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CaptainPsyko posted:I mean, every 20 vote margin absentee reversal is shocking, I guess, but absentee ballots breaking hard for Katz definitely is not why it’s shocking. Caban’s campaign surged late to begin with, and then you have the demographics of just who votes absentee in a New York primary election (at all, and especially...) in June. yeah, I'm not convinced there's fraud at play here either (unfortunately). Just saying that that's a really lovely and laughable excuse to turn on Caban, and one that shows you don't actually care about anything she ran on and would probably have found a different reason to turn on her shortly after the election had her lead stayed intact
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xpostingloquacius posted:Has the thread covered Peter Daou joining the campaign of someone primarying Jerry Nadler awww poo poo Daou's made quite the faceturn since his Hillaryman days but this is not good news, lotta waffling bullshit in his assessment there also lmao I actually just noticed you clipped this fact out of the Daily News article so... welp here's confirmation.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Daou's made quite the faceturn since his Hillaryman days but this is not good news, lotta waffling bullshit in his assessment there
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CaptainPsyko posted:I mean, every 20 vote margin absentee reversal is shocking, I guess, but absentee ballots breaking hard for Katz definitely is not why it’s shocking. Caban’s campaign surged late to begin with, and then you have the demographics of just who votes absentee in a New York primary election (at all, and especially...) in June.
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yet another example of our clout-chasing state and local media doing "just the facts" reporting on blatantly obvious cuomo corruption. you will hear nothing about this come tomorrow who was that goon that got banned for suggesting that the media needs to be culled in order for them to actually do their jobs? because when it comes to New York media i'm down for it
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always remember, cuomo does not control the MTA in any way, shape, or form the subways have run a hell of a lot smoother over the past couple of years under Byford's direction, so expect that to reverse!
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Can't say I'm sorry my next overseas flight won't involve me using NYC transit.
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if anyone is or knows a qualified person in the city seeking employment as a federal house primary campaign's finance director, i've been asked to put out feelers PM me here or email stumanchu at gee, male!
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a couple of updates on the upcoming primary to replace Jose Serrano Sr. in his South Bronx congressional district. as of Friday, the two major candidates that have already declared to replace him are Assemblyman Michael Blake (a corporate Democrat who's more concerned with how he can promote his profile than with doing his job as a representative) and Councilmember/former State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. (a conservative Democrat in every way, along with a long and well-documented history of homophobia that hasn't stopped to this day). on Friday, one of the rumored candidates, State Senator Gustavo Rivera, wrote an op-ed/announcement that he will not be running for the seat. tl;dr: his priority is getting more stuff passed in the Legislature, probably chief among them the New York Health Act, which he is the primary sponsor of in the Senate today, Councilmember Ritchie Torres officially declared he was running, although it was obvious that he's been wanting to run for months https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1150714820590800897 he's easily the best of the three major candidates (there are others who have declared but they're irrelevant). his relationship with the Bronx machine is complicated- it's somewhere between the full-throated support that Diaz Sr. and Blake have and the outright antipathy that Rivera gets. comparing his stances today to his original platform when he first ran for Council in 2013 is striking, but he's still a fairly reliably progressive voice there, and he's a very stark contrast to much of the Bronx delegation that's moderate-to-conservative. he's also the only out gay elected official from there in a borough that regularly boosts the voices of homophobes i would have preferred Rivera easily, but he would have made it easier for Blake or Diaz Sr. to win, so it's not the worst thing in the world
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cuomo threatened to replace con edison today good for a lol
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yeah, put con ed under Gov. Trump Wannabe's control, that will solve everything. somewhat related because every media report on this has followed the same script as every other time Cuomo has made dumbass statements left unchallenged: if Johnson ends up winning the mayor's race in 2021 it'll be fun to see where journos will break in terms of loyalty
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Real hurthling! posted:cuomo threatened to replace con edison today remember when the state officially announced it was kicking out spectrum and then literally never took any actual action against spectrum
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They just announced they gave spectrum another year to make good so that's progress I guess
