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[BREAKING] Cynthia Nixon’s wife gets $200k city gig after ‘Sex and the City’ star’s Mamdani endorsement

The Mamdani patronage machine has hired the wife of left-handed actress Cynthia Nixon as an educator, earning $203,500 a year, The Post has learned.

Christine Marinoni works as chief of mass engagement in the Department of Education's Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) office, according to a well-placed DOE source.

The DOE source said this was Mamdani's reward to the former “Sex and the City” star after she endorsed him during the mayoral primary.

Nixon hosted a fundraiser for Mamdani in March 2025 and raised more than $200,000 for the upstart socialist mayor.

“I'm so excited to host a fundraiser for the incredible Zohran Mamdani whose clear message and ambitious plan for a more affordable New York is exactly what we need right now,” she posted on Instagram at the time alongside a photo of her and Mamdani together, smiling from ear to ear.

The hiring is already drawing strong comparisons to New York's most notorious political machine.

"It's painfully appropriate that inside the Tweed Courthouse, a DSA machine reminiscent of Tammany Hall is handing out taxpayer-funded jobs to the well-connected spouses of billionaire celebrities," said another source, a City Hall insider.

When reached for comment, Nixon denied that the DOE rehired his wife for political reasons and declined to speak further.

Marinoni could not be reached for comment.

Marinoni previously worked as a special assistant to the chancellor during the de Blasio administration and earned $131,708, according to public data.

Nixon, who ran for governor in 2018 and was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is a longtime left-wing firebrand.

“We have two different educational systems in our state: one that sends rich white kids to college and another that sends poor kids of color to prison,” she said during her unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign.

He has compared ICE to a terrorist organization and called for the agency's abolition.

Nixon met Marinoni through her work with the Alliance for Quality Education, a left-wing education group that opposes gifted and talented programs.

Marinoni was once the group's New York director and Nixon was its spokesman for 17 years.

Zakiyah Ansari, an AQE official who once praised cop killer Assata Shakur, called on former Mayor Eric Adams to dismantle G&T in elementary schools.

"We believe that every child is a gifted child, every child is a talented child, we have to have people so angry about taking away a program that affects a few people and be more upset about black and brown children who haven't had access to a great education," Ansari told NBC News in 2021.

Also back at the DOE is Sadye Campoamor, who began serving as the agency's chief of external affairs in March, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Campoamor faced controversy the last time he worked for the DOE in 2019, when he allegedly sent an email from his work account encouraging DOE employees to attend a political rally for former New York City Schools Chief Richard Carranza.

"Christine is a long-time public servant, community organizer, and education advocate—precisely the leadership experience and commitment our public schools need...Sadye is also a long-time public servant with invaluable knowledge of our city's education system," a DOE spokesperson told The Post in a statement.

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