tax returns of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and other wealthy individuals.

Left-wing groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires are leading the charge. The groups organized a December letter to Biden from four tax law professors—the University of Michigan's Reuven Avi-Yonah, the University of Missouri's David Gamage, Indiana University's Goldburn Maynard, and Emory University's Alex Zhang—arguing that Littlejohn acted in the public interest when he illegally leaked the returns to ProPublica. 

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