Governor still won't say if City Hall's taxpayer-funded 'influencer army' must disclose its ties.

…(cont) By October 1st, the New York Post's opinion page went back inside the building and reported what City Hall's own staff call the plan among themselves: a troll-farm offensive. Not a label applied from outside. The description came from the aides running it.

The same day, the Washington Examiner ran its own tally: roughly two hundred influencers, organized through Democratic Socialists of America Signal chats, coordinated by Mamdani's closest advisers, the bullpen, to build support for taxing the rich. Two hundred is the number already attached to this operation. What sits on top of it now is a new word: army.

Here is the reconciliation, hon. An outreach effort became a mass-engagement office became a troll-farm offensive became an army, and at every turn of that ledger the line that should have moved — does this count as lobbying, does it get disclosed, does anyone have to say where the money goes — sits exactly where Hochul left it on September 8th. That answer is the only one on the books. The receipts don't show a follow-up question since, and they don't show a different answer either.

So the running total stands: one governor's office, one disclosure question, and no new answer on the record. The gap isn't in the headcount — two hundred was the count then, two hundred is the count now. It's in the column that was supposed to sit next to it, the one marked who has to tell the public who's paying whom. In the file, it still reads blank.