California’s Julie Su finds a new home in socialist New York City

Who knew that losing tens of billions of dollars to fraud could be such a resume booster?

As California’s secretary of labor from January 2019 to July 2021, Julie Su oversaw the Employment Development Department (EDD) during the coronavirus pandemic. And you know the story.

California’s EDD paid out upward of $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims. This unprecedented level of fraud made for memorable headlines. For example, in November 2020, CBS Los Angeles reported, “A Fresno girl who just celebrated her first birthday is collecting $167 per week in unemployment benefits after a claim was filed on her behalf stating that she was an unemployed actor.”

CalMatters also revealed in 2020 that “California may have paid up to $1 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims filed on behalf of prison and jail inmates.” This disturbing trend included hundreds of thousands of dollars in payouts to death row inmates, such as Scott Peterson, infamous for murdering his pregnant wife.

Despite this massive fraud and mismanagement, Julie Su failed upward. In July 2021, President Joe Biden appointed her to serve as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, a position she held until March 2023. After Labor Secretary Marty Walsh left his post, Su served as acting labor secretary for the remainder of Biden’s presidency.

However, not even Democrats in the U.S. Senate supported confirming her as the official labor secretary. In her capacity as acting labor secretary, Su mainly championed the interests of Big Labor, including advocating for tougher limits on independent contracting.

Now, Julie Su has reemerged with a new role in New York City. She has been appointed Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice under New York City’s Mayor-elect and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.

“Welcome to A New Era, Julie Su!” Mamdani declared on X (formerly Twitter) on December 19. “As former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Julie played a central role in fighting for workers, ensuring a just day’s pay for a hard day’s work, and saving the pensions of more than a million union workers and retirees. A lover of Queens, she’s joining us as NYC’s first-ever Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice.”

It’s almost too on the nose that Julie Su would go from overseeing the staggering theft of public funds in California to now being charged with imposing “economic justice” in New York City.

“I’m aware of the deputy mayor’s record, and I’m very excited to have her,” Mamdani told the press in response to questions about her selection, according to the New York Post. Of course he is. Unbothered by her poor management abilities, Mamdani is glad to have a union loyalist with the political savvy to keep advancing despite her past failures.

What happens to New York City in the coming years is, of course, the choice of New Yorkers. As H. L. Mencken famously said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

It will be quite the spectacle to see how much damage Su and Mamdani can do in the name of economic justice. The only bright spot? She’ll be across the country, not back here in California helping to ruin our state again.
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/12/23/californias-julie-su-finds-a-new-home-in-socialist-new-york-city/

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