After six weeks Carolyn Maloney declared winner

[still_one]

"After six weeks of delays, the New York City Board of Elections confirmed results in a pair of congressional races on Tuesday evening, delivering victories to a longtime Democratic incumbent and a young city lawmaker who could be a trailblazer for gay and African-American rights.

In the South Bronx, Ritchie Torres, a 32-year-old New York City councilman, won a 12-way Democratic primary for a soon-to-be-open House seat, continuing a dramatic remaking of the New York congressional delegation.

Just to the south, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, 74, narrowly brushed back a primary challenge from Suraj Patel, 36. The longtime incumbent just managed to sidestep a wave of youthful progressivism that has tilted New York’s congressional delegation to the left."


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/nyregion/maloney-torres-ny-congressional-races.html

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1. In my congressional district, there was a "progressive" challenger to my progressive representative,

Bill Pascrell (D-NJ9)

Her efforts were spurious. She demanded that he resign for accepting donations from police unions.* She attacked him for having the nerve for being 84 years of age and running for re-election. He was a fake progressive. He hasn't done anything for the District. And she only let up the day before the primary election because Pascrell was admitted to the hospital for emergency aortic bypass surgery. It's been a month since the election and she's still acting like the election's still on.

All she had to run on was Climate Change, which is big but it isn't total. No position on how to get federal money to help our third largest city in the state, Paterson, into true and permanent urban renewal. She focused on the white suburbs and had no interest on our part of the District, even with my invitation to do so.

I can respect a candidate who wants the Party to do better and has concrete ideas. What I can't respect is purification of the Party.


* Being fair, she has not objected to Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate, although she has noted that she isn't progressive. And she failed to note that while she demanded that Pascrell resign for accepting money from Police Benevolent Associations/Unions, she has been silent about Harris doing the same thing.

I only hope that this failed primary candidate either evolves or doesn't try to run for office again. It's over her head.

[still_one]

2. I think there has been more than enough examples that a purist, or all or nothing paradigm, usually

gets you no where