Major anti-Mamdani super PAC's latest ads use misleading stock images

One of the most well-funded anti-Zohran Mamdani super PACs operating in this fall’s mayoral election recently dropped $250,000 on a set of attack ads that contain misleading stock imagery and curiously also compliment the Democratic front-runner, the Daily News has learned.

The ads, which started appearing last week on digital platforms like Instagram as image banners paid for by the New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25 PAC, feature photos purported to be of average city residents along with quotes attributed to them offering criticisms of Mamdani.

“He sounds nice. But he has zero experience,” a woman referred to as 55-year-old “Robinette” of Morris Park in the Bronx is quoted as saying in one of the ads, next to a photo of a Black woman.

However, the woman pictured next to the quote isn’t named Robinette. In fact, she’s a model named “Maricel A.,




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