Mamdani blasted for requiring 5 forms of ID to shovel snow while DSA opposes voter ID

Snowcialism has hit The Big Apple.

Lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani opposes requiring ID’s to vote — but mandates 
no less than five forms of identification in order to shovel snow.

The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to 
register as an emergency snow shoveler, an applicant must provide two 
small photos sized 1-1.5 square inches, two original forms of ID plus 
copies, and their social security card.

Mamdani called on New Yorkers to sign up to become emergency snow 
shovelers Saturday, telling them to show up to a local sanitation garage 
with the reams of required paperwork.

“For those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra 
cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your 
local sanitation garage… with your paperwork which is accessible online,” 
Hizzoner said at a presser Saturday.

Shovelers earn an hourly rate of $19.14 and the pay jumps to $28.71 an 
hour after the first 40 hours worked in a week, per the sanitation 
department’s website.

The mayor is a member of the NY-chapter of the Democratic Socialists of 
America, which vehemently opposes Voter ID law The SAVE Act, deeming it 
racist.

“Our candidates for office stand firm against racist voter ID laws and 
secret poll taxes like the ‘SAVE America Act,'” The DSA’s website stated.

Social media users icily mocked Mamdani over the apparent hypocrisy.

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“This is Jim SNOW 2.0,” Fox News host Jimmy Failla quipped on X.

“No joke. To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC….for the impending 
snowstorm, you need two types of identification. Can’t make this up,” X 
user Casey Cook posted.

“Mamdani’s snow shovellers must be ‘Eligible to work in the United 
States,'” an X user posted above a gif of Greta Thunberg mouthing “how 
dare you.”

Gotham can see as much as 24 inches of snow in a massive blizzard set to 
hit the East Coast on Sunday and Monday.

Wind gusts can hit as much as 60 miles per hour and one through three 
inches of snow is set to fall per hour as the storm rages.

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