Posted on 07/24/2020 6:08:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
The socialists are coming — to the state Assembly.
A half-dozen insurgent candidates in Brooklyn and Queens — some backed by the Democratic Socialists of America — toppled veteran incumbents in Democratic primary races, including close allies of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx).
With Heastie’s backing, the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee poured more than $400,000 combined to prop up 46-year veteran Joe Lentol, Felix Ortiz and Walter Mosley in Brooklyn and Aravella Simotas, Michael Den Dekker and Michael Miller in Queens.
They all lost.
Insurgent Zohran Mamdani, who defeated four-term incumbent Simotas in the 36th Assembly District covering Astoria, said in a tweet: “Socialism won.”
He was endorsed by the DSA.
The DACC donated $125,000 to Simotas’ re-election campaign.
But upstart Emily Gallagher delivered the biggest blow — upsetting 46-year veteran incumbent Joe Lentol in the 50th Assembly District that encompasses Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Lentol is the third-longest-serving Assembly member in history and chaired the codes committee that crafts criminal justice legislation, including controversial bail reform.
Her victory was even more impressive because she did not have the official backing of the DSA or the left-leaning Working Families Party, which endorsed Lentol. The DACC also pumped more than $100,000 into Lentol’s re-election bid.
“I’m ready to get to work,” said Gallagher.
She rapped Lentol for taking donations from law enforcement unions and real estate interests and more easily connected with younger voters’ concerns about housing, job security and mass transit.
Gallagher said she would push to raise income taxes on the “top one percent” to preserve services, adding, “We need the revenue to survive.”
Also in Brooklyn, Phara Souffrant Forrest, a field nurse, knocked off Mosley in the 57th Assembly District that takes in Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and parts of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Ugh. To arms.
They will soon learn that people will leave in droves and they will be stuck holding their own hands and no one to rule over.
I fail to see how this changes anything.. Radical commies replacing radical commies...
Because they weren’t doing it right before.
After 16, yes SIXTEEN, terms in office, U.S. Rep. Engel was defeated in the primary by school principal Jamaal Bowman.
If you’re a socialist, you need to move to NYC.
Communists are never satisfied until they have complete control.
‘Democratic’ socialist is a myth and CONTRADICTION.
There is no such thing as “democratic” in socialism.
Show the Country what you’re really like just before the Election
Lovely.../s
When your enemies are infighting just stand back and hand out knives...
New York assembly is already full up with democratic socialists how is anything going to change.
When in stuck in a hole keep digging.
Socialists ? The Demonrats were captured by Socialists in 1896. These are anti-American ultra-Stalinazis and domestic terrorist anarchists pledged to the destruction of what’s left of America.
NY is fing dead if the GOP can’t take back the State Senate this year. If we don’t they’ll gerrymander it bad, not to mention the US House delegation.
At lot of GOP Senators decided to retire.
It’ll be a miracle, as I expect the Demonrats will cheat like hell. Still counting votes from last month to make sure they lock in their “preferred” nominees. They want the old Stalinist left replaced with new and shiny ultra-Stalinazi “Woke” BurnLootMurder lunatics that will make Stalinist Sandy look like Phyllis Schlafly.
I consider it unlikely that “they” wanted their incumbents to lose. This is like Dave Brat beating Eric Cantor to them. The far left in the state hates Cumomo.
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