Far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday stood by embattled silver-spoon socialist Gustavo Gordillo — even as the radical honcho’s bogus working-class claims continued to unravel.Hizzoner scoffed at Gustavo’s critics such as prominent city civil-rights leader Kevin McCall and dug his heels in over the dodgy, 38-year-old, rich-kid, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
“The ‘D’ in DSA stands for Democratic, and I leave it to the organization and its own voting of who it is electing as its leaders,” Mamdani said when asked by The Post whether his Yale University-grad comrade should resign after misleading the media over his $1.5 million home and his union membership.
“And I think what we’ve seen with Gustavo, and what we’ve seen to any others who are in the fight for a fairer, more affordable New York, is that their focus is on making this a city that everyone can belong to,” the mayor said after an unrelated New York City Housing Court announcement.
“And I welcome anyone who’s committed to that.”
Mamdani, asked outright if he condemns lying, replied, “Thank you very much.”
In a recent New York Times profile, the outlet asked Gordillo about his splashy $1.5 million home in heavily gentrified Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and whether it conflicts with his socialist ethos against private property ownership and landlords.
He responded by claiming to be renting an apartment in nearby Crown Heights.
But Gordillo’s own father, also named Gustavo, confirmed to The Post that his son does indeed live in the nearly 2,000-square-foot, two-story row home on a leafy block, which the elder Gordillo purchased through a limited liability corporation in 2019 for $935,000, property records show. The home is now worth around $1.5 million.
When the Times reached out to Gordillo to clarify his residency discrepancy, he ceased communication with the reporter. Calls to him by The Post were not returned.
Gordillo, who graduated from the Yale School of Art with a MFA degree in sculpture, also frequently touts himself as a blue-collar union electrician — even paying tribute to his allegedly chosen trade in his X handle — @UnionGordillo.
But since 2024, he stopped claiming to be affiliated with the IBEW Local 3 and instead started referring to himself as a nonspecific union worker.
Reports show he joined the IBEW sometime over the past few years, but there are no records to indicate that he completed its seven-year journeyman process.
He told the Times earlier this year that he was no longer an electrician.
But in addition to Daddy, Gustavo also now has his man-of-the-people post to fall back on. He and his party co-chair convinced DSA leaders last month to pay them an annual salary of $95,000 a pop — plus benefits. --->READ MORE HERE
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