Posted on 07/18/2018 9:47:26 PM PDT by TBP
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is urging voters in the general election to vote for Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) instead of Democratic nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who upset him in the party primary.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise primary victory over Rep. Joe Crowley seems likely to hurt Congress, America and the Democratic Party. It doesn’t have to," Lieberman wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.
ADVERTISEMENT "Because the policies Ms. Ocasio-Cortez advocates are so far from the mainstream, her election in November would make it harder for Congress to stop fighting and start fixing problems."
Lieberman noted that Crowley's name will still be on the ballot as the nominee of the Working Families Party.
“Thanks to a small percentage of primary votes, all of the people of New York’s 14th Congressional District stand to lose a very effective representative in Washington,” Lieberman wrote. “Fortunately, Joe Crowley and the voters in his district can prevent this damage.”
Ocasio-Cortez defeated Crowley by 15 percentage points in the June 28 Democratic primary.
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Lieberman knows a thing or two about situations like this one.
He lost the primary so how can he run? Maybe as an Independent?
Go for it!
At the least, it will anger the Bernie wing and more divide the Democrat party.
Does the Republican have any chance of winning this race?
New York has eight ballot qualified parties, and the “minor” parties have to make their nominations before the primary.
And New York has “fusion”, which allows candidates to run on more than one line. Governor Cuomo, for example, is the candidate of the Women’s Equality Party as well as running in the Democrat primary. His challenger in the primary, Cynthia Nixon, also has the nomination of the Working Families Party. Governor Cuomo’s Republican opponent, Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, is also the nominee of the Conservative party (and I think at least one other party.)
Before the primary, the Working Families Party endorsed Rep. Crowley over Ocasio-Cortez.
The only way to get off the ballot would be to die, move out of state (or at least change your legal residence), or take a nomination for another office (usually a judicial office), which Crowley has said he regards as election fraud.
So the WFP is stuck with him in November, and he can run as actively or inactively as he wishes.
Minimal, especially since the Republican does NOT have Conservative endorsement. I believe they have their own candidate.
I was right. In addition to Ocasio-Cortez and Crowley, there is Anthony Pappas (R), a professor; Elizabeth Perri (Conservative), a marketing executive; and James Dillon (Reform), a retired investigator.
He won the primary to get on the Working Families Party line.
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This is reminiscent of Lisa Murkowski in 2010. She lost her primary bid during the Tea Party uprising but decided to run as a write in and won. Here’s hoping the candidate from the center of the New Democrat base loses the same way to a normal leftist.
That what was I wondering.
Idiots! This is a chance to pick up the seat.
Oh! So, the primary was a farce!
No, any party can nominate whoever they choose and the smaller parties in NY often nominate one of the major party candidates.
I love making fun of her...
This bleep is going down. She can go back to being a community organizer.
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