Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory over Rep. Joseph Crowley shocked New York political observers, in part because Crowley was thought to have a strong foothold in his native borough of Queens, where he is chairman of the county Democratic Party.
At first, it was assumed that demographic turnover in his district, which spans northwestern Queens and the northeastern Bronx, had harmed Crowley, as the Italian and Irish populations have been supplanted by Latinos and Asians.
Demographic turnover was indeed to blame for Crowley’s loss, but not the kind that was widely assumed. But some of the election districts in which Ocasio-Cortez performed best were in mostly white neighborhoods in western Queens. The congressman fell victim to gentrification and that force may upend expectations in Democratic primaries throughout Manhattan and western Brooklyn and Queens. And the rise of younger voters who are newer to their districts and unattached to incumbents could power insurgent candidates throughout New York City.
So you had your minions usher in all this development for tower people and the tower people voted against you. How deliciously ironic!
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So the Jewish gentrifiers that live in Astoria voted for the brown commie? That's not surprising at all honestly
Adult diaper sales will soar in November.
What's up with the racism on this board?
Maybe he should not of had a primary race in June and taken his electorate for granted?
"Jewish gentrifiers"? Have you been to astoria, anytime in say, the last 100 years?
These were normal young people who knew a garbage politician when they saw one, and voted him out. Pure and simple. Stop trying to come up with excuses for your failed boomer policies that have bankrupted this country.
Shitlibs like Crowley - we're coming for you. Racist dumb-asses, we're coming for you too.
Wait until the people who sat at home that Tuesday in June begin to have buyers remorse.
Who would elect a part time bartender/full time socialist to congress for them?
If Crowley had any brains he would be out getting his name on another line and run as in independent. He would be the odds on favorite!
Hail to the Swamp!
So?
The Dem Clubhousr will support their own minority stooge to beat her.
Wonder when the hipsters discover 'Arts Supporter' Van Bramer, 'Envirnmentalist' Costa, 'Empty Suit' Gianaris, and 'Mystery Woman' Simotas are the ciphers and place holders serving the interest of the Crowley machine.
Or that the local 'community' boards and the 'community' newspapers serve anything but the communities they are supposed to represent and the local 'civics' are pawns of the developers.
Look at the civics, organizations, community boards in the rest of the city to give you a hint as to the next step to go people. Stop being so dependent on myopic Queens.
She is an opening salvo but you need a revolution to make it stick.
"usher in all this development for tower people and the tower people voted against you"
Yep and can you believe these old over 50 "know it all" fucks living in private homes, many with firearm premises and the best healthcare on the taxpayer decide "whats best" for everybody else. Worse they call themselves and each other "the educated"
They are all gonna lose bigtime, November is going to be a slaughter for most incumbents over age 40. The young people had enough of the old politicians and all suit & tie stuffy bullshit.
Look at a map: Israel is in Asia but Sicily is in Africa.
"Who would elect a part time bartender/full time socialist to congress for them?"
Answer: A full time bartender/part time socialist.
-also include every welfare brat, hipster, millennials and now come November 1/2 million generation Z and illegal immigrant children with voting rights worse then all of the above combined.
Funny how now people now wake up ask WHAT HAPPENED?
Have so many been blind for past 20 years or just pretending not to see?
I dont think most over age 50 can comprehend or have a clue how bad we are fucked.
Crapper writes:
"So you had your minions usher in all this development for tower people and the tower people voted against you. How deliciously ironic!"
The nail hit squarely on its head!
(I'm still voting for Professor Anthony Pappas. Down with the Machine AND the collectivists!)
This is what happens when you are out of touch with your constituents. If he didn't live in Virginia he would realize this. He's a snake in the grass. Booze, rock bands, and voters don't mix.
I would be careful making predictions based on a small sample size. Remember only Democrats could vote in this primary as well.
Making sweeping conclusions based on incomplete and biased data? Isn't that how none of them saw Trump coming?
This is a Bernie Sanders victory most likely, if the article is accurate.
If I were Crowley I would be looking at a down ballot line to get my name on it. Think of it, he would call himself the Comeback Kid!
That is the stuff of legends!
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Blogger Tony Notaro said...
So the Jewish gentrifiers that live in Astoria voted for the brown commie? That's not surprising at all honestly
One of the most racist statements on this blog in a long time, and there's a lot of competition.......
