Mamdani guru under fire for alleged threat in Graham Platner sex scandal is prolific operative in lefty campaigns
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign guru — now facing heat for allegedly threatening a whistleblowing ex-staffer to US Senate hopeful Graham Platner — has his hands in a series of other congressional bids by far-left candidates.Wunderkind Morris Katz was ripped for his alleged dirty tactics following a report in the Bangor Daily News Sunday that he tried to browbeat former Platner campaign staffer Genevieve McDonald into denying that the married oyster farmer sexted with multiple women.The sex scandal is the latest controversy to hit Democrat Platner’s bid to knock off GOP Sen.
Susan Collins and has tarnished the gleaming profile of Katz — who is involved with several local lefty candidates this election cycle.He’s an instrumental part of the populist campaign for Democratic Socialists of America member Claire Valdez, a Queens state assemblywoman vying for an open seat in New York’s 7th House District.Valdez has been endorsed by her DSA comrade Mamdani, whom 27-year-old Katz has been widely credited with helping catapult to City Hall.Valdez’s campaign declined to comment Monday when asked about Katz’s alleged threat in the Platner race.Mamdani also did not comment.Katz is said to be advising Mamdani-backed former City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is challenging incumbent Rep.
Dan Goldman from the left in the Democratic primary for the 10th House District.He was also hired by the campaign of state Assemblyman Micah Lasher, who is running in a crowded Democratic primary for the open 12th House District.Neither campaign returned requests for comment.Katz’s firm, Fight Agency, which he runs with other liberal political operatives, has also done campaign work for Nebraska independent candidate Dan Osborn, a mechanic running for US Senate.Katz is described on Fight Agency’s website as a political strategist who “hates status quo politics and loves long-shots.”“As comfortable in Philadelphia union halls as he is in auto shops in Nebraska, Morris i...