'I Have Little Talent But Lots of Passion': New Mamdani Appointee Called for Defunding Police in Since-Deleted Posts on X

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D.) new director of appointments—who says she has "little talent but lots of passion"—supported the Defund the Police movement on an X account she has since deleted, a Washington Free Beacon review of thousands of scrubbed posts found.

Stephanie Silkowski, whom the mayor introduced last week as his director of the Mayor's Office of Appointments, signed an open letter in 2020—titled, "Dear Speaker Johnson and Members of the New York City Council: #DefundTheNYPD—calling...