Jews left Astoria in the sixties. Have you ever been to Bowne Park on a hot afternoon to watch the squaws feed the turtles and geese to their brood and bathe in the public restrooms?
@anonymous
I was in Astoria on Sunday. These "young people" you mention are Jewish leftists, so I stick by my original statement. And what a nice way to stereotype with your "failed boomer policies" comment. I thought leftist retards like yourself HATE stereotypes. I'm not a boomer but my parents are. As for "failed boomer policies" I can name a few off of the top of my head...The Civil Rights Act(s) of 57 and 64, The Voting Rights Act, The Immigration and Nationality Reform Act of 1965, The Fair Housing Act...have I triggered you yet moron? And if you're really serious about going after racists, maybe you out to look at your black and brown friends. THEY'RE THE MOST TRIBAL, ETHNOCENTRIC PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET. Maybe if you step out of your bubble, you'd see it. Jerkoff
White voters? Check again. The Hispanics don't consider them selves White.
Crowley turned his back on his own.
If he's going to get on another line he better get moving.
Alas, the ancient, two-party-machine-failed duopoly and empire-racket is finally crumbling from the crushing weight of its own corruption, graft and kleptocratic greed. If Giulaini stopped the pulse of this worn out, ravaged-and-tonsured city, and Bloomberg murdered it altogether, then de BLASS-hole has driven a stake through this mummified corpse of a metropolis.
Face it, peasants: The future of New York City is what has already occurred in San Francisco (and other parts of the world, i.e., sanctuary cities like Vancouver, London, Caracas, etc.), and here is why:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/08/san-franciscos-crisis-looks-like-new-yorks-future/
Why the racist and jewish comment?
It amazes me that people think it's ok to make comments like this.
>>Blogger Tony Notaro said...
So the Jewish gentrifiers that live in Astoria voted for the brown commie?
>Jewish gentrifiers that live in Astoria
Did you confuse Astoria with Forest Hills or something? At least get your racism straight FFS.
Nice theory but the millennials don't vote and especially not in Astoria and the Queens bits and pieces in the bi-borough NY14. Do they even bother to learn where the polling places are? Any Hispanic who saw those posters voted for AOC - and I saw a lot of her posters. For all his rhetoric, Joe was not delivering the goods to the geezers who vote. Manton handed the district to him on a silver platter and it's never been a challenge for he in the past to get re-elected.
Hahah lovely....Yeah the hipsters voted against him... hopefully they will also pay the brunt of the taxes when this chick pushes through all of hers and Bernie's socialist agenda (tongue in cheek, that will never happen either).
Where is the Republican candidate and where is the Rnc?
Fell victim to gentrification is the smaller account of it.
He was an ass and the people simply had enough bullshit with the Crowleys. His sister (cousin ?) pushing an old woman and the other fighting with people at meetings was the last straw that sunk his voting base.
The people had enough, his ouster is the sound of a freight train coming down the mountain. And I don't need City & State or the Daily news telling me its a bird, its a plane or superman. The democrats are in for chaos on a scale then never seen.
Id say the machine has 4 months to live because almost every gear and greased bearing is going get cracked.
Well, Ocasio is going to be the same way...she's already got her eyes set on the national stage...she won't be hanging out in the 14th CD except for photo ops with Hispanics now
The people had enough, his ouster is the sound of a freight train coming down the mountain. And I don't need City & State or the Daily news telling me its a bird, its a plane or superman. The democrats are in for chaos on a scale then never seen.
Id say the machine has 4 months to live because almost every gear and greased bearing is going get cracked
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As goes the machine - so goes Vallonia. Say good-bye to every politician in western Queens.
AMEN!
I don't know why the press keeps calling this an upset victory. He shoulda been flushed years ago. The Democratic part has split in New York and couldn't protect Crowley any longer. I'm no Lefty, but good for Ocasio. The two parties are old and tired, time to shake it up. If not from the outside then from the inside.
I don't know why the press keeps calling this an upset victory. He shoulda been flushed years ago.
I GUESS YOU KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT QUEENS. ITS VERY MUCH LIKE A SOUTHERN PLANTATION. THEY RESPECT AUTHORITY FIGURES THERE - AND HAVE OVERSEERS TO METE PUNISHMENT
TO DISAGREE WITH AN AUTHORITY FIGURE MAKES YOU A PERSON OF BAD CHARACTER - THE TRADITION OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY HAS VERY SHALLOW ROOTS THERE.