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I got some kind of ~$70 credit as part of that, too
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idk who comes off as lamer for this image/byline combo: Scott Stringer or City & State i like Stringer, he's ahead of the curve when it comes to endorsing non-establishment candidates and he's used his office for reasonably good things (like a study saying that the city can create 50,000 units of housing just from abandoned city-owned property). but he's barely visible, nobody gives a poo poo about the office of comptroller, and he's a snooze as a personality
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I’m one of the 11 or 12 people who follow Stringer on Facebook and 95% of what he posts are compelling policy ideas I agree with
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theflyingexecutive posted:I’m one of the 11 or 12 people who follow Stringer on Facebook and 95% of what he posts are compelling policy ideas I agree with
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Policy ideas are great. Does he genuinely stand behind them, and can he drive them through City Hall and the State?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Policy ideas are great. Does he genuinely stand behind them, and can he drive them through City Hall and the State? does he stand by them? guess we'll have to find out. it does seem like he's ahead of the curve when it comes to these issues than most in elected government, so i'm leaning yes the state? lol. we're still restrained by early 20th century measures to curb the power of Tammany Hall even though they've long outlived their usefulness. unless we get a governor that isn't Cuomo or a Republican, there's no chance that changes. otherwise, given that Stringer has the charisma of a wet towel, the scummy media isn't going to take his side speaking of which, here's yet another case of the media just reporting the facts on Cuomo. sure, those facts say "he's never seen big-donor money he didn't like," but they're not gonna report on it after this i feel like i should make a weekly post ITT that's a compilation of stories about the New York political media letting Cuomo get away with corrupt and control freak poo poo. if i posted every time something like that happens, it'd just be noise
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hey, are there any leftist things going on outside of New York City? you know, like in Buffalo and Rochester? Finger Lakes?
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Victory Position posted:hey, are there any leftist things going on outside of New York City? you know, like in Buffalo and Rochester? Finger Lakes?
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get that OUT of my face posted:probably, but i have no idea about any groups out there. i do know that Buffalo has a large refugee population, so i imagine there are groups working with them at this time so the dumb answer is to say "go look at Facebook" then
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Victory Position posted:hey, are there any leftist things going on outside of New York City? you know, like in Buffalo and Rochester? Finger Lakes? If you don't have a problem with DSA, there's upstate chapters https://www.dsausa.org/chapters/#ny I am not sure how good they are, since I'm more likely to go to NJ than upstate, Binghamton seems to be the one I hear the most about through very vague osmosis. I do know most of the upstate chapters did not endorse Nixon.
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Tulip posted:I do know most of the upstate chapters did not endorse Nixon. downstate, Queens's county committee drive seems to have hit a big brick wall. given what worked in Brooklyn, the only way to make headway is to get a new county party leader who's willing to keep the door ajar so that the trickle can become a flood. so, uh, good luck with that!
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the capitol region dsa is pretty good, even if like 90% of our posting by volume is trolling troy city councillors about sanctuary city stuff
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probably unpopular opinion about Caban: she should drop her legal challenge and prep for city council in 2021. Daniel Dromm's seat, along with many others, will be vacated due to term limits, and given her name recognition and her not-white maleness (although she is LGBTQ like Dromm), she'll have a leg up already also expect a lot more collaboration between the WFP and DSA in the years to come. Caban's campaign is probably the start of greater teamwork between the two groups, and i've been thinking that both of them should be on the same page for a couple of years
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Any guesses as to what this might be about? https://twitter.com/CBS6Albany/status/1157676917061017600
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gonna assume something related to sports gambling i've been meaning to post this for a while because it's a landmark article: something that actually pushes back against the cuomo narrative instead of "just the facts" nonsense i'm not going to post the link to the google doc because i'm not sure if i'm at liberty to do so, but there are going to be three candidate forums for the Brooklyn DSA electoral group. some of the races have multiple candidates running for them vying for an endorsement:
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Boris is really charismatic and hardworking in my experience with him, so that's pretty great.
