Disappointed to read this @ Sean Maloney

[cilla4progress]

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/house-election-results-new-york-vote-show-ego-prevailed-party-rcna57328

Snip:

The New York establishment is beating up on AOC. It should be looking in the mirror.
New York Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for their setbacks in the U.S. House.

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On a night of many disappointments, the party’s most egregious own goal was the one scored for Republicans by no one less than the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman himself, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. Maloney, whose DCCC role is to elect as many Democrats to the House as possible, not only presided over the loss of four previously Democratic New York districts, but failed to win his own race after putting his ego above the warnings of party officials and activists.

Maloney isn’t the only one to blame for Democrats’ Big Apple bludgeoning, however. The Democratic legislators who control the statehouse fumbled the ball when they were given the task of drawing up new congressional districts to reflect the results of the 2020 census. Their new congressional maps failed to satisfy the courts that they didn’t violate the state constitution’s bar on partisan gerrymandering, leading to the appointment of a nonpartisan election expert as a special master to draw new maps that cut deeply into Democrats’ previously safe districts.

[TheFarseer]

1. Did he ask for her help?

I’d be shocked if he actually wanted her to campaign for him.

[In It to Win It]

3. Nope

[MontanaMama]

2. Wasn't gerrymandering the biggest issue

working against getting Democrats elected?

[emulatorloo]

4. +1

[TheFarseer]

7. I remember hearing

Some districts got scrambled up so he had to pick which one to run for. But instead of picking the district that would more logically be his, he tried to poach Mondaire Jones’s district. I forget the reason that was speculated, but I gather some people were pissed about that or he just didn’t connect with those voters or something.

[emulatorloo]

5. Article fails to mention GOP targeted Maloney specifically, and dumped tons of money into the race

To defeat him.

Maybe they did and I missed it.

Yes NY Democratic party screwed up. I believe the new Democratic Governor has said something about whipping them into shape.

[Celerity]

6. According to Democrats including Ocasio-Cortez, the party could have avoided competing on such

unpalatable ground simply by embracing 2021’s Ballot Proposal 1, which would have created an alternate set of guidelines for drawing this year’s maps. That proposal had strong support from progressive Democrats throughout the state, but none that I came across from state party leadership, who viewed the plan as another progressive advance that would alienate voters. AOC pointed out that conservative organizations across the state spent over $3 million to defeat the measure, while the Democratic Party did little — leaving the measure to fail 45% to 54%.

Ballot Proposal 1 included popular progressive proposals such as ending “prison gerrymandering” by counting incarcerated New Yorkers at their last place of residence instead of at their place of incarceration — since prisons are often located in more rural districts where Democratic votes from prisoners are diluted. In a statement, Jacobs deflected blame for the party’s struggles. “I’m not going to take responsibility for, or blame, if you will, for the losses we had here,” he wrote. “I think it’s more the Democratic brand in New York that had difficulty in some of these tough … districts.”

On a fundamental level, New York’s Democratic officials are locked in a deep and often nasty philosophical disagreement about what the party should be doing to promote Democratic candidates and values. As The Intercept’s Akela Lacey writes, Jacobs has no problem raising and spending money, including a $100,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee this year. But for progressives who often felt they were campaigning alone against Republican headwinds, the ability to clear checks is secondary to building a party infrastructure that can actually project power in key swing races.

The New York Democratic Party took devastating losses because of its failure to adapt to a changing political environment and the unwillingness of top leadership to hear criticism or incorporate feedback from progressive activists on the ground. If the party hopes to repair those problems and regain its competitiveness in future elections, they must completely restructure their ailing party machinery. To ignore this crisis means courting disaster in 2024.