THIS IS ENTIRELY THE RESULT OF THE NEW PEOPLE WHO ARE, ALAS, TRANSIENT AND FICKLE.
Corey Johnson, the dancing Speaker and crowned by Party Boss Crowley and Diaz Sr needs to boogie down out.
So Crowley will become a well paid lobbyist.
Update: Virginia Joe still on Working Families line and says he can’t remove it!
Comeback kid!
Hasn’t conceded!
Not over yet!!
@john
ain't it GREAT?
enjoy.
>I dont think most over age 50 can comprehend or have a clue how bad we are fucked.
Why would they? They're the ones who fucked us, and most of them will be dead before their actions completely fuck over Gen X/Y/Z.
Let it role. Take out Shumer and Cuomo, and start over.
How bad could the next family political dynasties be? any more corrupt, any more blind? Do we have to wait decades for change (I mean - bad health making a pol resign, or a good old NY sex scandal). I guess these two are uniks. Cross out the scandal possibility, back to removal by poor health. Way to long a time for change.
Let's go for it in November.
Update: Virginia Joe still on Working Families line and says he can’t remove it!
Comeback kid! Hasn’t conceded! Not over yet!!
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Then he is back in and her support will disappear like, well, snowflakes.
Why would they? They're the ones who fucked us, and most of them will be dead before their actions completely fuck over Gen X/Y/Z.
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No-- Gen X/Y/Z fucked themselves, especially generation Y and Z progressively worse in that order.
if your the average Millennial I doubt you even know what capitalism, earned income and earned privilege is.
Instead of getting an education for something useful generation Z chooses to study useless bullshit liberal arts like hip hop, music and dancing and now wants to blame everybody else because nobody will pay them for any of those so called crafts
In debt up to your ass for that college loan for music production, singing, dancing or finger-paint ?
Go get your money back from the teachers and schools who sold you a scam and stole it. Also blame you parents for making the MTV and Disney channel your baby sitting brainwasher wile they were getting stoned.
The future isn't going to be pretty when you brats go crazy and set our city's a blaze and some old vet over 50 tags you in the ass
Want my Corvette, how about house too
Go back to school or take an apprentice job in a useful $125+ an hour skill like plumbing, electrician, CDL truck driving, antidepressant chemist. Then buy what you want with a feeling of great accomplishment and self worth.
I had nothing as a kid in Bushwick, we ate stale bread, pastas and nasty polenta and scrapped metal and garbage to buy oil for heat during winter. -No college at all
I don't want to hear this "GIVE ME" "GIVE ME IM ENTITLED" stinkin bullshit nonsense.
“Crowley decided not to give Ocasio-Cortez and the WFP respect by allowing us to put Ocasio-Cortez on our ballot line,” New York WFP executive director Bill Lipton said in a statement. “WFP is giving all we have to electing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive insurgents all across the nation.
The only remaining way for Crowley to do the right thing is to switch his residency to Virginia, where his family resides and his children already go to school. It would fix the problem he created in an instant.
Queens County Democrats practically wrote the book on election law so it’s hard to imagine they don’t know that there are standard procedures to remove a candidate from the ballot that have been approved by the New York State Court of Appeals.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/ocasio-cortez-and-crowley-feud-weeks-after-he-conceded.html
He also has now delayed meeting with her 3 times to publicly support her.
This guys is a true assw!pe.
Yo Tony Notaro, you’re just another anti Semite corrupting this blog. You can’t possibly know the background of all these hipsters who live in Astoria. Stop using this very informative blog as your platform for your seething hatred.
Queens County Democrats are finished, I play music and know many of these young people who refer to our politicians as "old fucks fucking us" Many actually like Trump now, many are picking up on the fact many of the jerks you see on TV are paid professional protesters. Yes somebody or people are paying them to disrupt and get news camera attention.
A big change is coming.
This pack of developers & old buddy buddy politicians sitting in a circle running Queens with hands in each others laps are in for a shock.
4 more months then bye bye forever.
Hopefully DeBlasios ass is next !!
Republicans have it no better and need find young good looking candidates who will offer free stuff if they expect to hold any seat, ever again. These old Irishmen running the House & Senate look like complete 1/2 senile fools, like Pelosi.
