New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Saturday rejected Elon Musk’s argument that his appointment to head up the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is inexperienced.
“Experience does matter, which is why I appointed the person who spent more than 30 years at EMS. You know, the workforce that addresses at least 70% of all calls coming into FDNY?” Mamdani, a Democrat, wrote in a post on the social platform X.
His comment was in response to Musk’s earlier post alleging that people would “die” due to the appointment of Lillian Bonsignore, a veteran Emergency Medical Services leader.
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“People will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake,” the tech billionaire and former White House adviser wrote in a post on X, which he controls…