Before Crowley can get on with his ladder climbing, he needs to do something somewhat unfamiliar: run a campaign. For the first time since at least 2004, he will be forced to compete in a primary in the overwhelmingly Democratic district spanning northern Queens and a chunk of the eastern Bronx. Since Republican victories are all but impossible, the primary is where the action is — and where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 27-year-old former organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign, hopes to pull off her historic upset.
“What Joe Crowley represents is the floodgate between Wall Street and the United States government. He’s the clearing house, he takes millions and millions of dollars in funding from them,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Voice. “We see how he’s come to power locally — it’s totally undemocratic, machine-run, dynastic. He’s trying to spread this same model on the federal level.”
Ocasio-Cortez, attacking Crowley from the left, is just one of about a dozen candidates running on the slate of Brand New Congress, a political action committee founded by former Sanders staffers to elect more progressive members of Congress. She is the only member of Brand New Congress running from New York. A resident of the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester, Ocasio-Cortez organized Sanders’s campaign in the South Bronx — Hillary Clinton, heavily favored in New York City, won the Bronx handily — and started thinking seriously about running for Congress after Donald Trump’s election. She learned quickly that people usually didn’t even contemplate running against Crowley, let alone start an actual campaign.
“A lot of progressive groups are coming out of the woodwork. They’ve been trying to find a challenger to Crowley for years,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It’s literally political suicide for anyone with a semblance of a political career.”
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A lot of people might not like her platform here, but this woman is very intelligent and informed. In fact she may be the total package. Young, attractive and politically active, which is the main demo that the DNC establishment is pathetically trying to pander to by riling them up to protest against Trump in their lame version of "the resistance".
Crowley should be shitting in his pants like the rest of his taxpayer money robbing relatives.
And the Democratic machine will crush her, just like it did in Bernie.
If both of the Crowleys lose in the primaries I'm gonna start going back to church.
Good luck, machine politician who has never had a job, had to run a campaign. Was gifted his seat by Tom Manton. So blatantly machine powerful, he chooses to live and send his kids to school in suburban VA while allegedly representing NY.
She'll get crushed. To much voter suppression in NY. Until we have open primaries this machine hack and all others like him are here to stay.
JQ LLC, she could have marched alongside that odious terrorist in the Puerto Rican Day Parade on principle and I'd still vote for her over Crowley. Breaking the Queens machine should be first and foremost. We can deal with policy later.
JQ - the DNC actually is NOT trying to pander to this demographic, and that is why they keep losing. Your average working class democrat wants a true progressive agenda, not the clinton-style pandering to wall street of DeBlasio style pandering to the real estate industry.
The DNC actually has no fucking clue what actual resistance is or should be about. Trump is about to gut your health care today, and the DNC's just standing by shook and terrified because they have no plan whatsoever to reverse a course that is clearly only going to benefit the extremely wealthy.
Horrible, a communist in a city with a communist mayor. I am so out of this forgotten place..
"If both of the Crowleys lose in the primaries I'm gonna start going back to church" Your lips to God's ears, but if they both lose, I'm playing the lottery.
Anon, you really think the DNC would win more elections if they pander to Bernie Bros and Marxists? I think the typical Dem voter puts on the TV and sees black mask wearing Antifa thugs, hypocritical BLM cry babies, snowflake tantrums on college campuses (Berkley, Evergreen), Hollywood types calling them rubes and every other name in the book and says "no thanks". I'll take more Trump.
Oh great a Bernie Sanders person. Just what we need. Why cant a normal person who has common sense run?
Now I will say it again for EMPHASIS ADDED: No one needs to belong to any and all party-machine-failed duopolies in order to vote. That's why more than 43% of registered voters are now Independent. Bust up the duopoly, and start holding ALL publicly elected servants (not politicians), accountable for their public record conduct.
Because of brainwashing, social engineering and obscene party-machine-failed loyalties, these are the reasons for why a pathological, traitorous scourge like the Crowley dynasty were able to reign supreme for all of these unconscionable years, with ass wipe Tom Manton's blessing (kis the ring, and you will be king)!
Enough of this entrenched political bullshit, already before there isn't anything left of our already ravaged-and-tonsured Queens County to govern (and, by govern, I mean the never ending loop of political corruption, graft and greed)!
I checked out her picture. She is a hottie!
That helps in the Bronx. Not so much in Queens with its largely Asian population. The 6th NY district that borders a lot of this area has Grace Meng as its rep.
It also won't help with the population of largely elderly Irish and Italians.
Crowley likely the winner.
Dual irish & us citizen here, also half italian. She has my vote. I didn't know she is a she when I first read about her, and I frankly couldn't care what race, sex or color she is. I'd vote for nearly anyone against the Crowleys.
Anonymous said;
"Trump is about to gut your health care today, and the DNC's just standing by shook and terrified because they have no plan whatsoever..."
well I cant afford healthcare anymore and make too much for a subsidy.
Thanks Obama 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan'
LIE OF THE CENTURY
and don't talk to me about the republicans back room deals!
dems were invited to provide fixes for the failed Obamacare - their answer "resist we much".
remember Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it,”
and whatever crap the republicans stick us with, it's still Pelosi 's fault
Payback is a b!tch, just like nancy
as for Virginia Joe
may they eat their own
and burn through all their campaign contributors money
lets see how well the dems do, spending $40,000,000 one one congress seat
AND LOSING - LMFAO!
there may be enough commies & Bernie Bots in this city to knock Joe out
then she would be a freshman with no power and a minority party
if that happens I'll see you all at church a lot more often saying prayers of thanksgiving and putting money in the plate!