This new voting base does not care how smart it candidates are they are or what they did in the past. They just want all these old people in suits & ties out of office. They hate them.
>I was in Astoria on Sunday. These "young people" you mention are Jewish leftists, so I stick by my original statement.
Do you reside in an alternate universe or something? The hipsters of Astoria are transplants from middle America, a homologous mass of people proudly expressing their individuality by all wearing the same trendy styles, sporting the same trendy haircuts, and spouting the same trendy political ideas.
The ones who are descended from Jews are indistinguishable from all the rest of their lot, no cultural or ethnic Jewish signifiers to be seen. Why would you even think or assume they're Jewish?
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>Instead of getting an education for something useful generation Z chooses to study useless bullshit liberal arts like hip hop, music and dancing and now wants to blame everybody else because nobody will pay them for any of those so called crafts
Typical arrogant, ignorant Boomer comments from someone who has no idea what life is like for younger generations. The truth is, our generations don't have the opportunity to major in the liberal arts, (except for some of the aforementioned hipster trust fund kiddies) since all the jobs in those fields were destroyed by the greediness and shortsightedness of the Boomers. And now those same Boomers are closing down liberal arts departments in colleges and universities left and right, and funneling everyone into STEM, the only fields that still offer jobs aside from the minimum wage service sector that your generation left us with.
http://www.karenmichalson.com/the-traditional-defenses-of-the-humanities-are-dead-and-everybody-knows-it-a-humble-suggestion-in-support-of-humanities-education-part-2/
>In debt up to your ass for that college loan for music production, singing, dancing or finger-paint ?
Thank heavens for CUNY, so we can get though college on $20,000 for 4 years, instead of $20,000 for one semester
>Go back to school or take an apprentice job in a useful $125+ an hour skill like plumbing, electrician, CDL truck driving, antidepressant chemist.
Ahahaha, you can't get into one of those training programs unless you got family and connections in the unions. And those jobs are disappearing fast, thanks to being undercut by the endless illegal immigration your generation encouraged so that you wouldn't have to pay a living wage to your gardener and housekeeper. Meanwhile, our generation can't afford to buy a house or even rent an apartment, and you lot do your best to keep anyone from building enough in NYC to bring the prices down to affordability.
Not so fast - look at all those communty and cultural groups that get money from 'tha man' - waterfront, bike, some of the newer faces on the community board, the watering-holes that the hipshits go to (many money laundering for 'the boys') ....
so the machine can command a lot of the hipster movers and shakers to do their bidding.
Gino sez nobody will pay them for any of those so called crafts ?
That’s bullshit? Also stick to the real issue and problem: LOUSY VOTING HABITS and CROOKS.
Gino, you sir are insulting!!
I have a street performer permit and often play in front the M station evening rush hour make $120 in an hour. My boyfriend made me this powerful little amplifier out of an old boom box that uses laptop battery's so I can go anywhere for which I am greatful. I’m not to happy with these old Polish men ignoring the tip tray and trying to stuff $5 bills down my pants but its at least its honest work and I’m not homeless, not on welfare, never been.
I also walk dogs, sing, do voice over work, go shopping for old people, whatever it takes.
I am very displeased with Gino who is I guess some Italian racist plumber and his apocalyptic scowl. I bet Mussolini Joe and he are related.
Gino, take Bushwick for and example: That former discard of 19 century tenements’ owned by predominantly old Krout and Jewish slumlords whose grandparents Yaakov and Golda would have slapped them side the head for allowing such a mess to happen. Include the perpetual lousy voting habits.
Artists saved that dump and made them very rich people when it became bohemian back about eight years ago, replete with people-watching art galleries and studios (Arts in Bushwick produces $$ making neighborhood art festivals, including the Bushwick Open Studios), super-hipster restaurants with wood-fired pizzas even pistachio ice cream tapped fresh from a batch freezer. For others tastes how about some southern-comfort cuisine or more high-profile joints like Hana Food and Circo’s Pastry Shop, snappy shops along Wyckoff Avenue —all the bars and a hot-and-happening nightlife. All the garbage driven out !!
How much $$ did Gino make plumbing all that stuff, I bet million over the past 8 years not including all the other goombas, cumpan contractors and comare now driving fancy cars yet bitching about everything
Hey, housing stock now includes large lofts and apartments carved from industrial buildings, warehouses (read high ceilings, exposed brick and walls of oversized windows) and even old grocery stores.
