Posted on 07/04/2021 7:05:39 PM PDT by Libloather
New York City’s notoriously incompetent election officials have not finished tabulating the votes in the June 22 Democratic primary, with its novel ranked-choice-voting system. But the first choices of voters - minus some 124,000 absentees - nevertheless reveal some important things about the differences between different segments of the Democratic coalition in America’s largest city.
These initial results were a clear repudiation of the term-limited left-wing Mayor Bill de Blasio. Coming in first was Brooklyn borough president and former NYPD cop Eric Adams with 31.7 percent, well ahead of top de Blasio aide Maya Wiley, with 22.2 percent. Third was Kathryn Garcia, de Blasio’s technocratic sanitation commissioner, with 19.5 percent.
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Affluent gentry liberals, who jostle for places in private schools and in whose doorman-building neighborhoods violent crime is still rare, had more abstract concerns. They’re wary about the violent crime upsurge elsewhere in the city but, just as they like being masked even after being vaccinated, don’t like to be noisy about it.
Their first-choice candidate, endorsed by The New York Times, was Kathryn Garcia, a native of Brooklyn’s affluent Park Slope and an experienced administrator who quietly opposed the police. She carried Manhattan from Tribeca to Morningside Heights, plus the Brooklyn Heights-Prospect Park district in Brooklyn, Forest Hills in Queens and far-distant southern Staten Island.
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“Multiple well-made styles almost adjacent.”
I don’t know where that might be, so I’ll just presume it’s a case of de gustibus non disputandum est.
What a hoot; the self righteous leftists do not want to come face to face with consequences of their ideas.
Build every homeless shelter and section 8 housing development in their neighborhoods — and build section 8 housing across the street from Nancy Pelosi’s place — oh and just for grins and giggles, pass laws that mandate that all homeless shelters and low income housing is to be built in these neighborhoods first to set an example for the rest of us.
After all, leaders should lead by example and the best ones do so.
Damn skippy
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