Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s whiz-kid spin physician – below hearth for allegedly threatening a whistleblowing ex-staffer to US Senate hopeful Graham Platner – overtly admitted to blasting out nude photographs of himself in a resurfaced weblog publish.
Morris Katz, the 27-year-old marketing campaign guru who helped catapult Mamdani to Gracie Mansion, made the weird confession whereas defending disgraced former California lefty Rep. Katie Hill in a November 2019 weblog publish after she stop Congress.
The brazenly bisexual ex-lawmaker resigned that month amid a storm of affair allegations involving a number of staffers – and proper after a trove of leaked nude photographs have been printed on-line.
“I’ve despatched nudes and I’ve acquired nudes,” Katz blithely admitted within the Medium publish titled “Katie Hill Resigned for Our Sins.”
“We have to attain a cultural understanding the place sexual photographs that have been consensually exchanged get deleted as soon as their relationship ends or both aspect now not consents,” he wrote.
“All people I do know is aware of somebody whose nudes have been circulated,” he continued. “It’s turn out to be an accepted a part of teenage (and evidently grownup) male tradition.”
The Washington Free Beacon was the primary to report on the weblog publish Tuesday as Katz confronted renewed scrutiny over his alleged involvement within the snowballing saga involving Platner, the Democrat working to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in Maine.
A Bangor Each day Information report Sunday alleged he tried to browbeat former Platner marketing campaign staffer Genevieve McDonald into denying claims that the married oyster farmer sexted with a number of girls after marrying his spouse in 2023.
The report alleges he pressured McDonald, the Platner marketing campaign’s former political director, in an effort to dam a Wall Avenue Journal report on the candidate’s alleged lewd messages.
“If the story goes in its present iteration, we’ll talk straight on the file, and by title, that Genevieve violated the private belief of Amy and Graham and shared specific falsehoods to sabotage the marketing campaign,” Katz advised McDonald by means of an middleman, the outlet reported.
After his alleged soiled political antics have been uncovered, Katz whined on-line that it was “nobody’s f—king enterprise” what occurred between Platner and his spouse, Amy, earlier than he began his run for workplace.
The political hotshot additionally fumed about “incompetent, opportunistic operatives” who “prioritize vengeance over decency.”
The sordid scandal and Katz’s brazen specific snap confession are the most recent controversies to hit Platner’s high-stakes bid to unseat Collins.
Katz and his agency, Flight Company, are additionally advising Mamdani-backed former Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander, state Assemblyman Micah Lasher and different lefty campaigns this election cycle, The Submit reported Monday.
His enterprise accomplice at Combat Company, Rebecca Katz, beforehand mentioned in an announcement: “Morris dealt with this case like a political skilled. It was all above board. He continues to be the most effective within the biz. The hysteria round him is manufactured by operatives whose finest days are behind them.”