Its gotten expensive because its beautiful and not some barren deserted salt flat anytime after 9PM in Queens.
Try spending an evening on foot, walk around, hit some bars, have fun, let loose before you explode or have a heart attack !
Same goes for Corona which I predict will be next hotspot (and likely the biggest) you just watch.
...anyone see Cool Hand Luke?
"...what we've got here is a failure to communicate..."
Gino is right, the Millennials have a skewed view of reality that comes from watching too many Friends reruns and suffering from a collective addiction to social media.
With their eyes glued to their "smart" phones all day and posing for selfies to construct their own reality show on a daily basis, what time is there to develop the skills needed to make it in a world filled with the hungry and lean...
et tu Brute?
All one needs to know is that they actually think Socialism is a viable option, even as the reeking pile of dung that Venezuela has become still smolders in the corner.
The best prescription for this generation of Beta males and gender-neutral females is a weekend binge-watching some Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson movies, along with a bottle of Rye Whiskey.
"I had nothing as a kid in Bushwick, we ate stale bread, pastas and nasty polenta and scrapped metal and garbage to buy oil for heat during winter. -No college at all
I don't want to hear this "GIVE ME" "GIVE ME IM ENTITLED" stinkin bullshit nonsense."
Similarly, I had nothing as a kid in East New York, we ate a lot of rice and cheap cuts of meat while living in a storefront with a stall shower and toilet in the back. Our heat came from an orange glowing box plugged into a 110 volt outlet. Hey, it was home though, and better than getting shot in front of the corner bodega selling blue tops.
I played the game as it was set up though, graduated high school, avoided the drug route, went to college and got my degrees in something useful and practical. The hard way...taking loans, getting scholarships and working the whole time. I didn't ask what was owed to me, I worked to earn it!
The 20 somethings of today, actually think it's just supposed to be handed to them because they see these people making a fortune posting videos of their ass implants on Instagram or because their idiot professors told them the game is "rigged".
Take it from Flavor Flav...."don't believe the hype"
Harry Haller
The hipsters of Astoria are transplants from middle America, a homologous mass of people proudly expressing their individuality by all wearing the same trendy styles, sporting the same trendy haircuts, and spouting the same trendy political ideas.
Lol. I like that line,reminds me of the lyric from Quadrophenia "Ain't it funny how we all seem to look same"
"homologous mass of people proudly expressing their individuality"
Yes dumbass cow fuckers make up shit then copy all the shit from each other.
The college professors have made one fine mess of young minds, may god help us when we are old.
Same shit just happened in California--Dianne Feinstein out, another young anti ICE and free stuff Socialist in!!
This country is in deep DEEP shit.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article214913325.html
>Same shit just happened in California--Dianne Feinstein out, another young anti ICE and free stuff Socialist in!! This country is in deep DEEP shit.
Are you kidding? That's a good sign. If she loses the election, that's one less corrupt, entrenched incumbent holding the party back. I don't like socialism, but young hungry new blood in office is better than the same failures who've led to the Republicans controlling 2/3rds of the country and all 3 branches of federal government.
Who's crazy?
If progressives take the house and senate we will be another Germany or Venezuela. Only worse because we wont have ICE or borders and lose the right to guns and private property.
Are people crazy ?
I just hope Trump gets that republican supreme court judge seated by November or kiss the US Constitution, your home, 401K, social Security and bank account goodbye.
The bastards will also ban cash and socialize every asset of value you own.
SOB bank manager tried to scan my drivers license photo today, they have these new sneaky scanners at these help desks. (Bank of America)
Never let your drivers license leave your hand anyplace, these new scanners will harvest your info and photo just placing it near the counter. !!!!!
Yes these new terminals at bank scan everything near them, nothing needs to be swiped !!! Big brother is getting smarter and faster and will soon be all facial recognition metadata that can be sold. Banks call it shared with partners and those people partners like advertising E billboards and things.
Bought air sneakers with your card or liked on Facebook recently ?
Walk past a camera in Times Square, Macys and have "air sneakers on sale" pop up on a E-billboard.--Or get arrested for your hate speech on social media.
That's already the direction we been going with these current fucking progressives and young blood communists in office !!
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