Exclusive | Privileged DSA leader who lives in parents $1.5M house got fired for not showing up to electrician gig then convinced socialist comrades to pay him $95K

The top DSA leader whose parents set him up in cushy Brooklyn digs short-circuited as a union electrician — and then convinced his socialist party comrades to pay him a near-six-figure salary, The Post has learned.Former Yale University liberal arts student Gustavo Gordillo, 38, was fired from his apprenticeship program in March after ghosting his employer for months, meaning he never made it as a fully-credentialed electrician, the IBEW Local 3 union confirmed Wednesday.“After learning of Mr.Gordillo’s prolonged absence from and failure to participate in required work and classes, the trustees of the Joint Apprentice Training Committee terminated Mr.

Gordillo from the program,” the IBEW said in a statement.A source close to the union said “he didn’t have a strong work record to begin with” and took the job “just for show,” while hogging “a slot from someone who probably really needed the opportunity.”But Gordillo failed to mention that he’d gotten canned when sources said he made an emotional appeal to Democratic Socialists of America rank-and-file for full-time pay and benefits last month.“Both of them [Gordillo and his co-chair Grace Mausser] went into detail on their day jobs on how since [Mayor] Zohran [Mamdani] won they were getting so much national attention,” one attendee of the July Queens DSA meeting recalled.He even regalled the audience with stories about the struggles of him having to do media interviews, using an ear piece on construction job sites, telling the crowd it was too “distracting,” the source said.The measure to pay Gordillo and Mausser each $95,000 a year with benefits ended up passing.“This appeal to a struggle that he is facing doesn’t seem real at all.It’s a lie,” the source said — in light of The Post’s Wednesday front-page story detailing how Gordillo’s wealthy parents bought him a row home in Bedford-Stuyvesant.“It just seems like a ploy.”Neither Gordillo nor the city’s DSA chapter...