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You know, I don't remember if this was brought up here, but a watered-down Sanctuary City-like resolution was passed by Troy City Council a few weeks ago, only to be quickly vetoed by the mayor. The Council President and another member, who had opposed the resolution, decided this wasn't enough, so they attempted to push for a change to the city charter that would bar future councils from passing any kind of law of this nature. After holding public hearings without sufficient prior notice in the most conservative areas of the city, they brought it to a vote, and it was voted down, obviously. They're spinning this whole process to accuse Democrats of not wanting to allow the people to vote on it. Keeping in mind that the Council President had to repeatedly admit that she formulated the charter amendment in a certain way because otherwise there is no mechanism for a referendum in the City of Troy - maybe that was intentional! Either way, I'm going to guess that she's desperate to find ways to distract the electorate from her Jan 1st DUI arrest as she heads over for reelection this November. Of course our piece of poo poo Republican County Executive is all in with her, and he and his County Clerk said they would fight the new law requiring the DMV to provide driver's licenses without checking immigration status.
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the other thing is that the DSA endorsement questionnaire is much, much bigger and goes over a lot. last year it fit into three or four printed pages. this year it takes up 18 pages on Google Docs and goes over a lot of topicsAbsurd Alhazred posted:You know, I don't remember if this was brought up here, but a watered-down Sanctuary City-like resolution was passed by Troy City Council a few weeks ago, only to be quickly vetoed by the mayor. The Council President and another member, who had opposed the resolution, decided this wasn't enough, so they attempted to push for a change to the city charter that would bar future councils from passing any kind of law of this nature. After holding public hearings without sufficient prior notice in the most conservative areas of the city, they brought it to a vote, and it was voted down, obviously. They're spinning this whole process to accuse Democrats of not wanting to allow the people to vote on it. Keeping in mind that the Council President had to repeatedly admit that she formulated the charter amendment in a certain way because otherwise there is no mechanism for a referendum in the City of Troy - maybe that was intentional! Either way, I'm going to guess that she's desperate to find ways to distract the electorate from her Jan 1st DUI arrest as she heads over for reelection this November. Of course our piece of poo poo Republican County Executive is all in with her, and he and his County Clerk said they would fight the new law requiring the DMV to provide driver's licenses without checking immigration status.
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caban lost but the coalition that helped her get this far is going to target other assemblymembers and members of congress next year. a few Western Queens AMs, Maloney, and Engel are confirmed targets. tonight at Brooklyn DSA electoral, we'll be interviewing two candidates trying to do the same to two Brooklyn AMs (Joe Lentol and Erik Dilan), as well as somebody running for a Senate seat widely speculated to be vacated by Velmanette Montgomery, who's been there since the '80s. so stay tuned, friends
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Maloney (who is my rep) will be an interesting one, since that's basically the entire east side of Manhattan
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So I work maintenance in an apartment building and management has been taking almost non stop about how these new laws "are going to turn everything into slums" and "they're disincentiving up keep" it makes me want to barf every time I hear it and just shows we're not going to be able to solve the housing problem under liberalism
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Maloney (who is my rep) will be an interesting one, since that's basically the entire east side of Manhattan Nadler has a couple of challengers, if you look through my recent posts i talked about my experience with a staffer for the most prominent one (it was bad)
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get that OUT of my face posted:her main challenger is a former State Senate staffer. her last name is Vladimer, i think? as long as she's not a transparent grifter like Suraj Patel i'm sure she'll do better, if not win. i can't speak for my mom, but my dad is not opposed to the idea of voting against Maloney Erica Vladimir, who previously worked as a policy analyst for...wait for it...the IDC. Blech.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Erica Vladimir, who previously worked as a policy analyst for...wait for it...the IDC. Blech. that being said, that's not a good track record
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get that OUT of my face posted:
the less prominent one (Frankel) spent some time with the DSA in the last few weeks and ended up declining their endorsement process because they're not a fan of the state of Israel.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:the less prominent one (Frankel) spent some time with the DSA in the last few weeks and ended up declining their endorsement process because they're not a fan of the state of Israel. speaking of which, i didn't go to the Brooklyn endorsement meeting last night. for AD50 i'm leaning towards the woman that came over last night. as much as some people don't want to admit, you can't really overlook the Satmars if you want to win, and she has some ins there
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