New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest appointee is making waves for all the wrong reasons.
The Daily Caller reported that Cea Weaver, the newly tapped tenant advocate, and Catherine Almonte Da Costa, briefly the director of appointments, have both come under fire for resurfaced social media posts that raise serious questions about their judgment and the vetting process in Mamdani’s administration.
Weaver, 37, was appointed to champion renters’ rights, but her past online rants have painted a very different picture.
Back in 2019, Weaver declared, “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” a statement that’s hard to square with any balanced view of property rights.
She didn’t stop there—posts from 2018 labeled homeownership as “racist” and called for policies to “impoverish” certain middle-class groups, which sounds less like advocacy and more like a personal vendetta.
While Weaver has expressed regret for these remarks to the New York Times, one has to wonder if apologies can erase years of divisive rhetoric.
Fast forward to Wednesday, when Weaver was photographed in an emotional state outside her apartment, ducking back inside when pressed about her family’s pricey Nashville property worth $1.6 million.
The irony isn’t lost on anyone—how does a tenant advocate reconcile such personal wealth with calls to seize property?
Yet, Mayor Mamdani stands firm, praising Weaver’s track record on tenant issues while admitting his team knew of her past posts during vetting.
Meanwhile, Catherine Almonte Da Costa’s story is even shorter and just as troubling, resigning after just one day as director of appointments due to her own inflammatory social media history.
Her posts, including derogatory comments about specific communities and broad statements like, “It’s important that white people feel defeated,” crossed lines that no public official should approach.
Mamdani called her words “reprehensible” and accepted her resignation, while Da Costa expressed remorse for the harm caused.
The real kicker here is the vetting—or lack thereof—since a Mamdani spokesperson admitted Da Costa’s posts “slipped through the cracks,” prompting the hire of an outside firm to assist.
With Weaver’s posts already known to the team, as confirmed by a spokeswoman, one can’t help but ask if Mamdani’s “radical” persona, complete with his own fiery online history, sets the tone for such oversights.
These aren’t just personal missteps; they point to a systemic issue in an administration that seems more focused on ideology than accountability, leaving taxpayers to wonder who’s really being served.