With Crowley's power over the Queens courts and the Board of Elections, she'll most likely have her signatures petitions tossed out.
Not yet lads, but soon.
Very soon.
Look at Nancy, Are the Dems about to make a lurch Right for Trump's base? That Dem Rep from LI fighting Nancy was a Republican a few years ago.
Hmmm..... what will happen to NY Dems? Its cat and mouse now with funding. Time is on Trump's side and this only accelerates it.
Crowley is an incompetent stuttering fool who takes 3 million in corporate money for his campaigns yet never had an opponent. Thank you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for stepping up.
I think it only fair that anyone who runs against Crowley also live in Virginia.
Crowley is an incompetent stuttering fool who takes 3 million in corporate money for his campaigns
AND THE COOL THING IS HE CAN SPEND THAT MONEY PRETTY MUCH ANY WAY HE LIKES AS LONG AS HE DOES NOT PERSONALLY BENEFIT FROM IT.
WONDER IF THIS INFO IS EVER MADE PUBLIC?
But, a vote for any and all persons infected by the two-party-machine-failed duopoly is a vote against your own self insterests, Queens Crappers!
A better plan of action would be to BOYCOTT all government bought henchmen themselves (and political hacks, all of whom are corporate fascist/terrorist owned and operated), until: (1) all dark money is legislated out of politics; (2) all Super PACS, Super-delegates, lobbyists and obscene gerrymandering practices are banished for life; (3) the Federal Reserve is abolished; (4) a redistribution of We, The People's stolen wealth is reestablished; (5) union busting and political corruption are legislated to be capital offenses, and a government that is: 'Of The People, By The People And For The People' is finally restored, reclaimed and reinforced.
Because, I don't take my marching orders from exalted, political hacks, nor will I ever be herded into political intolerant extremism, and ordered to vote against my own self interests——and, neither should anyone else.
Further, the entire Electoral College is so completely corrupt, that it's worse than many Third World countries, which is the final disgrace that continues to reinforce why I will no longer vote until all of the above are addressed, identified, recognized and remedied for the corruption, graft and greed that it is, and always HAS been——it's NOT NEGOTIABLE!
In the end, the right wing and the left wing are part of the same diseased bird!
But, a vote for any and all persons infected by the two-party-machine-failed duopoly is a vote against your own self insterests, Queens Crappers!
A better plan of action would be to BOYCOTT all government bought henchmen themselves (and political hacks, all of whom are corporate fascist/terrorist owned and operated), until: (1) all dark money is legislated out of politics; (2) all Super PACS, Super-delegates, lobbyists and obscene gerrymandering practices are banished for life; (3) the Federal Reserve is abolished; (4) a redistribution of We, The People's stolen wealth is reestablished; (5) union busting and political corruption are legislated to be capital offenses, and a government that is: 'Of The People, By The People And For The People' is finally restored, reclaimed and reinforced.
Because, I don't take my marching orders from exalted, political hacks, nor will I ever be herded into political intolerant extremism, and ordered to vote against my own self interests——and, neither should anyone else.
Further, the entire Electoral College is so completely corrupt, that it's worse than many Third World countries, which is the final disgrace that continues to reinforce why I will no longer vote until all of the above are addressed, identified, recognized and remedied for the corruption, graft and greed that it is, and always HAS been——it's NOT NEGOTIABLE!
In the end, the right wing and the left wing are part of the same diseased bird!
A better plan of action would be to BOYCOTT all government bought henchmen themselves (and political hacks, all of whom are corporate fascist/terrorist owned and operated), blah blah
SURE, STAY HOME AND LET THEM BRAG THAT 99.3 % OF THE PEOPLE WANT THEM.
Now, that is not what I said, last Anonymous, and perhaps you should reread my post. By using the word, BOYCOTT, I meant: activism, rally, protest and resistance——you know, the way college campuses took on all corrupt, government-imposing, corporate elitism and the usurped power and control that they have both managed to rip away from We, The People (remember? 'Of The People, By The People And For The People?')?
Lest you forget, it was voter silence and complicity (and the lowest voter turnouts in history), that FOISTED this cabal of intolerant extremism on to all of our citizenry in the first place. Stop birthing your own monsters, then, and take a stand and fight for the freedoms that are guaranteed to be ours, then——even if it means finally PUNCHING BACK, TWICE AS HARD!
And, if you remember nothing else from this thread, then remember this, because it's a known and proven truth: Life is a battle, my friend——and, if you do not enter it armed——then, surrender immediately!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Now, that is not what I said, last Anonymous, and perhaps you should reread my post. By using the word, BOYCOTT, I meant: activism, rally, protest and resistance——you know, the way college campuses took on all corrupt, government-imposing, corporate elitism and the usurped power and control that they have both managed to rip away from We, The People (remember? 'Of The People, By The People And For The People?')?
Lest you forget, it was voter silence and complicity (and the lowest voter turnouts in history), that FOISTED this cabal of intolerant extremism on to all of our citizenry in the first place. Stop birthing your own monsters, then! Better yet, stop voting in the same, intensely incompetent and corrupt, party-machine-failed robber barons, and take a stand and fight for the freedoms that are guaranteed to be ours, then——even if it means finally PUNCHING BACK, TWICE AS HARD!
And, if you remember nothing else from this thread, then remember this, because it's a known and proven truth: Life is a battle, my friend——and, if you do not enter it armed——then, surrender immediately!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
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