GoKawiilDoorDash's $1.4M anti-Mamdani spending followed by $131.5M NYC wage settlement
DoorDash spent roughly $1.4 million during the 2025 New York mayoral race opposing Zohran Mamdani and backing Andrew Cuomo, including a $1 million donation to the anti-Mamdani super PAC Fix the City. Mamdani won and his administration this week announced a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash over underpayment of 264,000 delivery workers, the largest worker settlement in city history.
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The sequence highlights a case where a company's political spending against a candidate did not prevent that candidate, once in office, from pursuing enforcement action against it, according to advocacy critic Greg Coleridge, who frames such donations as investments meant to secure favorable treatment. Mamdani's own framing of the settlement as proof 'enforcement matters' suggests the outcome could be cited by supporters of stricter corporate campaign-finance rules as evidence that such spending doesn't guarantee protection from regulation.
- DoorDash spent about $1.4 million opposing Mamdani and supporting Cuomo in the 2025 NYC mayoral race.
- DoorDash agreed to a $131.5 million settlement with NYC over underpaying 264,000 delivery workers.
- The settlement is about 100 times larger than DoorDash's political spending against Mamdani.
Source: theintercept.com — Meghnad Bose, 2026-09-23
Published there as: “DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why”
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