New pro-Mamdani PAC targets Black homeowners
A new independent expenditure group hopes to help Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani improve his margins with Black homeowners, a demographic he struggled with during the Democratic primary.
On Monday, the progressive advocacy group New York Communities for Change – one of Mamdani’s earliest endorsers – launched a new independent expenditure committee called Livable Future PAC. It’s led by Pete Sikora, who also serves as NYCC’s climate and inequality campaigns director. Sikora told City & State the PAC aims to raise and spend about $50,000, which will fund at least two full-time staffers focused on messaging and canvassing.
Mamdani’s campaign already has an army of volunteer canvassers. During the primary, more than 30,000 canvassers and phonebankers knocked on New Yorkers’ doors 1.6 million times. So why the need for a separate PAC?
As an independent expenditure committee, Livable Future PAC can’t legally coordinate with the Mamdani campaign, so there’s a potential for the PAC to duplicate the campaign’s canvassing work. However, Sikora believes that Mamdani’s volunteer operation tends to be concentrated in neighborhoods where the democratic socialist already has a good deal of support, creating a gap that the PAC can fill in neighborhoods that are less friendly to Mamdani.
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