Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Beat Joe Crowley In the Primary, But He'll Get to Be on the November Ballot

[Shipwack]

Last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez–a 28-year-old community organizer who’s never held public office–beat her opponent, 20-year incumbent Joe Crowley, in the Democratic Congressional primary for New York’s 14th District seat. She did so by running on an ultra-progressive platform of human and civil rights, and by engaging potential voters often ignored by mainstream politics. She’s so popular with voters that she won as a write-in third-party candidate in another primary in another district, where she wasn’t even running. (She immediately and graciously declined that nomination.)

And yet Ocasio-Cortez won’t be the only Democrat on that 14th District ballot in November. Through a weird loophole meant to favor third-party candidates, Crowley will remain on the ballot. As the New York Times explains, if a major-party candidate earns the endorsement of a third-party group–labor union and activism groups like the Women’s Equality Party or the Working Families Party–but they fail to win the major-party primary, they can run as a member of that other group, if they so choose. Crowley did earn the endorsement of the Working Families Party, but here’s the messed up part: immediately following his loss in the primary, the group asked him to vacate the line. And he refused.

Full article at https://www.themarysue.com/ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-bs/

[RandySF]

1. From Roll Call

A Crowley campaign aide told Roll Call on Thursday that the only ways to remove one’s name from the general election ballot are if the candidate dies, moves out of the state, is convicted of a crime or runs on the same party line for a different office.

The Working Families Party encouraged Crowley to run on its line for Montgomery County clerk in upstate New York, the aide said. Crowley does not intend to do so. A Democrat is also running for that office.

“Joe Crowley truly feels it is unethical to run for an office you don’t plan on serving in, in a place you do not live,” the aide said.



https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/crowley-says-he-wont-run-against-ocasio-cortez-in-november

[kcr]

3. Yep. Why should he have to run for an office he has no intention of serving?

Particularly since there's already a Dem on that ticket who one would assume actually wants to serve? He's right. It would be fraud. He isn't running. Ocasio-Cortez looks like a sore-winner pitching a fit demanding he be removed, and that's being generous.

[RandySF]

4. And another point

Crowley will do far less damage in a 77% Hillary district than in a red county Upstate.

[kcr]

5. I hate to see WFP being roped in with Our Revolution's schemes

They are a scourge.

[JackInGreen]

2. Shes going to be a point of party contention

And it will be interesting to watch everyone re-side up.

[NY_20th]

6. Joe is willing to endorse her and campaign for her.

I don't know who is giving her this advice to create division where there isn't any, but it's awful.

It seems that some want to be at war with the Democratic Party instead of the Republican Party and that's not helpful for 2018.

This nonsense has got to stop.

[JackInGreen]

7. Her?

Typo?

[NY_20th]

8. Ocasio Cortez is female.

[JackInGreen]

9. Am I failing to see

What she's done?

[NY_20th]

10. She's create a rift where one doesn't exist,

and is not doing herself any favors by doing so.

[regnaD kciN]

11. She's not the one refusing to take her name off the ballot...

[DURHAM D]

12. Did you miss the part about

how to get your name off the ballot? Perhaps you wish him dead.

[NY_20th]

14. If she wants to go this route,

she may very well lose to Joe Crowley in the General Election.

She needs to stop this nonsense and return his call.

[DURHAM D]

13. Yep.

Liked her at first. Now she is blowing it.

[NY_20th]

15. Same here.

She's either getting very bad advice or she is very naïve.

This move is not helping her at all.

[KitSileya]

17. Which makes it enven more incredible that some want her as House Speaker!

They want her to take the job from Nancy Pelosi - it boggles the mind. But that is typical of certain segments on either side of the political spectrum, who worship persons rather than think pragmatically to get stuff done.

[JackInGreen]

19. Ah, she ran at all

Her bad I guess

[NY_20th]

22. I had no problem with her running

I was very happy for her when she won the primary and thought she was a breath of fresh air and had an excellent opportunity to bring about unity.

She is getting very bad advice on this issue. Joe Crowley is well liked in his district and she's creating a divide that does not need to exist.

[Adrahil]

23. Bullshit.

I was fine with her running. I'm fine with her winning. I absolutely oppose her creating a rift where one does not exist.

[JI7]

16. She probably thinks he might beat her in the GE. she won in an election which had extremely low

turnout with a total of about 16 thousand votes. it was more than crowley but the total number of voters was like 27 thousand which was very low.

she is probably worried that when more people go to vote during the general election they will vote for the guy they have always voted for .

but many people vote for party so this isn't really something she needs to worry about.

[ucrdem]

18. Yes I don't see the harm. As long as she doesn't switch parties she should win.

If, however, she should go off the rails, there will be a sure-fire backup. Can't hurt.

[Lee-Lee]

20. Interesting- the GOP here in NC just pushed through a law making that illegal

The law here now says if you ran innanyboarties prinary and lostbyou cannot be on the ballot in that general election for the same office under another party or as an independent.

[KitSileya]

21. Interesting how she treated it as cute when it happened to her (with the reform party)

but it's calamitous when it happens to her opponent. She had a legal way of getting out of it - she was already running somewhere else. Crowley would have to run in another district to get out of it, and to do that when he has no intention of actually running... He isn't that dishonorable.