Whoever succeeds Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the state Assembly seat representing the People’s Republic of Astoria might be even more left than he is.
The three women lining up for the job are all members of the Democratic Socialists of America and angling to get the party’s endorsement — which has proven a powerful force in delivering a win in the Big Apple.
Meherunnisa “Mary” Jobaida, a first-generation Bangladeshi American, has a criminal justice platform at the extreme end with the DSA’s radical agenda that includes “decriminalizing all forms of poverty.”
“Countless residents . . . are punished simply for trying to survive,” she claimed in her platform, which pushes to do away with arrests for things like fare evasion, unlicensed street vending and food theft…